1st Edition
Re-imagining Language and Communication in Collaborative Projects Ethnographic Perspectives on the Future
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1.
The politics of future re-imagination: sociolinguistic approaches
Miguel Pérez-Milans and Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà
PART I. Better future(s) and non-profit associations under the neoliberal nation-state
Chapter 2.
Appropriating “solidarity” in hopeful narratives of an alternative future in a social movement
Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà
Chapter 3.
Religion, social memory and future re-imagination: utopian narratives through an ethnographic lens
Miguel Pérez-Milans and Xiaoyan (Grace) Guo
Chapter 4.
“La vida es una repetición hasta que nosotros cambiemos”: imagining and materialising the future of Rionegro, Colombia, with English
Peter Browning
PART II. Activism and the colonial politics of race, class, and gender
Chapter 5.
“This is how we managed not to die in Complexo do Alemão”: the pedagogy of hope in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas
Daniel N. Silva
Chapter 6.
Negras villeras y marronas: emerging feminist subjectivities haunting Argentina’s invisibilized racial heritage
Verónica Pájaro
PART III. Reimagination of diasporic togetherness as resistance to colonial temporalities (and spatialities)
Chapter 7.
Narratives of refusal towards “lusofonia”: postcolonial orders of (im)possibilities and (im)mobilities in lusophone terrains
Bernardino Tavares
Chapter 8.
Transnational Indigenous sovereignty across time and space: disrupting multicultural education “days”
Patricia Baquedano-López and Nate Gong
PART IV. Future, sociolinguistics, and the re-imagining of ways of knowing
Chapter 9.
Future nostalgia: sociolinguistic prefigurations as ethical possibilities
Rodrigo Borba
Index
Biography
Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of English and German at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). She authored Community, Solidarity and Multilingualism in a Social Movement: A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Emmaus (Routledge, 2021).
Miguel Pérez-Milans is Professor of Language, Discourse, and Communication in the UCL Institute of Education at University College London, UK. His previous publications include Urban Schools and English Language Education in Late Modern China (Routledge, 2013) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning (2018).
