35.1931, Calls: GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology 2024

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Subject: 35.1931, Calls: GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology 2024

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Date: 28-Jun-2024
From: Nhan Huynh [glocal at soas.ac.uk]
Subject: GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology 2024

Full Title: GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology 2024
Short Title: GLOCAL AFALA 2024

Date: 04-Dec-2024 - 07-Dec-2024
Location: University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
Contact Person: Nhan Huynh
Meeting Email: glocal at soas.ac.uk
Web Site: https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/afala2024/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2024

Meeting Description:

Official Website
- https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/afala2024/cfp/

Main Hosts
- University of South Africa, and the GLOCAL, SOAS, University of
London

Purpose and Structure
- Over 400 scholars globally will present papers and engage in
progressive discussion on the Linguistic Anthropology, Language and
Society, Sociolinguistics (and related fields) of Africa. The SOAS
GLOCAL is a fully Non-Profit unit.

Chronotope
- The University of South Africa, Pretoria, December 4-7,  2024

Theme
- The GLOCAL AFALA 2024 theme, Code and Commodification, as the New
Decolonization, "Ikhodi kanye Nokuthengisa njenge decolonization
Entsha," describes a process deeply connected to the commodification
of language and cultural identities throughout African regions, as
fertile climates for Linguistic Anthropological attention. The GLOCAL
AFALA 2024 invites work that addresses the decolonization of African
contexts through the complex appropriation of language and cultural
code. The conference committee invites abstracts and proposals
addressing the contribution of cultural and linguistic mixing to the
decolonization of African, and the pinpointing of truths on identity,
ethnicity, and nation, and a culturally complex Africa.

Conference Format
- General Papers (400+)
- Interviews (30+)
- Poster Presentations (150+)
- Methodology / Analysis Workshops (Endangered Languages Network,
Globally Prominent Scholars)
- Talks
- Keynotes
- Anthropological Excursion
- Cultural Performances
- Anthropological Exhibitions
- Linguistics Exhibitions
- Displays

Publications
- Ample assistance is provided to revise papers.
- Proceedings book (SCOPUS / ISI (AHCI / SSCI / CPCI) indexed),
contingent upon passing review criteria

Anthropological Excursion
- Full day excursion on December 7, 2024, the final day

Following us:
- Academia: https://soas.academia.edu/GLOCALSOAS
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesoasglocal

Call for Papers:

URL for abstract submissions:
https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/afala2024/submit

Theme:
Code and Commodification, as the New Decolonization
Ikhodi kanye Nempahla, njenge-Decolonization Entsha

The African context is complex, a cultural diversity that far exceeds
its geographical expanse. These diverse cultural scapes throughout the
African continent and African diaspora globally overlap, yet so do
African languages, dialects, sociolects, and genres. The infinitely
diverse semiotics of these languages complexify that which is already
complex.

Central to this complexity of African languages, language varieties,
and ethnoscapes, is the ubiquitous mixing of language and cultural
codes, which form the materiality of African identities. Sociocultural
code-mixing can be contested, yet language code mixing is widely seen
as mandatory, to embody progressive, liberal, and anti-conformist
African ideologies. Speakers language code mixing ubiquitously across
African contexts, creating a commodity with which to legitimize
emergent identities, in acts of decolonization, subverting
essentialist representaitons of an old and new African cultural
heritage and language practices, while drawing on millennia of
transition and transformation.

Through the complexity of language code mixiing, the speaker seeks to
commodify cultural affordances, and in the process, to decolonize both
region and mindset, as an interrogation of colonialist ideologies, and
as a critical act of cultural and linguistic liberation. Such a
liberation continuously re-emerges in the uniqueness of every African
linguistic code, as a situated performance through which to reinvent
each language variety as a fluid language scape. The mixing of
language and cultural code is now a normative practice across African
contexts, as vital to an African politics of identity, and yet, it is
complexified by new mobilities, technologies, migration, modalities,
rewritten historiographies, colonized cum decolonized ideologies,
scholarship, and so forth.

This complexity of African cultural and linguistic practice makes for
a fertile ethnography. Through the tools of linguistic cultural
anthropology, then, we can reframe such an ethnography of the
commodification of code and cultural context, to ground understandings
of the decolonization of Africa.

The GLOCAL AFALA 2024 theme,

Code and Commodification, as the new Decolonization
Ikhodi kanye Nempahla, njenge-Decolonization entsha

describes a process deeply connected to the commodifucation of
language and cultural identities throughout African regions, as
fertile climates for Linguistic Anthropological attention. Here, the
GLOCAL AFALA 2024 invites work that addresses the decolonization of
African contexts through the complex appropriation of language and
cultural code. To this, the conference selection committee invites
abstracts and proposals addressing the contribution of cultural and
linguistic mixing to the current decolonization of African, that is,
the pinpointing of truths on identity, ethnicity, and nation, and a
culturally complex Africa.

While proposals and submission must adhere to the theme Code and
Commodification, as the new Decolonization, submissions can diversify
the conversation through the complexity of the conference strands.

The University of South Africa, hosting the GLOCAL AFALA 2024 in
Pretoria, South Africa, is one of an interchanging series of annual
hosts, and in this way, the GLOCAL global network expands to involve
institutions worldwide.

We thus welcome you to the AFALA 2024, the Annual African Assembly on
Linguistic Anthropology in South Africa, and to the AFALA as a whole.

Professor Nompumelelo Zodwa Radebe

Chair
African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology, the GLOCAL AFALA 2024

Chair
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
University of South Africa

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