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External donors growingly promote English as a notionally value-neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as…
Conflict, security & (in)securitisation collection
These publications are closely linked to work of LIEP, the Language, (In)security & Everyday Practice Group (www.kcl.ac.uk/liep – see ‘Useful links’)
Rampton & Van De Putte
2026
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
Key words: conflict, insecuritisation, interaction, memory studies, methodology, sociolinguistics, spectres
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Sociolinguistics needs to take violence and its lasting, intense and/or unpredictable effects very seriously, but is a new and specialised hauntological sociolinguistics of the spectre needed to address them?…
Sankaran & Rampton
2026
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This paper builds on Brubaker’s (2005) conception of diaspora as practice and describes how a legacy of conflict feeds into basic communicative processes in the formation of diasporic spaces…
Hub for Education & Language Diversity
2026
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In what ways are language teachers being affected by intensifying anti-immigrant rhetoric and the rise of the far right? And what practical strategies can they develop to resist the…
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Resumo Este artigo apresenta uma biografia etnográfica do Movimento Cidades (in)Visíveis (MC(in)V) e de sua fundadora, Ítala Isis, com o objetivo de analisar práticas de letramentos de arte-ativismo no…
Rampton & Sankaran
2025
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
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‘Are chronotopes helpful’, asked Jan Blommaert. This chapter answers affirmatively, but uses the concept differently from Blommaert, centring its analysis on the difficulties that Sri Lankan Tamils in London…
Charalambous, Zembylas & Aristidou
2024
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
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Building on recent rethinking, this special issue introduction foregrounds the affective, relational, embodied and material dimensions of intercultural communication, and explores its links to ‘crisis’ as a lived, affective,…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
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In the lead-up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their legal guardians. Instead, they…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
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This article presents an approach to biographical writing developed through ethnographic fieldwork on social movement literacies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From that wider range, the focus is on…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
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This paper examines how survivors of a terrorist attack in Fortaleza, Brazil, and their allies navigated its aftermath. Through a focus group and interviews with students, professors, and other…
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Artificial intelligence is certainly changing our lives, but wherever there is an interest in the ongoing interaction of people, culture, economy and environment, where different kinds of discourse, person,…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
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Na zona oeste do Rio de Janeiro, a mais pobre da cidade, portões vêm sendo instalados na entrada de ruas. Este artigo é fruto de uma pesquisa etnográfica de…
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In this plenary, I revisit the notion of EFL as a cultural discourse that I developed in previous work by engaging with it from a Southern locus of enunciation….
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What do Sociolinguistics and Memory Studies have in common, and why should they be interested in each other? What are the likely obstacles to their interaction? How could they…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
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The 2018 Israeli Nationality Law defined Israel as a state for Jewish people. What are the implications of this for Jerusalem and its population of roughly 500,000 Jews and…
Benswait & Pérez-Milans
2022
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
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In this article we examine our own doctoral supervisory dialogue as it has been institutionally interrupted due to Ahmad’s application for asylum in the UK. As we find ourselves…
Rampton, Silva & Charalambous
2022
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
Key words: insecuritisation, sociolinguistics
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This paper argues that (in)securitisation-“making ‘enemy’ and ‘fear’ the integrative, energetic principle of politics” (Huysmans 2014:3)-now calls for much fuller attention than it has hitherto received in sociolinguistics, and…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
Key words: language and dissent, protest
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Protest has become a hot topic in recent sociolinguistic and semiotic landscapes scholarship. Despite a growing number of studies, little research has been done on dissent as it is…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
Key words: sociolinguistics
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This short talk sketches some major shifts – past, recent and emergent – in sociolinguistics, focusing on its engagement with the state, the economy and security, concluding with some…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
Key words: education
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This article revisits discussions of the relationship between language and heritage, bringing into the picture processes and experiences of (in)security and conflict. It draws largely on critical heritage studies…