Kerfoot, C and Hyltenstam, K. (Eds.). 2017. Entangled Discourses: South-North Orders of Visibility. New York and London: Routledge

Abstract

Kerfoot and Hyltenstam’s edited volume grew out of a symposium in honour of Christopher Stroud on his 60th birthday. The symposium, and later the volume, focused on Stroud’s work on the formation of mobilities as they arise through, the entanglements of identities, histories, languages, and literacies in variously complex societal contexts. Most chapters in the book extended the presentations from the conference. Others focus on notions of entangled discourses, orders of visibility, and the South-North dimensions of power and knowledge. The work hopes to add to the development of a sociolinguistics of the South and the sociolinguistics of multilingualism. The volume further aims to comprehend the North in the South, and the South in the North by exploring the evolving discourses from excluded, silenced, and marginalized populations such as refugees, immigrants, and ethnic minorities. The interaction of North-South perspectives across contexts opens up opportunities for new dominant theories. The books contribution lies in the understanding of North-South realities, as well as the challenges arising from the configurations of identity, race, class, ethnicity, and gender. The book also focusses on linguistic diversity as managed in northern and southern education, health care and other settings.