[Lgpolicy] Book - Sociolinguistics of Protesting

[Francis M. Hult via Lgpolicy]

Title: Sociolinguistics of Protesting
Volume 1: Embodied Histories, Imagined Worlds, Emplaced Resistance
Volume 2: Colonial Ideologies, Indigeneity, Anti-Racist Discourses
Editors:  Ashraf Abdelhay, Sinfree Makoni, and Cristine Severo
Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
Date of Publication: 2026
URL (volume 1):
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110770537/html
URL (volume 2):
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110770520/html

Summary:
Volume 1 critically rethinks protest as a central sociolinguistic practice
rather than an exception to an imagined social order. Drawing on
transdisciplinary and various case studies – from the Arab revolutions to
Hong Kong’s Lennon Walls and South Africa’s student uprisings – this volume
explores how language, embodiment, and space intersect in acts of
resistance. It is the first of a two-volume set that reshapes the field’s
understanding of language in times of crisis and uprising.

In Volume 2, scholars explore the complex intersections between protest,
language, and decolonial thought. It challenges dominant linguistic
ideologies by uncovering how language is wielded, contested, and reimagined
in protests against racial, gendered, and colonial violence. From Black
feminist activism in the U.S. to anti-mining movements in South Africa and
pandemic protests in Chile, the chapters examine how diverse (embodied)
linguistic practices resist dominant power structures and give voice to
marginalized communities.
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