36.2473, FYI: Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Philippinescapes and Beyond
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Subject: 36.2473, FYI: Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Philippinescapes and Beyond
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Date: 22-Aug-2025
From: Nicko Enrique Manalastas [nlmanalastas at up.edu.ph]
Subject: Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Philippinescapes and Beyond
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Philippinescapes and Beyond
Nicko Enrique Manalastas, Christian Go, & Nelson Buso Jr. (Editors)
Under consideration with Palgrave Macmillan
About the Volume:
Linguistic Landscape (LL) studies have emerged as a dynamic and
increasingly visible area of inquiry in Philippine scholarship.
Filipino and foreign scholars across disciplines—from sociolinguistics
and discourse studies to education, sociology, and cultural
geography—have begun to explore the ways in which local and foreign
languages are rendered (in)visible in public spaces across the
archipelago. From multilingual street signs and billboards to
institutional signage (Eclipse & Tenedero, 2018; Villareal et al.,
2021), street and train station signs (De Los Reyes, 2014; Peckson,
2014), Church signs (Esteron, 2021); protest slogans (Monje, 2017),
and school signs (Astillero, 2017; Balog & Gonzales, 2021; Brown,
2012; Bernardo, 2021; Magno, 2017), the Philippine linguistic
landscape is complex, layered, and deeply imbricated in issues of
gender and sexuality (Topacio, 2022; Go, 2022, 2024), language
politics (Tupas, 2024; Guinto, 2019; Bernardo-Hinesley & Gubitosi,
2022), legal history (Manalastas & Auxtero, 2024), social movement
(Buso, 2025), and language teaching (Floralde & Valdez, 2017).
Despite the growing body of localized LL research, however, there
remains a notable gap in the scholarship: the lack of a sustained
interrogation of what, precisely, constitutes the "Philippine" in
Philippine linguistic landscapes. That is, the ways in which
“Philippine” functions as a signifier that influences which languages,
identities, and meanings are made visible, celebrated or erased in
public spaces remain unexplored. While many notable studies are
grounded geographically—focusing on specific cities, regions, or
islands—the broader cultural, historical, political, and colonial
entanglements that shape these spaces remain undertheorized. As such,
instead of a geographic orientation, which emphasizes linguistic
landscapes in the Philippines, this volume proposes the term
“Philippinescapes," which, in turn, highlights not only the plural
realities of Filipinos but also concomitantly the illusion of an
assemblage that appears coherent and unified, yet is shaped by
fragmented identities, contested histories, and, oftentimes,
irreconcilable significations and resignifications.
Going beyond the descriptive mapping of signs, Philippinescapes probes
the broader historical conditions, power relations, and semiotic
practices that produce and transform the linguistic landscapes we
encounter. It also invites a reading of linguistic landscapes as
material traces that index and negotiate Filipino
subjectivities—including those that are marginalized, silenced, or in
resistance. Furthermore, it also examines how Philippine linguistic
landscapes become sites and focal points of negotiation where dominant
ideologies, local knowledges, legacies of colonialism and nationalism,
the ongoing struggle for linguistic rights and recognition, the
interplay of local and global forces, and resistant voices converge
and contend (see Lanza & Woldemariam, 2009; Shohamy & Waksman, 2009;
Spolsky, 2009; Gorter & Van Mensel, 2012). It brings together novel
interdisciplinary and interregional perspectives on the theory,
method, and politics of conducting LL studies within the Philippine
context or what counts as the imagined assemblage of Philippine
concepts, ideas, and values. In doing so, this volume seeks to create
a space for critiquing the limits of methodologies that fail to engage
with the dissonant, the invisible, or the epistemologically subaltern.
By foregrounding the Philippine context as not merely a site but, most
importantly, as a lens, this book aims to reframe LL studies from the
margins of the Global South, particularly within the broader
historical, political, cultural, and colonial context of the
Philippines and its regions. It therefore builds on and complicates
existing paradigms in the field by bringing attention to
place-specific histories, cultural practices, and socio-political and
linguistic dynamics. Contributors will be invited to reflect on but
also move beyond the spatially fixed notion of Philippine public
spaces by examining how language is displayed, erased, contested, or
commodified across sites shaped by urbanization, internal migration,
tourism, (neo)colonization, militarization, Indigeneity, education,
globalization, and neoliberal development. In doing so, the volume
encourages analyses that consider how meanings associated with
“Philippine” are produced, circulated, and transformed both within and
beyond geographic, temporal, and semiotic borders. The volume will
also welcome chapters that critically engage with methodological
challenges in doing LL research in diverse Philippine contexts,
including those outside of Metro Manila and other dominant urban
centers as well as in digital, diasporic, and other emergent spaces of
sign-making and meaning-making.
Ultimately, Philippinescapes invites readers to see linguistic
landscapes not just as objects of analysis, but as arenas of struggle,
history, and meaning, i.e., as domains through which the Philippines,
in all its complexity and fragmentation, continues to be imagined,
contested, and lived.
The edited volume aims to include, but is not limited to, the
following topics:
Regional and national identities in the Philippine LL
Local, translocal, and global subcultures in the Philippine LL
Gender, sex, and sexuality in the Philippine LL
Politics and social movement in the Philippine LL
Health and medical communication in the Philippine LL
Climate justice, natural disasters, and the Philippine LL
Language education, teaching, and the Philippine LL
Unequal Englishes in the Philippine LL
Inequalities of multilingualism in the Philippine LL
Language policies, planning, and legal history in the Philippine LL
Tourism, heritage conservation, and the Philippine LL
History and memory/memorialization in the Philippine LL
Philippine popular culture and media in the LL
Technology and artificial intelligence in the Philippine LL
Decolonizing the Philippine LL and its methodologies
Provisional Timetable
15 September 2025 – Deadline for chapter abstracts and working titles
30 September 2025 – Notification of acceptance
31 January 2026 – Submission of first drafts (7,000 words including
notes and references)
31 August 2026 – Submission to publisher
Submission Guidelines
Submit your chapter proposals through this Google Form on or before 15
September 2025:
https://forms.gle/TfK7ue9DnyyvqGxY9
For questions and concerns, please contact the Editors at
philippinescapesandbeyond at gmail.com.
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Applied Linguistics
General Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Writing Systems
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