[Linganth] AAA CfP: Literacy Pedagogy & Political Activism

[James Meador]

Dear ling anthro folks,

Yukun Zeng and I are looking for a last minute addition to our AAA panel in
advance of the deadline next Weds. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me
if you're interested or if you have any questions.

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Tacit Futures: Literacy Pedagogy as Political Activism and Implicit Social
Action


How do activists build political futures by teaching people how to read?
Socialization to text always possesses a future orientation, leading
students along an arc of skill acquisition into a community of practice.
Some literacy pedagogy projects make no claims that their work is
political, others advance specific claims about the political change they
effect. The papers of this panel seek to understand something distinct from
both of these kinds of claims about literacy projects. They seek to
understand how activists advance their political projects through semiotic
labor that makes futures, rather than just describing them. This panel's
papers approach literacy pedagogy as a form of social action centered on
texts without being reducible to their contents or to statements about
them. How then does denotationally implicit semiosis figure in political
projects to reconfigure the social world through literacy? What does it
mean, semiotically speaking, to build a tacit future through text?


Choksi, Nishaant. "From Language to Script: Graphic practice and the
politics of authority in Santali-language print media, eastern India." Modern
Asian Studies 51, no. 5 (2017): 1519-1560.

Cody, Francis. "Daily wires and daily blossoms: cultivating regimes of
circulation in Tamil India's newspaper revolution." Journal of Linguistic
Anthropology 19, no. 2 (2009): 286-309.

Debenport, Erin. "Continuous perfectibility: Pueblo propriety and the
consequences of literacy." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 22, no. 3
(2012): 201-219.
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