[Edling] LPReN Symposium at AILA 2017

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AILA 2017
Proposal for the LPReN Symposium to be held during AILA 2017
Multilingual Frontiers: An Emerging Politics of Southern Linguistics

We invite proposals for papers for the LPReN Symposium at AILA 2017
Please send the following by September 1, 2016 to LPReN at cal.org<mailto:LPReN at cal.org>
Title: Please give the title of the paper as it should appear in the program (max 20 words).
Abstract Text: Please provide an abstract (max 300 words, not including references).
Keywords: Please provide a maximum of three (3) keywords

Background:
Increasingly, there are calls within the academy for a process of decolonisation of both subject matter and instructional/pedagogical practices. Such calls have been most vocal in recent years in the academies of the traditional geopolitical South, such as those of South Africa, Latin America and India. However, even the academies of the North are critically weighing alternatives to the dominance of academic literature rooted in claims of universal relevance and decontextualized epistemic discourses. This arises from a growing awareness of the challenges to 'Enlightenment' thought and northern 'canons' of knowledge - challenges that have been evident for some time in claims and critiques of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) (e.g. Smith 1999; Hountondji 2013; Odora Hoppers 2002). Such claims resurface and are reconfigured in 'southern theory' (Connell 2007), 'southern epistemologies' (Santos 2012), 'de-coloniality' (e.g. Kusch [1970]2010; Mignolo 2011; Escobar and Mignolo 2013), and contested claims of the ownership of and the production of knowledge (Medina 2014).

The search for decolonial alternatives is gathering momentum at the same time that global patterns of migration and human mobility are altering linguistic, cultural and religious landscapes in visibly tangible ways (e.g. Gorter and Shohamy 2009). These bring into contemporary relief what appear to some in northern settings as 'super diversity' (Vertovec 2007) and 'complex diversity' (Kraus 2012), echoing diversities in the south. These developments force a recognition that scales of student diversity require curricula that offer equitable linguistic and epistemic access, and that are sensitive to local, national, regional and international ecologies of diversities (e.g. de Souza and Andreotti 2009). Above all, a heightened appreciation of global diversity reveals how, in most settings, universities have followed curricula framed on northern epistemologies and conceptualisations of language and society as reflected in only 4% of the world's 'language' communities. The extent to which the nuances of competing epistemologies, ontologies and cosmologies are obscured or altered in the process of linguistic shrinkage has not yet been fully explored from a theoretical lens framed within contexts of diversities and multilingualisms. A paradox is that the trends towards homogenization and uniformity continue at a time of great global diversity.

The resurfacing of discourses of linguistic diversity, brings questions of the nature of heterogeneity and heterogeneous ways of thinking to the surface. This panel will explore decolonial efforts in the academy that consider the politics of language together with epistemic access. In contexts that continue to suppress diversity (see, Wiley et al. 2014), the panel is an invitation to debate and reimagine what it is that southern or de-colonial multilingualisms might bring to the fields of applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, and possibly also to the broader decolonial project.

We thus invite proposals for papers for the LPReN Symposium at AILA 2017, and we welcome contributions that engage with multilingual frontiers in dialogue with southern perspectives of theory.

Please send the following by September 1, 2016 to LPReN at cal.org<mailto:LPReN at cal.org>
Title: Please give the title of the paper as it should appear in the program (max 20 words).

Abstract Text: Please provide an abstract (max 300 words).

Keywords: Please provide a maximum of three (3) keywords

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