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In an age of immediate and global exchange of information, the ability to theorize about political conditions remains largely an elite, technocratic, and esoteric enterprise. In this timely intervention, Dean Caivano and Sarah Naumes argue that storytelling in the form of narrative and autoethnography creates an emancipatory potential through its ability to theorize from below, welcoming marginalized and excluded voices. Drawing from the disciplines of political studies, philosophy and literary studies, this volume offers a new assessment of political texts through the lens of the sublime as a fertile terrain to challenge who can write and disseminate political ideas - and how.

Radical Democracy; Aesthetic Theory; Narrative; Autoethnography; Methodology; Politics; Political Theory; Political Science --- Aesthetic Theory. --- Autoethnography. --- Methodology. --- Narrative. --- Political Science. --- Political Theory. --- Politics.

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What if my own multilingualism is simply that of one who is fluent in way too many colonial languages? If we are going to do this, if we are going to decolonise multilingualism, let’s do it as an attempt at a way of doing it. If we are going to do this, let’s cite with an eye to decolonising. If we are going to do this then let’s improvise and devise. This is how we might learn the arts of decolonising. If we are going to do this then we need different companions. If we are going to do this we will need artists and poetic activists. If we are going to do this, let’s do it in a way which is as local as it is global; which affirms the granulations of the way peoples name their worlds. Finally, if we are going to do this, let’s do it multilingually.

Imperialism and philology. --- Decolonization --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism --- Philology and imperialism --- Philology --- Social aspects. --- Post-colonial scholarship. --- anthropology. --- applied theatre. --- autoethnography. --- borders. --- colonial languages. --- decolonisation. --- indigenous knowledge. --- Entkolonialisierung. --- Mehrsprachigkeit.

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Transformative learning --- Education --- Social sciences --- Transformative learning. --- Philosophy --- Research --- Methodology --- Methodology. --- Research. --- Philosophy. --- Perspective transformation --- Transformations (Adult learning) --- Transformative education --- Educational research --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- imagination --- autoethnography --- transpersonal psychology --- creativity --- transformative research --- Learning --- Critical pedagogy --- Civilization

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Exploring Sikh Traditions and Heritage follows interdisciplinary approaches, namely, textual and historical analyses of Sikh texts and life-narratives of Guru Nanak to construct the critical events related to Babur’s invasions of India; an examination of a non-Sikh text to understand the image of Guru Nanak in the Dadu-panthi tradition; following interview and ethnographic methods to critically look into the global politics behind the Kartarpur Corridor and the sacred heritage of the Darbar Sahib in Pakistan; understanding the nature of modern Sikh activism in both the US and the UK through rich ethnography and historical investigation; introducing a systematic analysis of autoethnography of a person’s experience through reflexivity and connecting the personal story to the social, cultural, and political life, having synergy with Sikh sense-making process; and finally, sociological investigation into the changing nature of the Sikh institution of the Akal Takht. In addition to senior scholars, this volume initiates new researchers into the growing field of Sikh studies. It will be a useful resource for both scholars and students of Sikh studies, religion, medieval Indian history, and literature.

Religion & beliefs --- Bābar-vāṇī --- Babur --- Baburnama --- Dawlat Khan Lodi --- Gurdas --- Guru Nanak --- Janam-sākhīs --- Miharvan --- Rattan Singh Bhangu --- Saidpur --- Sikh --- Raghavdas --- Dadu --- Kabir --- Bhai Gurdas --- Bhakt-māl --- Nabhadas --- Udasi --- diaspora --- activism --- radicalism --- Sikhism --- Kartarpur Corridor --- Imran Khan --- Navjot Sidhu --- diasporic Sikhs --- autoethnography --- lived experience --- reflexivity --- gurmat --- pandemic --- humanitarianism --- ethics --- faith --- millennials --- Gen Z --- civil society --- Akal Takht --- jathedār --- Sikh institutions --- Sikh Rehat Maryada --- Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) --- authority --- legitimacy --- Bābar-vāṇī --- Babur --- Baburnama --- Dawlat Khan Lodi --- Gurdas --- Guru Nanak --- Janam-sākhīs --- Miharvan --- Rattan Singh Bhangu --- Saidpur --- Sikh --- Raghavdas --- Dadu --- Kabir --- Bhai Gurdas --- Bhakt-māl --- Nabhadas --- Udasi --- diaspora --- activism --- radicalism --- Sikhism --- Kartarpur Corridor --- Imran Khan --- Navjot Sidhu --- diasporic Sikhs --- autoethnography --- lived experience --- reflexivity --- gurmat --- pandemic --- humanitarianism --- ethics --- faith --- millennials --- Gen Z --- civil society --- Akal Takht --- jathedār --- Sikh institutions --- Sikh Rehat Maryada --- Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) --- authority --- legitimacy

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This autoethnographic account of the author’s Japanese as a second language learning trajectory is an important and unique addition to diary studies in SLA and applied linguistics qualitative research circles. In-depth ethnographic details and introspective commentary are skilfully interwoven throughout Simon-Maeda’s narrative of her experiences as an American expatriate who arrived in Japan in 1975 – the starting point of her being and becoming a speaker of Japanese. The book joins the recent surge in postmodernist, interdisciplinary approaches to examining language acquisition, and readers are presented with a highly convincing case for using autoethnography to better understand sociolinguistic complexities that are unamenable to quantification of isolated variables. The comprehensive literature review and wide ranging references provide a valuable source of information for researchers, educators, and graduate students concerned with current issues in SLA/applied linguistics, bi/multilingualism, and Japanese as a second language.

Japanese language --- Second language acquisition --- Languages & Literatures --- East Asian Languages & Literatures --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Study and teaching --- Second language acquisition Study and teaching --- Japanese as a second language. --- L2 identity and Japanese. --- L2 identity. --- L2 learner of Japanese. --- SLA. --- autoethnography. --- diary studies and Japanese. --- language acquisition. --- learning Japanese as a foreign language. --- learning Japanese as a second language. --- personal account of learning Japanese. --- personal story of learning Japanese.