Multilingualism and Politics: Revisiting Multilingual Citizenship Edited by Katerina Strani (2020)

The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict, and Change, Edited by Lid King & Lorna Carson (2006), Multilingual Matters, ISBN-13 978-1-78309-477-6

The English language, multilingualism, and the politics of location

Drawing on Pennycook’s frameworks for understanding the global role of English, we discuss the paradoxes of English language usage in what Canagarajah terms ‘periphery communities’ internationally. This analysis is complemented by Canagarajah’s work on a ‘politics of location’, which provides powerful insights into a periphery community’s local and global investments in English. This notion is ...

Amateur vs . Professionals : Politics , Citizenship and Science

Scientific and technological expertise is currently experiencing a crisis. The public shows a growing distrust in many aspects related to the techno-scientific development. The birth of that suspicion begins after World War II but has transformed in the past few decades. In this paper, the authors examine how that doubt has specific features in the present moment. Also, there is a reaction to p...

Amateur Versus Professionals Politics, Citizenship and Science

Scientific and technological expertise is currently experiencing a crisis. The public shows a growing distrust in many aspects related to the techno-scientific development. The birth of that suspicion begins after World War II but has transformed in the past few decades. In this paper, the authors examine how that doubt has specific features in the present moment. Also, there is a reaction to p...

Revisiting the politics of dangerousness.

Just over a quarter century ago, Michael Petrunik, Senior Research Officer in the Research Division of the Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada, wrote an article entitled “The Politics of Dangerousness.” The specific impetus for Petrunik’s paper was the then recently enacted 1977 Canadian Dangerous Offender Legislation. He sought to explain the political underpinnings of recent legal dev...