“…In an attempt to theorise such complexity, Heugh () advances an interesting, but we feel somewhat problematic, notion of ‘mestizo consciousness’. Originally coined by the Argentinian philosopher Rodolfo Kusch, ‘mestizo consciousness’ encapsulates the experience ofdisplacement (from the Northern centre), being of migrant background, recognizing not‐belonging; yet living and working in and recognizing the complexities of community relationships with (well‐) being, knowledge, and the cosmos.…”
Section: The Loci Of Enunciation and The Conundrum Of Writing About Omentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Admittedly, ‘mestizo’ here ‘does not refer to people of mixed ancestry (Mignolo ) but rather to a consciousness arrived at through a lived understanding of both Indigenous and European (northern) world views’ (Heugh : 212). However, re‐signification and re‐appropriation of ‘mestizo’ do not lead to the erasure of the semantic pedigree of a word (cf.…”
Section: The Loci Of Enunciation and The Conundrum Of Writing About Omentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We prefer, instead, the notions of the ‘borderland’ and the ‘interstice’, inspired by Anzaldúa's () important, but somewhat neglected, work on gender, sexuality and multilingualism at the boundaries between U.S. hegemonic discourses and Chicanx minority positions (see also Heugh ). As Anzaldúa powerfully puts it: ‘In the Borderlands you are the battleground where enemies are kin to each other; you are at home, a stranger […]’ (Anzaldúa : 216–217).…”
Section: The Loci Of Enunciation and The Conundrum Of Writing About Omentioning
This article frames the Special Issue on ‘Discourse, Gender and Sexuality from the Global South’. It does so by providing an overview of the notion of the South in the social sciences and the humanities. We engage, in particular, with current theoretical discussions around a set of concepts and approaches that have been labelled ‘southern theories’, ‘theories from the south’, or ‘southern epistemologies’. Against this backdrop, we explain why southern perspectives are needed in the study of discourse, gender and sexuality, and sociolinguistics more broadly. We then offer a reflection on our (and our contributors’) ‘loci of enunciation’ (Bhabha ), before concluding with a summary of the articles in this Special Issue and their relations to the points raised in this introduction.
“…In an attempt to theorise such complexity, Heugh () advances an interesting, but we feel somewhat problematic, notion of ‘mestizo consciousness’. Originally coined by the Argentinian philosopher Rodolfo Kusch, ‘mestizo consciousness’ encapsulates the experience ofdisplacement (from the Northern centre), being of migrant background, recognizing not‐belonging; yet living and working in and recognizing the complexities of community relationships with (well‐) being, knowledge, and the cosmos.…”
Section: The Loci Of Enunciation and The Conundrum Of Writing About Omentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Admittedly, ‘mestizo’ here ‘does not refer to people of mixed ancestry (Mignolo ) but rather to a consciousness arrived at through a lived understanding of both Indigenous and European (northern) world views’ (Heugh : 212). However, re‐signification and re‐appropriation of ‘mestizo’ do not lead to the erasure of the semantic pedigree of a word (cf.…”
Section: The Loci Of Enunciation and The Conundrum Of Writing About Omentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We prefer, instead, the notions of the ‘borderland’ and the ‘interstice’, inspired by Anzaldúa's () important, but somewhat neglected, work on gender, sexuality and multilingualism at the boundaries between U.S. hegemonic discourses and Chicanx minority positions (see also Heugh ). As Anzaldúa powerfully puts it: ‘In the Borderlands you are the battleground where enemies are kin to each other; you are at home, a stranger […]’ (Anzaldúa : 216–217).…”
Section: The Loci Of Enunciation and The Conundrum Of Writing About Omentioning
This article frames the Special Issue on ‘Discourse, Gender and Sexuality from the Global South’. It does so by providing an overview of the notion of the South in the social sciences and the humanities. We engage, in particular, with current theoretical discussions around a set of concepts and approaches that have been labelled ‘southern theories’, ‘theories from the south’, or ‘southern epistemologies’. Against this backdrop, we explain why southern perspectives are needed in the study of discourse, gender and sexuality, and sociolinguistics more broadly. We then offer a reflection on our (and our contributors’) ‘loci of enunciation’ (Bhabha ), before concluding with a summary of the articles in this Special Issue and their relations to the points raised in this introduction.
“…In these entanglements, we also draw upon or calque the notion of a 'state of exception' (Agamben, 2005) to suggest that there are historical moments of exception when, as a result of human mobility, multilingualisms reecologise along horizontal axes of conviviality, and/or re-index along vertical axes of exclusion (cf. Heugh, 2017). We also suggest that the disappearing and reappearing, or rerouting and rooting of multilingualisms is not only multidimensional, but also multifaceted.…”
In this paper we draw attention to people who journey from one temporal and spatial setting towards another in the 'South', who aspire to a reconfigured sense of belonging, prosperity and wellbeing, and their multilinguality and multilingualisms. Through three vignettes of journeys we illustrate how in changing of place that linguistic diversities are encountered and mediated. During moments of North-South and South-South entanglement and exception we argue that multilingualisms re-ecologise along horizontal axes of conviviality, and / or reindex along vertical axes of exclusion. We suggest that 'rooting' and 'rerouting' multilingualisms are not only multidimensional, but they are also multifaceted as people who choose or are obliged to experience displacement, undertake journeys of anticipation of replacement into regulated or unregulated situations. Multilingualisms in the memories, dreams, complex selves, materiality and complicities of coping have yet to receive sufficient attention from linguists. We attempt to capture these aspects and suggest that southern multilingualisms have much to offer and entice northern multilingualisms. We illustrate how closely integrated are multilingual repertoires with mobilities and temporalities of dislocation and change; with loss, nostalgia and the anticipation of new beginnings; and with multi-scaled complicities between individuals as they re-calibrate lives in turbulent and changing circumstances. indexed legitimacy and either conviviality or trickery. In the last vignette, a particular exercise of multilingualism serves as one among many other 'technologies' to drown the multivocality of an asylum seeker/ undocumented migrant. Each of these facets, we suggest, is indicative of centuries, perhaps millennia, of experiences that weave tapestries of complex multilingualisms in southern memory.
“…From these northern metropoles, it has had eight years of charmed passage across platforms of considerable influence (several major international conferences, particularly in the USA), and then exported to southern contexts, such as South Africa (cf. Heugh 2015Heugh , 2017Heugh , 2018. At first, the interest was with translanguaging as pedagogy in the context of bilingual education (Wales) (Williams, 1996), and then in post-or beyond-.…”
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