Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà

Community, Solidarity and Multilingualism in a Transnational Social Movement

A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Emmaus

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a critical sociolinguistic ethnography of the Emmaus movement, analyzing linguistic and discursive practices in two local communities to provide insight into solidarity discourses and transnational communication more broadly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780367534530
• ISBN-10: 0367534533
• Artikelnr.: 69891004

Autorenporträt

Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà is Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Language, discourse and transnationalism in a social movement xx
Emmaus as a holistic social movement xx
Investigating sociolinguistic articulation across borders xx
Theoretical approaches xx
Critical ethnographic sociolinguistics xx
Transnational social movements xx
Community as a nexus xx
An ethnographic journey into a transnational field xx
Access, collaboration and positioning xx
An ethnographic toolbox xx
Structure of the book xx
Chapter 2: Historicising the transnational expansion of a social movement
through key events and texts xx
Introduction xx
Transnational and multilingual expansion of a French movement xx
Foundation and "Catacombs period" (1949-1954) xx
"Insurrection of Goodness" in France (1954) and early expansion (1955-1969)
xx
From the First World Assembly (1969) to the politicisation of the movement
(1988) xx
Historicising religion and politics in two different Emmaus communities xx
Faith traditions and socio-political activism xx
Emmaus Barcelona: Progressive Catholicism and post-'68 activism xx
Emmaus London: Charity and social enterprise xx
Concluding remarks: A solidarity mission over time xx
Chapter 3: Transnational articulation and socialisation through the Emmaus
founding story xx
Introduction: A social movement tells a "new story" xx
Conceptual framework: Collective identity through narrative chronotopes xx
"A story of us": A chronotopic analysis of the Emmaus origin story xx
An ethnographic analysis of the movement's founding story in situated
interactions xx
Socialisation into "stories of us": Oral storytelling and semiotic
artefacts xx
"Stories of self": Personal narratives of transformation xx
Concluding remarks: Creating sameness in the Emmaus social movement xx
Chapter 4: Discursive localisations of solidarity in two socio-political
contexts xx
Introduction xx
"Towards other reasons to live": Alter-globalisation discourses in Emmaus
Barcelona xx
Snapshot: "Stories of now" in socio-political activism xx
Zooming in: A residential project for migrants xx
"Emmaus, the homeless charity that works": Discourses of reciprocity and
skilling in the UK xx
Snapshot: "Stories of now" in homeless activation xx
Zooming in: Voluntary work schemes for the homeless xx
Concluding remarks: Solidarity at the intersection of transnational trends,
nation-state regimes and individual trajectories xx
Chapter 5: Language ideologies for negotiating positioning in the Emmaus
social movement xx
Introduction xx
Two distinct visions of Emmaus as a movement xx
Emmaus as a "multi-national of the heart" xx
Emmaus as a rhizomatic network xx
Constructing positioning in Emmaus through language ideologies of lingua
francas xx
Deproblematising language: French and Spanish as lingua francas in a
Catalan community xx
Problematising language: Tensions between English and French in a recent
English community xx
Concluding remarks: Ideologies of multilingualism and positioning in the
movement xx
Chapter 6: Linguistic nationalism and the erasure of multilingualism in
local Emmaus communities xx
Constructing language: Between fixity and fluidity in localities xx
Fitting into (linguistic) nationalism xx
Emmaus London: Constructing a monolingual space in an English charity xx
Emmaus Barcelona: Tensions between monolingual and bilingual norms xx
Backgrounding multilingualism in everyday practices xx
Emmaus London: Institutional erasure of multilingual biographies xx
Emmaus Barcelona: Multilingualism and new migrants xx
Concluding remarks: Nationalist ideologies in a transnational social
movement xx
Chapter 7: Language, transnational solidarity and utopia in an imagined
community xx
Emmaus as a utopia made of "walking words" xx
What's the (hi)story? Key findings about Emmaus as a social movement xx
Towards a sociolinguistics of transnationalism xx
What now? The story continues xx
Appendix 1: Universal Manifesto of the Emmaus movement (1969)
Appendix 2: Abbé Pierre's Radio Appeal on 1st February 1954 (short version)
Appendix 3: Orientations - Propositions - Questions adopted at the 6th
Emmaus International General Assembly in Verona (1988)
Appendix 4: Transcription conventions
References
Index