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The sociolinguistics of place and belonging
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ISBN: 9789027200044 9789027264596 9027200041 9027264597 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia

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This volume shows the relevance of the concepts of ‘place’ and ‘belonging’ for understanding the dynamics of identification through language. It also opens up a new terrain for sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological study, namely the margins. Rural, as well as urbanized areas that are seen as marginal or peripheral to places that are overtly recognized as mixed and hybridized have received relatively little sociolinguistic attention. Yet, people living in these supposedly less ‘spectacular’ margins are not immune to the effects of globalization and rapid technological change. They too constantly form new ensembles from linguistic and cultural resources which they invest with novel, instable, often ambiguous meanings. This volume focusses on the purportedly unspectacular in order to achieve a full understanding of the relation between language, place and belonging. The contributors to this volume, therefore, focus on language practices analyzing them as dialectically related to political-economic processes and language ideologies.


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Post-conflict central American literature
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ISBN: 161148703X 1611485487 9781611485486 9781306171366 1306171369 9781611485479 1611485479 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lewisburg

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This is the first book-length study to consider the development and significance of Central American post-conflict poetry; and to study poets such as Luis Chaves, Marta Leonor González, Susana Reyes, and Juan Sobalvarro together with well-known short fiction writers, Claudia Hernández, Jacinta Escudos and Salvador Canjura. Through a deep engagement with post-conflict Central American culture and literature, this book details ways in which contemporary Salvadoran, Nicaraguan and Costa Rican writers imagine and find ho


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Do I belong? : reflections from Europe
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ISBN: 9780745399959 9780745399942 9781786800992 9781786801012 9781786801005 1786800993 0745399940 0745399959 0745399959 1786801000 Year: 2017 Publisher: London, England : Pluto Press,


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Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world
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ISBN: 1442699442 1442644222 9781442699441 9781442644229 9781442644229 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press

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With a range of social, artistic, economic, political, and literary perspectives, the contributors provide a lively exploration of the tensions and opportunities of life in the Hellenistic Mediterranean.


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Africa's anthropological dictionary on love and understanding : marriage and the tensions of belonging in Cameroon
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ISBN: 9956791423 9789956791422 9956791059 9789956791057 9789956791057 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG,

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This book deals with love, marriage/family, and witchcraft issues but its central question remains that of whether love without understanding is love. Tackling love from much broader and interdisciplinary angles than just the love-making that most love stories usually focus on, it advances the duo of love and understanding as the foundation of any successful marriage/family. Although Momany is blessed with often easily finding this rare duo, the tensions of belonging in Cameroon have been constant and persistent challenges. The book uniquely raises and brings new and ground-breaking perspectives on its subject-matters, obviously leaving many social scientists with much to do further research on.


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Australian media and the politics of belonging
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ISBN: 1783087803 178308779X 1783087781 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Anthem Press,

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'Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging' addresses key topical themes and concerns in contemporary Australia, which will be of interest to both students and researchers concerned with developing a greater understanding of issues of belonging, and to a broader and general readership concerned with engaging with this key area of national and international interest.


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Belonging and resilience in individuals with developmental disabilities
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ISBN: 3030812774 3030812766 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,


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Mothers on the move
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ISBN: 022638974X 022638991X 9780226389745 9780226389882 022638988X 9780226389912 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago

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The massive scale and complexity of international migration today tends to obscure the nuanced ways migrant families seek a sense of belonging. In this book, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg takes readers back and forth between Cameroon and Germany to explore how migrant mothers-through the careful and at times difficult management of relationships-juggle belonging in multiple places at once: their new country, their old country, and the diasporic community that bridges them. Feldman-Savelsberg introduces readers to several Cameroonian mothers, each with her own unique history, concerns, and voice. Through scenes of their lives-at a hometown association's year-end party, a celebration for a new baby, a visit to the Foreigners' Office, and many others-as well as the stories they tell one another, Feldman-Savelsberg enlivens our thinking about migrants' lives and the networks and repertoires that they draw on to find stability and, ultimately, belonging. Placing women's individual voices within international social contexts, this book unveils new, intimate links between the geographical and the generational as they intersect in the dreams, frustrations, uncertainties, and resolve of strong women holding families together across continents.


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Life stories and sociological imagination : music, private lives, and public identity in France and Sweden
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ISBN: 1443865648 9781443865647 1322056935 9781322056937 9781443842730 1443842737 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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What happens when public figures' private selves are put forth for examination by public audiences? How do the personal struggles of music artists, specifically those with immigrant backgrounds, compare to the private struggles of other individuals? At a time when many countries in the European Union are experiencing an increase in far-right political party activities, how do individuals from the margins negotiate new ways of thinking about identity, offering hope for a greater understanding ...


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Immersion : Marathon swimming, embodiment and identity
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ISBN: 9781526100467 1526100460 9781526100474 1526100479 0719099625 9780719099625 1526114976 9781526114976 Year: 2016 Publisher: Manchester, [England] : Manchester University Press,

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Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, 'Immersion' explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the 'good' body in contemporary neoliberal society across a range of sites including charitable swimming, fatness, gender and health.

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