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*RUNNER UP FOR 2022 BAAL BOOK PRIZE* Community, solidarity and multilingualism in a transnational social movement presents a critical sociolinguistic ethnography of the Emmaus movement that analyses linguistic and discursive practices in two local communities in order to provide insight into solidarity discourses and transnational communication more broadly. Integrating perspectives from a range of disciplines, the monograph seeks to understand the ways in which social movements are maintained across disparate communities grounded in shared cultural referents and communicative practices but not necessarily a shared language. The book focuses on Emmaus, the solidarity movement that emerged in post-war France which brings formerly marginalised people together with others looking for an alternative lifestyle into live-in communities dedicated to recycling work and social projects. The book first offers a historical overview of the Emmaus movement more generally, moving into an account of its development and spread across national and linguistic borders. The volume draws on data from two Emmaus communities in Barcelona and London to analyse the everyday communicative and discursive practices that appropriate and resignify the shared transnational movement ideas in different socio-political, economic, historical and linguistic contexts. Community, solidarity and multilingualism in a transnational social movement considers the social implications of local practices on the situated (re)production and evolution of transnational social movements more generally and will be of particular interest to students and researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse studies, cultural studies, and sociology.

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Author:   Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780367534530

ISBN 10:   0367534533
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   29 April 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Language, discourse and transnationalism in a social movement xx Emmaus as a holistic social movement xx Investigating sociolinguistic articulation across borders xx Theoretical approaches xx Critical ethnographic sociolinguistics xx Transnational social movements xx Community as a nexus xx An ethnographic journey into a transnational field xx Access, collaboration and positioning xx An ethnographic toolbox xx Structure of the book xx Chapter 2: Historicising the transnational expansion of a social movement through key events and texts xx Introduction xx Transnational and multilingual expansion of a French movement xx Foundation and ""Catacombs period"" (1949-1954) xx ""Insurrection of Goodness"" in France (1954) and early expansion (1955-1969) xx From the First World Assembly (1969) to the politicisation of the movement (1988) xx Historicising religion and politics in two different Emmaus communities xx Faith traditions and socio-political activism xx Emmaus Barcelona: Progressive Catholicism and post-‘68 activism xx Emmaus London: Charity and social enterprise xx Concluding remarks: A solidarity mission over time xx Chapter 3: Transnational articulation and socialisation through the Emmaus founding story xx Introduction: A social movement tells a ""new story"" xx Conceptual framework: Collective identity through narrative chronotopes xx ""A story of us"": A chronotopic analysis of the Emmaus origin story xx An ethnographic analysis of the movement’s founding story in situated interactions xx Socialisation into ""stories of us"": Oral storytelling and semiotic artefacts xx ""Stories of self"": Personal narratives of transformation xx Concluding remarks: Creating sameness in the Emmaus social movement xx Chapter 4: Discursive localisations of solidarity in two socio-political contexts xx Introduction xx ""Towards other reasons to live"": Alter-globalisation discourses in Emmaus Barcelona xx Snapshot: ""Stories of now"" in socio-political activism xx Zooming in: A residential project for migrants xx ""Emmaus, the homeless charity that works"": Discourses of reciprocity and skilling in the UK xx Snapshot: ""Stories of now"" in homeless activation xx Zooming in: Voluntary work schemes for the homeless xx Concluding remarks: Solidarity at the intersection of transnational trends, nation-state regimes and individual trajectories xx Chapter 5: Language ideologies for negotiating positioning in the Emmaus social movement xx Introduction xx Two distinct visions of Emmaus as a movement xx Emmaus as a ""multi-national of the heart"" xx Emmaus as a rhizomatic network xx Constructing positioning in Emmaus through language ideologies of lingua francas xx Deproblematising language: French and Spanish as lingua francas in a Catalan community xx Problematising language: Tensions between English and French in a recent English community xx Concluding remarks: Ideologies of multilingualism and positioning in the movement xx Chapter 6: Linguistic nationalism and the erasure of multilingualism in local Emmaus communities xx Constructing language: Between fixity and fluidity in localities xx Fitting into (linguistic) nationalism xx Emmaus London: Constructing a monolingual space in an English charity xx Emmaus Barcelona: Tensions between monolingual and bilingual norms xx Backgrounding multilingualism in everyday practices xx Emmaus London: Institutional erasure of multilingual biographies xx Emmaus Barcelona: Multilingualism and new migrants xx Concluding remarks: Nationalist ideologies in a transnational social movement xx Chapter 7: Language, transnational solidarity and utopia in an imagined community xx Emmaus as a utopia made of ""walking words"" xx What’s the (hi)story? Key findings about Emmaus as a social movement xx Towards a sociolinguistics of transnationalism xx What now? The story continues xx Appendix 1: Universal Manifesto of the Emmaus movement (1969) Appendix 2: Abbé Pierre’s Radio Appeal on 1st February 1954 (short version) Appendix 3: Orientations – Propositions – Questions adopted at the 6th Emmaus International General Assembly in Verona (1988) Appendix 4: Transcription conventions References Index"

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Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà is Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

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