Introduction: Linguistic discrimination and diversity from an autoethnographic perspective
Abstract
This edited volume seeks to call for new ways to understand the negotiation between linguistic discrimination and linguistic diversity by exploring autoethnographies from women academics from culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) and/or Global South backgrounds. While seeking to manage and cope with the lived experience of linguistic discrimination, on top of continued systematic gender discrimination, and sexism, these women academics may often seek to empower themselves through linguistic diversity – that is, available multiple linguistic resources and cultural repertoires embodied within their identities. It is useful to understand the conceptual understanding of linguistic discrimination in terms of its negotiation with linguistic diversity as they are co-constructive and intersectional. The point is not to focus away from linguistic discrimination in favour of a broad analysis of linguistic diversity, but rather to bring these two perspectives into alignment with each other and ask: how do women in academia negotiate linguistic discrimination through linguistic diversity in their daily professional and personal lives? This book centres on the autoethnographic perspectives, narratives, stories, lived experiences and career trajectories of women in academia to explore how their lived experiences are shaped by both linguistic discrimination and diversity and how this is manifested in their day-to-day lived experiences.
Document Type
Editorial
Date of Publication
1-1-2023
School
School of Education
Copyright
subscription content
Publisher
Routledge / Taylor & Francis
Comments
Dovchin, S., Gong, Q., Dobinson, T., & McAlinden, M. (2023). Introduction: Linguistic discrimination and diversity from an autoethnographic perspective. In S. Dovchin, Q. Gong, T. Dobinson & M. McAlinden (Eds.), Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia (pp. 1-14). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003317128-1