{"product_id":"exploring-im-mobilities-language-practices-discourses-and-imaginaries-9781788925280","title":"Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe impact of mobility and superdiversity in recent sociolinguistic research is well-established, yet very few studies deal with issues related to immobility. The chapters in this book focus on the sociolinguistic investigation of the dynamics between mobility and immobility as experienced by migrants, asylum seekers and members of minority or exploited groups. Central to the book is an exploration of how mobilities are affected by and in turn affect power relations and of the kinds of resources used by people to deal with (im)mobility processes. The book brings to light a new critical sociolinguistic imagination that is responsive to 21st century processes of (im)mobilities as socially, discursively and emotionally constructed and negotiated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an extremely timely book that reminds us of some of the neglected aspects of the new mobility paradigm in sociolinguistic research. It covers research contexts that have not been previously explored. Its conceptual and methodological innovations ensure the book’s lasting impact on theory, research design, policy and practice. * Li Wei, University College London, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis book treats the notion of (im)mobilization in a competent and nuanced manner. It considers at least four competing but complementary perspectives: (1) language resources and repertoires, (2) language practices and technologies, (3) control, mobility and resistance, and (4) subjectivity, identity and agency, drawing from examples in different regions of the globe. This is a welcome and timely addition to the expanding scholarship on the topic. * Sinfree Makoni, Pennsylvania State University, USA and Laikipia University, Kenya *\u003cbr\u003eAmong the large animals, humans stand out for their propensity to migrate, their social stratification, and their complex symbolic communication. The authors of this volume explore the intersection of mobilities, inequalities, and discourses in a powerful set of contemporary case studies from around the world. * Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University, Australia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExploring (Im)mobilities\u003c\/em\u003e is certainly an interesting read for those who want to know more about the role of language in contexts of (im)mobilization and processes of (im)mobility. It is written in a style that is accessible to undergraduate and more senior scholars as well as to the informed reader with an interest in language-on-the-move.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Noel B. Salazar, KU Leuven, Belgium * Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2022 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeaking from my own collaboration (Holsapple 2022) with Multilingual Matters, I can affirm that \u003cem\u003eExploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries \u003c\/em\u003eis no exception to their commitment to publishing critically-engaged scholarship that hinges on challenging and shaking up, rather than assuming and reifying normative patterns of analysis. Addressing the widespread fallacy of considering mobility primarily through a positivist lens, the volume's eleven sociolinguistic case studies bring to the forefront agentive meaning-making practices through which (im)mobility is reconfigured, as experienced by asylum-seekers, migrants, and other minoritized mobile groups.\u003c\/p\u003e * Christiana Decheva, University of Tartu, Estonia, Tertium Linguistic Journal 8 (1) (2023) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAnna De Fina and Gerardo Mazzaferro: Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: The (Im)mobilization of Language Resources, Repertoires and Practices\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Mari D’Agostino: Multilingual Young African Migrants: Between Mobility and Immobility\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Necia Stanford Billinghurst: Sociolinguistic (Im)mobilities in Spaces of Migration\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Katrijn Maryns and Stef Slembrouck: Categorization and the Use of English as an (Im)mobile Resource in Service Encounters with Migrants in Flanders\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: (Im)mobilities, Technologies and Control\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Maria Sabaté-Dalmau: Controlling Migrants’ (Im)mobilities through Telecommunications: Technopolitical Governance in Telephony Advertising Discourse\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Massimiliano Spotti: On Being Enregistered into the Matrix of Online Knowledge: An Ethnographic Exploration of an Internet-based Dismissal in an Asylum-seeking Procedure\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Marco Jacquemet: From Language to Politics: Communication, Power, and Migration in the Central Mediterranean\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Spaces of (Im)mobility and Resistance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Anna De Fina and Gerardo Mazzaferro: Everyday Communicative Practices and Repertoires in Contexts of Involuntary and Enforced Immobility\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Ana Deumert: Beachspaces: Racism and Settler-Colonial (Im)mobilities at the Shoreline\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Birgul Yilmaz: Language and Humanitarian Governmentality in a Refugee Camp on Lesvos Island\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: (Im)mobilities, Subjectivity, Identity and Agency\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Mike Baynham, Bahiru Shewaye and Gomes O. Kayode: Estrangement and Home in Queer Asylum Stories\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 11. Roberta Piazza: The Power of (Im)mobility: Irish Travellers’ Agentive Identities in Transit and Permanency\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 12. Jan Blommaert: Postscript: Immobilities Normalized\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Multilingual Matters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042536456535,"sku":"9781788925280","price":33.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788925280.jpg?v=1750954545","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exploring-im-mobilities-language-practices-discourses-and-imaginaries-9781788925280","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}