Overview
This book is the fruition of five years' work in exploring the idea of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of post-structuralist, post-colonial and neo-Marxist interdisciplinary research into the potential and the limits of human cultural creativity and societal renewal under conditions of increasing and complexifying global connectivity. Through case studies of language practices in spaces understood as inherently translocal and multi-layered (classrooms and schools, youth spaces, mercantile spaces and nation-states), this book explores the relevance of superdiversity for the social and human sciences and positions it as a research perspective in sociolinguistics and beyond.
Full Product Details
Author: Karel Arnaut ,
Martha Sif Karrebæk ,
Massimiliano Spotti ,
Jan Blommaert
Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.450kg
ISBN: 9781783096787
ISBN 10: 1783096780
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 09 December 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Challenging the superdiversity sceptic, this broad and compelling collection of chapters carefully engages with superdiversity across time and space, from schools to mercantile spaces, from Indonesia to Denmark, showing the emergence of, as well as constraints upon, new convergences, new cultural practices, and new socialities. Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney, Australia This pioneering volume extends earlier use of the concept of superdiversity from describing linguistic and socio-demographic complexity occurring globally since about 1990 to a focus on specific spatial sites and post-panoptic tension between semiotic dispersal and recombination. It admirably succeeds in its aim of reaching out to a wider social science and humanities audience. David Parkin, University of Oxford, UK
Author Information
Author Website: http://inss.ku.dk/english/
Karel Arnaut is Associate Professor and Research Coordinator at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC), Leuven University, Belgium. Martha Sif Karrebaek is Associate Professor in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Massimiliano Spotti is Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Deputy Director of Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Jan Blommaert is Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Director of Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
