Overview

This volume explores the concept of 'citizenship', and argues that it should be understood both as a process of becoming and the ability to participate fully, rather than as a status that can be inherited, acquired, or achieved. From a courtroom in Bulawayo to a nursery in Birmingham, the authors use local contexts to foreground how the vulnerable, particularly those from minority language backgrounds, continue to be excluded, whilst offering a powerful demonstration of the potential for change offered by individual agency, resistance and struggle. In addressing questions such as 'under what local conditions does ""dis-citizenship"" happen?'; 'what role do language policies and pedagogic practices play?' and 'what kinds of margins and borders keep humans from fully participating'? The chapters in this volume shift the debate away from visas and passports to more uncertain and contested spaces of interpretation.

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Author:   Vaidehi Ramanathan
Publisher:   Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.411kg
ISBN:  

9781783090181

ISBN 10:   1783090189
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   07 August 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Chapter 1. Vaidehi Ramanathan: Introduction: Language Policies and (Dis)citizenship: Access, Rights, Pedagogies Section 1: Citizenship: Reproducing, Challenging, Transforming Discourses and Ideologies Chapter 2. Sibusiwe Makoni: Language, Gender and Citizenship: Re-framing Citizenship from a Gender Equality Perspective Chapter 3. Aya Matsuda and Chatwara Suwannamai Duran: Problematizing the Construction of US Americans as Monolingual English speakers Chapter 4. Emily Feuerherm: Key Words in Refugee Accounts: Implications for Language Policy Chapter 5. Julia Menard-Warwick: ""The World doesn't end with the Corner of their Street"": Language Ideologies of Chilean English Teachers Chapter 6. Gemma Punti and Kendall King: A Perfect Storm for Undocumented Latino Youth: Multi-level Marketing, Discourses of Advancement and Language Policy Chapter 7. Teresa McCarty: Language Education Policy, Citizenship, and Sovereignty in Native America Section 2: Education and Citizenship: Creating (and Constraining) Spaces for Language, Learning and Belonging Chapter 8. Gopinder Kaur Sagoo: Citizenship as a Social, Spiritual and Multilingual Practice: Fostering Visions and Practices in the Niksham Nursery Project Chapter 9. Jacqueline Widin and Keiko Yasukawa: Re-imagining Citizenship: Scenes from the Classroom Chapter 10. Ariel Loring: Classroom Meanings and Enactments of US Citizenship: An Ethnographic Study Chapter 11. Kate Menken: (Dis) Citizenship or Opportunity: The Importance of Language Education Policy for Access and Full Participation of Emergent Bilinguals in the US Chapter 12. Rosemary Henze and Fabio Oliveira Coelho: English Learning without English teachers?: The Rights and Access of Rural Secondary Students in Nicaragua Vaidehi Ramanathan: Editor's Afterword"

Reviews

This is an excellent collection of articles, thoughtfully compiled by an insightful and innovative editor. Topics cover a range of important contemporary issues in diverse regions of the world. A significant contribution to applied linguistics. Bonny Norton, Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia, Canada

Author Information

Author Website:   http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/People/vramanat

Vaidehi Ramanathan is a Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Davis. Her previous publications include The English-Vernacular Divide: Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice (Multilingual Matters, 2005) and Bodies and Language: Health, Ailments, Disabilities (Multilingual Matters, 2009).

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Author Website:   http://linguistics.ucdavis.edu/People/vramanat

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