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Stephanie V. Love

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, The Graduate Center, CUNY, University of Washington

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The Poetics of Grievance: Taxi Drivers, Vernacular Placenames, and the Paradoxes of Post‐Coloniality in Oran, Algeria☆

Love

2021

City & Society

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Based on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Mediterranean port city of Oran, this article examines why Algerians, after nearly sixty years of independence, continue to use French colonial‐era placenames instead of the post‐colonial names commemorating the martyrs of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962). I argue that vernacular place‐naming, including the use of colonial‐era names, should be understood as a component of what I call the “poetics of grievance,” whereby city dwellers simultaneously draw attention to linguistic and physical urban forms to express dissatisfaction with their post‐colonial authoritarian state. By examining local taxi drivers’ detailed knowledge of vernacular placenames and the everyday talk that often accompanies them, this article demonstrates how the colonial past can become a powerful poetic resource for city dwellers, serving as a means to conceptualize the potential for grief and rage to bring about revolutionary change in post‐colonial cities.

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Race, Language, and Schooling in Italy’s Immigrant Policies, Public Discourses, and Pedagogies

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2012

IJME

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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In this article, we use the framework of critical race theory (CRT) to show how race, language, and schooling have played out in the historical project of the Italian nation-state. We then demonstrate how this historic racialized identity construction is currently excluding immigrants from Italian national identity. Finally, we argue that CRT can be a valuable alternative to intercultural education in that it both addresses the educational needs of immigrant and minority students in Italian schools and challenges racist and anti-immigrant discourses circulating in the broader society.</span></span></span>

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Language testing, ‘integration’ and subtractive multilingualism in Italy: challenges for adult immigrant second language and literacy education

Love

2014

Current Issues in Language Planning

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Since Italy's unification in 1861, the establishment and diffusion of the standard Italian language at the expense of all other linguistic varieties has dominated language and education policy discourses. Today, as Italy has transformed from a country of mass emigration to a country of mass immigration, the language learning of immigrants and refugees has become highly politicized. This politicization was exemplified in 2009 and 2010 when Italian law mandated the passing of a mostly written A2 Italian language test for the renewal of legal immigration documents. As a result, formal language learning has become another potentially prohibitory challenge for the already complicated legal status of many immigrants. This paper explores the historical macro-level discourses and policies concerning multilingualism, education and national identity in Italy from unification to the present context of immigration. Then, it discusses the local-level challenges of providing adult immigrant language and literacy education today. I argue that the politicization of immigrant language learning, with its subtractive instead of additive approach to multilingualism, has become a serious obstacle for the legal and educational outcomes of adult students with little or limited formal education and literacy backgrounds.

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Stephanie V. Love

The Poetics of Grievance: Taxi Drivers, Vernacular Placenames, and the Paradoxes of Post‐Coloniality in Oran, Algeria☆

Race, Language, and Schooling in Italy’s Immigrant Policies, Public Discourses, and Pedagogies

Language testing, ‘integration’ and subtractive multilingualism in Italy: challenges for adult immigrant second language and literacy education

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