What effect has globalization had on our understanding of literacy? Grassroots Literacy seeks to address the relationship between globalization and the widening gap between 'grassroots' literacies, or writings from ordinary people and local communities, and 'elite' literacies.
What effect has globalization had on our understanding of literacy? Grassroots Literacy seeks to address the relationship between globalization and the widening gap between 'grassroots' literacies, or writings from ordinary people and local communities, and 'elite' literacies.
Jan Blommaert is Distinguished Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, as well as Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at Tilburg University. His publications include Debating Diversity (co-author, Routledge, 1998), Language Ideological Debates (editor, 1999) and Discourse: A Critical Introduction (author, 2005).
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Table of Contents Preface PART 1: GRASSROOTS LITERACY 1. Introduction: Grassroots literacy and literacy regimes 1.1. Yes I can write 1.2. Writing 1.3. Grassroots literacy 1.4. Ethnographies of text 1.5. Globalization PART 2: THE LIVES OF JULIEN 2. Three lives for Mrs Arens 2.1. Three versions of a life 2.2. Writing with an accent 2.3. Julien's life: a storyline 2.4. Writing (as) a (way of) life 2.5. Context and pretext 3. Genres and repertoires 3.1. Resources 3.2. On genre 3.3. Emerging genres in an emerging tradition 3.4. Histories and letters 3.5. The repertoire 3.6. The misfit 4. Writing, remembering and being 4.1. Emerging genres, emerging lives 4.2. Writing and remembering 4.3. Who is Julien? 4.4. Textuality and subjectivity PART 3: TSHIBUMBA THE HISTORIAN 5. Tshibumba: Artist, painter, historian 5.1. Paintings, conversations, and texts 5.2. Tshibumba Kanda Matulu 5.3. The storyline 6. The aesthetics of grassroots literacy 6.1. Writing as drawing 6.2. Tshibumba's writing and drawing 6.3. Tshibumba's voice 6.4. A disciplined voice 7. Sources as resources 7.1. The archive again 7.2. A national history with local resources 7.3. Tshibumba's voices 8. The grassroots historian's craft 8.1. Tshibumba's historiographic methodology 8.2. Grassroots historiography and popular consciousness 8.3. Artist, painter, grassroots historian PART 4: JULIEN, TSHIBUMBA AND BEYOND 9. Reflections 9.1. Lives, literacy, subjectivity 9.2. The skeleton of literacy practices 9.3. Grassroots literacy in globalization 9.4. History from below 9.5. Conclusion NOTES & REFERENCES
Table of Contents Preface PART 1: GRASSROOTS LITERACY 1. Introduction: Grassroots literacy and literacy regimes 1.1. Yes I can write 1.2. Writing 1.3. Grassroots literacy 1.4. Ethnographies of text 1.5. Globalization PART 2: THE LIVES OF JULIEN 2. Three lives for Mrs Arens 2.1. Three versions of a life 2.2. Writing with an accent 2.3. Julien's life: a storyline 2.4. Writing (as) a (way of) life 2.5. Context and pretext 3. Genres and repertoires 3.1. Resources 3.2. On genre 3.3. Emerging genres in an emerging tradition 3.4. Histories and letters 3.5. The repertoire 3.6. The misfit 4. Writing, remembering and being 4.1. Emerging genres, emerging lives 4.2. Writing and remembering 4.3. Who is Julien? 4.4. Textuality and subjectivity PART 3: TSHIBUMBA THE HISTORIAN 5. Tshibumba: Artist, painter, historian 5.1. Paintings, conversations, and texts 5.2. Tshibumba Kanda Matulu 5.3. The storyline 6. The aesthetics of grassroots literacy 6.1. Writing as drawing 6.2. Tshibumba's writing and drawing 6.3. Tshibumba's voice 6.4. A disciplined voice 7. Sources as resources 7.1. The archive again 7.2. A national history with local resources 7.3. Tshibumba's voices 8. The grassroots historian's craft 8.1. Tshibumba's historiographic methodology 8.2. Grassroots historiography and popular consciousness 8.3. Artist, painter, grassroots historian PART 4: JULIEN, TSHIBUMBA AND BEYOND 9. Reflections 9.1. Lives, literacy, subjectivity 9.2. The skeleton of literacy practices 9.3. Grassroots literacy in globalization 9.4. History from below 9.5. Conclusion NOTES & REFERENCES
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