Abstract
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…
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’)
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
Abstract
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
Abstract
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…
Key words: language and politics
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This paper aims to make visible the alternative social projects hidden beneath everyday Crimean Tatar landscapes. Drawing on audio recordings and field data from narrated walking tours led by…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
Key words: English for development, language policy
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Because of its global status, donors and states both promote English for the economic development of countries in the global South such as Bangladesh. National and western discourses propose…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
Key words: language and race
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This paper explores the experience of navigating Amsterdam Schiphol airport as a Dutch Person of Colour. It asks how, and in what ways, language-use can (re)affirm the body of…
Rampton, Charalambous, Mangual Figueroa, Zakharia, Levon & Jones
2019
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
Key words: linguistic theory, methodology
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This dialogue starts from the perception that existential threats to national security has become an increasingly pervasive concern in daily life, spreading fear and suspicion through civil society. Communicative…
Nikolaidou, Rehnberg & Wadensjö
2019
Collections: Uncategorized, Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
Key words: fieldwork
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This paper tells the story of obstacles and challenges to fieldwork in a research project exploring migrants’ narratives in the asylum process in Sweden, where, rather than facilitating data…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
Key words: linguistic theory
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This paper offers a theoretical and empirical contribution to current sociolinguistic discussions about ?existential threats? and their discursive construction in everyday life. Theoretically, the article argues for the importance…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
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This paper considers the role of contemporary securitization in the production of public spaces in London through a study of King’s Cross Station and Square. It critically examines the…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
Key words: surveillance
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It is often said that surveillance has massively transformed our social lives (Lyon, Haggerty & Ball 2012:1), but this claim is weakened by the admission that its ?effects are…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
Key words: linguistic theory
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Is crossing is now an outdated concept, losing its distinctiveness in the ?trans-super-poly-metro movement??? To answer this question, this paper moves away from the scenes of vernacular multi-ethnic heteroglossia…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
Key words: language insecurity, language practice
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This paper explores the relationship between sociolinguistics as the study of everyday communicative practice in changing social conditions on the one hand, and on the other, securitisation, a process…
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
Key words: bibliography, insecurity
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation, Uncategorized
Key words: bibliography, sociolinguistics
Karrebæk & Charalambous
2017
Collections: Conflict, security & (in)securitisation
Key words: methodology
Abstract
This paper discusses a linguistic ethnographic (LE) approach to superdiversity in three steps. First, it lays out some basic assumptions of LE. Secondly, it demonstrates how superdiversity pairs with…