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WP356 Interaction & memory in empirical sociolinguistic approaches to the spectral
2026
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? This paper argues (i) that theories and …
Key words: conflict, insecuritisation, interaction, memory studies, methodology, sociolinguistics, spectres
WP337 Arts-activist literacies across a lifespan: An ethnographic biography of Ítala Isis and the (in)Visible Cities Movement in Rio de Janeiro
2025
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 arts-activist literacies across the lifespan of one …
Key words: arts activism, Brazil, ethnography, insecuritisation, Literacy Studies
WP334 The pragmatics of hope among survivors of a terrorist attack
2025
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 professionals—some present during the attack, others …
Key words: Brazil, hope, insecuritisation, survival
WP293 Sociolinguistics and (in)securitisation as another mode of governance
2022
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 that it should figure …
Key words: insecuritisation, sociolinguistics