Superdiversity Discourse

Abstract

Super-diversity discourse is a relatively new, primarily academic discourse whose increasing presence in the domains of social work, institutional policy, urban and national politics, and

Of straw figures and multi-stakeholder monitoring – a response to Willem Schinkel

“…10-11) is a core principle in thinking through and with superdiversitybut benchmarks are movable, we know. Complex descriptions of the workings of multidimensional, temporally shifting and spatially configured differentiations are central and as some note superdiversity "discards [ …] old binaries of national culture versus minority cultures, natives versus migrants, and local versus global" (Arnaut & Spotti, 2015, p. 1453. The notion was termed by a scholar who does not subscribe to multiculturealism (Vertovec, 2010), it is not about estimating degrees of membership and in terms of its functions, superdiversity is not "purified of race and class".…”

Simultaneity and the refusal to choose: The semiotics of Serbian youth identity on Facebook

“…First, the very concept of scale implies simultaneity (Arnaut & Spotti 2014), as various levels of meaning-making and recognition are always going on at once. For our framework, scale refers to the various nested or overlapping levels at which semiotic meaning is negotiated simultaneously.…”

“…Although the importance of linguistic simultaneity has long been recognized (Woolard 1998), the concept is underexamined in recent analyses of language use in globalized, digital contexts such as social media (but see Arnaut & Spotti 2014). Drawing from an analysis of everyday Facebook posts from youth in Belgrade, Serbia, this article proposes that at least four types of simultaneity-of features (i.e.…”

Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Globalization, and Superdiversity

“…According to Arnaut and Spotti (2015), the sociolinguistics that feeds into superdiversity, while heir to a "linguistics of contact" (Pratt, 1987), builds heavily on the Gumperzian and Hymesian traditions that have been outlined in the previous section. While locating and articulating the agentive and resistant dimensions of multimodal and multilingual languaging, it projects itself to map ideological dynamics in the form of emerging normativities of new, national as well as post-national, regimes of surveying and controlling diversity, heteronormativity, and so on.…”