The politics of language scholarship: there are no truly global concerns

• Autores: Harshana Rambukwella
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 267-268, 2021, págs. 253-257
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Some key categories in the study of language and society – such as the notion of identity and the very notion of language itself – have come under critical scrutiny with the rise of concepts such as translanguaging. While acknowledging the epistemological and political necessity of this critique I caution against the conflation of concepts with social realities. At the same time, I argue for a critical practice that does not subsume the local in favor of global theoretical trends, which can result from conceptual reification occurring due to an insidious nexus between neo-liberal forces and global inequalities in knowledge production.