[Linganth] Linguistic Anthropology Lessons on Black Lives Matter and Police Violence

[gregory morton]

Hello, everyone,
      Thank you for this fascinating and very, very helpful discussion!
         I just wanted to add a tangential idea. Summerson Carr has a great paper about "anticipatory interpellation," which she defines as "reading how one is hailed as a particular kind of institutional subject and responding as such." 

        The paper doesn't directly address police violence and it predates Black Lives Matter. But it strikes me that "anticipatory interpellation" is a powerful framework through which to interpret the hands up -- don't shoot gesture. (In raising one's hands, one anticipates the way the police will address oneself-- and responds as scripted.) At any rate, all of this does add an interesting twist to Althusser's example of interpellation as hailing by the police. 

      To boot, Summerson's paper offers a striking reading of language politics among social workers. It might make for a nice addition to an upper-level ling anth class on BLM and governmental uses of language in the contemporary US.
              Am very glad to see all of these ideas on the list!
                                  -Duff Morton

Carr, Summerson. "Anticipating and inhabiting institutional identities." American Ethnologist 36.2 (2009): 317-336.
https://ssascholars.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/e-carr/files/j.1548-1425.2009.01137.x_0.pdf
 

    On Saturday, September 24, 2016 9:52 PM, "nilep at ilas.nagoya-u.ac.jp" <nilep at ilas.nagoya-u.ac.jp> wrote:
 

 I've listed the recommendations here:
http://teach.linguisticanthropology.org/2016/09/25/black-lives-matter-and-police-violence/
-Chad

2016-09-25 00:52 に Michele Koven が書きました:
> Dear all,
>
> Very helpful suggestions. Could we have these posted to the SLA
> website or some other prominent site, to make these suggestions more
> widely?available and searchable?
>
> Best,
>
> Michele
>
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>>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Berman, Elise
>>>> <eberman at uncc.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I teach at UNC Charlotte, around a mile away from where the
>>>>> man was
>>>>> killed on Tuesday. I am teaching introduction to linguistic
>>>>> anthropology this semester, and I planned the whole syllabus
>>>>> around
>>>>> getting students to apply linguistic anthropological ideas
>>>>> (language
>>>>> diversity, language and identity, language and power,
>>>>> ideologies,
>>>>> etc.) by analyzing the language gap hypothesis. So I had
>>>>> planned to
>>>>> spend a lot of time talking about the relationship between
>>>>> language
>>>>> and inequality, but had not intended to explicitly connect
>>>>> these
>>>>> discussions to police violence.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, however, I think I need to talk about police violence
>>>>> (and next
>>>>> week, even though in the class we are still on language
>>>>> structure). I
>>>>> was wondering if anyone had planned specific lessons on
>>>>> police
>>>>> violence and black lives matter in linguistic anthropology
>>>>> classes and
>>>>> would be willing to share what they did? There are obviously
>>>>> a lot of
>>>>> different connections, but I am having some difficulty
>>>>> thinking about
>>>>> how to incorporate them into the schedule/conceptual and
>>>>> skill
>>>>> development activities that I had already planned.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>> Elise

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