32.2387, Calls: Socioling/Belgium

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Subject: 32.2387, Calls: Socioling/Belgium

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 13:41:48
From: Mieke Vandenbroucke [mieke.vandenbroucke at uantwerpen.be]
Subject: Securitisation and Surveillance in Sociolinguistics

 
Full Title: Securitisation and Surveillance in Sociolinguistics 

Date: 13-Jul-2022 - 16-Jul-2022
Location: University of Ghent, Belgium 
Contact Person: Mieke Vandenbroucke
Meeting Email: mieke.vandenbroucke at uantwerpen.be
Web Site: https://ss24ghent.be/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

Invited Panel at Sociolinguistics Symposium 24 (13-16 July 2022) on
''Securitisation and Surveillance in Sociolinguistics'' 

Mieke Vandenbroucke (University of Antwerp), Daniel N. Silva (Universidade
Federal de Santa Catarina), Ben Rampton (King’s College London)

Driven by claims and suspicions that particular groups or phenomena present an
existential threat that calls for special measures, securitization and
surveillance are hard to ignore in contemporary life. Socio- and applied
linguists are now engaging with these processes in a number of sites where the
notion of an ‘enemy’ and/or acute physical insecurity feature prominently.
This includes not only conflict zones and post-conflict education but also
migration and asylum, social and mass media (see Charalambous 2017 for a
review). The question arises: are these only niche interests? Or do the links
between securitization, security surveillance, language ideology and
communicative practice need to be drawn more fully into mainstream
sociolinguistics, showing up in, for example, undergraduate textbooks, with
(in)securitization as prominent as standardization in accounts of
sociolinguistic differentiation?

Over the years, the broad field of sociolinguistics has demonstrated that
language difference often maps into social inequality. With growing global
securitization and surveillance, we need to consider the manner and extent to
which linguistic difference and hierarchisation undergird the practices that
categorise social groups as threats. Where and how is language used to justify
violent measures to tackle people framed as “enemies”? And where and how do
these measures stifle communicative practices associated with subjects and
groups seen as sources of insecurity or violence?

Bringing together empirical studies of how communicative practice and language
ideology connect with (in)securitization and surveillance across a range of
contemporary (or historical) sites, this panel seeks to:
 - chart some of the changing intersections of language, securitization and
security surveillance (including Covid-19)
 - examine language regimes and rationalities underpinning frameworks of
securitization, including public security, citizen security, militarized
security, de-securisation and digital securitization
 - identify theoretical and methodological commonalities
 - reflect on the implications for the political positioning of
sociolinguist(ic)s  
 - assess the significance of all this for sociolinguistics more generally.


Call for Papers: 

We are now inviting contributions to this panel, involving a series of 20
minute presentations + 10 minutes of Q&A (potentially in a hybrid digital and
on-site format). If you would like to participate, no later than Wednesday 15
September, 2021, please send us an abstract of no more than 500 words,
indicating:
 - the title of your paper
 - the project(s) it draws on
 - its central focus and location
 - key theoretical reference points
 - methods of data collection and analysis
 - (preliminary) findings and potential significance
 - your name, contact details, position and institution

Please send your abstract to mieke.vandenbroucke at uantwerpen.be by September
15, 2021.




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