Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination

ISBN-13: 9781032328751 / Twarda / 2023 / 202 str.

Opis

This collection explores way in which women in academia from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds mediate the negotation between linguistic discrimination and linguistic diversity in higher education, using autoethnography. This book will be of interest to scholars in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies.

Spis treści

Introduction Methodological notes: Speaking across difference: Autoethnography as a living practice of resistance and truth-telling (Marilyn Metta) Part 1: Being a female academic in the Global South 1. Gender, racial and social discrimination in academic studies in Brazil: A linguist’s personal testimony (Gladis Massini-Cagliari) 2. Negotiating and (re)constructing identities as translingual female Mauritian academics (Nirvana Lavictoire, Mylene Biquette, Toni Dobinson) 3. Feminist reflection on our life trajectories as educators, researchers, and humane leaders in Bangladesh and Australia (Shaila Sultana, Preeti Singh) 4. More than below, but not quite above: Alterities, exclusions, and silences. (Uma Jogulu, Maggie McAlinden) Part 2: Being a female academic from the Global South 5. Reconstructing academic identity: a journey of an early-career female academic of linguistically and culturally diverse background (Yue Zhao, Qian Gong) 6. Auto-ethnographic Reflections from researchers of South Asian ethnicity (Jaya Dantas, Zakia Jeemi) 7. South to North: Diversity as an academic asset (Celeste Rodríguez Louro) Part 3: Being a postgraduate student from the Global South 8. Negotiating identity and language: A reflexive account of Ghanaian and Iraqi migrant academic women in the Global North (Davida Aba Mensima Asante-Nimako, Shaymaa Ali, Ana Tankosić, Sender Dovchin) 9. From self-doubt to resilience: Lived experiences of four Ukrainian female researchers and educators in Australia (Tatiana Bogachenko, Iryna Khodos, Nadezhda Chubko, Larysa Chybis) 10. Linguistic self-reflections of Mongolian postgraduate students in the Global North (Nandin-Erdene Bayart, Chuluuntumur Damdin, Hana Tserenkhand Byambadash, Bolormaa Shinjee, Nina Adiya, Stephanie Dryden) Part 4: Negotiating linguistic discrimination and diversity 11. Norms of speaking and spaces in-between (Zhu Hua) 12. On (not) writing in Japanese (Emi Otsuji) 13. Sliding cultures: Unrecognised cultural and linguistic diversity in academia (Sonja Kuzich, Toni Dobinson) 14. Linguistic diversity and discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia (Saba Ghezili, Angel M. Y. Lin) Conclusion (Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson, Maggie McAlinden)

O autorze

Sender Dovchin is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.

Qian Gong is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education at Curtin University, Australia.

Toni Dobinson is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Post Graduate Programs in Applied Linguistics at Curtin University, Australia.

Maggie McAlinden is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Coordinator of the postgraduate TESOL program in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University, Australia.