The Co-Construction of Local Identities Through Translanguaging and Transculturing Among Euro-African Youths in Melilla
- Autores: Josh Prada
- Localización: The handbook of multilingualism, identity, and language endangerment in Africa / coord. por Alireza Korangy, Evgeniya Gutova, 2025, ISBN 9789819647293, págs. 425-440
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
This chapter approaches Melilla as a borderlands of emergent linguistic and cultural activity through the lens of trans-phenomena. Drawing upon a decolonial conceptual framework, this case study centers the perspectives of six friends born and raised in Melilla, who illustrate the dynamic nature of meaning-making in this context, its implications for local identity co-construction, and the ordinariness of it all. The case study employs a combination of focus group interviews and moment analysis during two ethnographic sessions. After transcription and thematic analysis, the data were organized into segments related to cultural flows (i.e., transculturing) and to meaning co-construction (i.e., translanguaging). The chapter describes both types of flows, and brings to bear the relationships of mutuality between the two. The piece begins with an overview of Melilla as a geopolitical context. It then presents concepts from decolonial approaches, drawing upon the works of Anzaldúa and Bhabha, incorporating translanguaging. The second part of the chapter describes the case study, discussing qualitative findings, and advancing the notion of ordinariness of translanguaging and transculturing through this Euro-African grassroots perspective.
