[Linganth] CfP Securitisation, surveillance & sociolinguistics (SS24 July 2022)

[Daniel Silva]

Dear colleagues,


Apologies for crossposting. Please find below a call for papers for the
Sociolinguistics Symposium 24, to be held in ghent, 13-16 july, 2022.

Many thanks, Daniel.




Call for Papers for 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
<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F33687581%2FWP213_Charalambous_2017_Sociolinguistics_and_security_A_bibliography&data=04%7C01%7CMieke.Vandenbroucke%40uantwerpen.be%7C78ae36a05da94169790108d942a5e224%7C792e08fb2d544a8eaf72202548136ef6%7C0%7C0%7C637614102532021300%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=46BpJ8mjEckzrQO9kJ30QhqDd7YLbVreZ5WjHFvUru0%3D&reserved=0>
 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.



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.


Daniel N. Silva
Professor at UFSC/PIPGLA-UFRJ, CNPq Fellow
CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0522724697395740
Texts: https://ufsc.academia.edu/DanielSilva
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