[Linganth] Emmaus movement on the blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà discusses her book, *Community,
Solidarity and Multilingualism in a Transnational Social Movement: A
Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Emmaus *with Maryam Amiri.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: *Community, solidarity and multilingualism in a transnational
social movement* presents a critical sociolinguistic ethnography of the
Emmaus movement that analyses linguistic and discursive practices in two
local communities in order to provide insight into solidarity discourses
and transnational communication more broadly. Integrating perspectives from
a range of disciplines, the monograph seeks to understand the ways in which
social movements are maintained across disparate communities grounded in
shared cultural referents and communicative practices but not necessarily a
shared language. The book focuses on Emmaus, the solidarity movement that
emerged in post-war France which brings formerly marginalised people
together with others looking for an alternative lifestyle into live-in
communities dedicated to recycling work and social projects.

The book first offers a historical overview of the Emmaus movement more
generally, moving into an account of its development and spread across
national and linguistic borders. The volume draws on data from two Emmaus
communities in Barcelona and London to analyse the everyday communicative
and discursive practices that appropriate and resignify the shared
transnational movement ideas in different socio-political, economic,
historical and linguistic contexts.

*Community, solidarity and multilingualism in a transnational social
movement* considers the social implications of local practices on the
situated (re)production and evolution of transnational social movements
more generally and will be of particular interest to students and
researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse
studies, cultural studies, and sociology.
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