Pasts, presents and futures: discourses of colonization and decolonization
| Autor: | Ana Deumert |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Sociolinguistica. 36:23-34 |
| ISSN: | 1865-939X 0933-1883 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/soci-2022-0009 |
| Popis: | In this article, I reflect on the future of macro-sociolinguistic research from a global-south perspective. I discuss the role that activism has played in scholarly work, and how such activism was hampered by persistent ideologies of ‘thingification’; that is, ideologies that created languages and nations as ‘objects’ (to be managed and controlled by states and local/national/global elites). I ground the history of such discourses in colonialism-capitalism. I further explore the global and local regimes of language that were created through the dehumanizing violence of colonialism-capitalism, as well as the alternative futures that have been imagined by all those who resisted – and continue to resist – this violence. I conclude with some thoughts on temporalities, on the different relationships with, and to, time and the urgency of the present. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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