Negotiating An Anglophone Identity

Author : Piet Konings,Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047402640

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Negotiating an Anglophone Identity by Piet Konings,Francis B. Nyamnjoh Pdf

This is a significant and timely book on the politics of belonging. It captures, with fascinating detail and insight, the current widespread disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterised much of postcolonial African politics. Until the liberation struggles of the 1990s, dictatorship only paid lip service to democracy with impunity, often by silencing those perceived to threaten national unity. Since then, individuals and groups have reactivated claims to rights and entitlements and nowhere more so than in Cameroon. The book articulates the experiences and predicaments of the country's Anglophone community trapped in a marriage of inconvenience pregnant with tensions and conflicts.

Author : Piet Konings,Francis Beng Nyamnjoh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004132953

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Negotiating an Anglophone Identity by Piet Konings,Francis Beng Nyamnjoh Pdf

This study of Cameroon captures, with fascinating detail and insight, the growing disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterised much of postcolonial African politics. It focuses on the resistance of Anglophone Cameroonians to nationhood, which is being pursued to the detriment of minority identities.

Author : Diane Gérin-Lajoie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442648531

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Negotiating Identities by Diane Gérin-Lajoie Pdf

Diane Gerin-Lajoie uses survey data and the life stories of Anglophone teachers to illustrate the social practices which connect them with their linguistic, cultural, and professional identities.

Author : Diane Gérin-Lajoie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1442617179

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Negotiating Identities by Diane Gérin-Lajoie Pdf

Author : Raylene L. Ramsay
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Colonies in literature
ISBN : 9052016550

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Cultural Crossings by Raylene L. Ramsay Pdf

Hitherto undiscovered yet fundamental historical and literary texts from the Pacific provide the subject matter of this collection of essays which sets out to explore the new forms of writing and hybrid identities emerging from both past and contemporary cultural contact and exchange in the 'South Seas'. This is also a weaving of the connections between Francophone and Anglophone writers long separated by colonial history. Luis Cardoso, writing in Portuguese from East Timor offers further points of contrast. The places of encounter - the beaches of Tahiti, the retelling of the texts of oral tradition, indigenous mastery of writing and appropriation of Western technology, the construction of contemporary Pacific anthologies or emerging post-colonial writing and translation - are sites of interaction and mixing that also involve negotiations of mana or power. From Pierre Loti's mythical and feminised Tahitians to Déwé Gorodé's silenced women, the outcomes of such negotiations are dynamic and different syncretisms. Two chapters reexamine the theoretical concept of hybridity from these Pacific perspectives. Les articles publiés dans le présent recueil explorent les nouvelles formes d'écriture et les identités hybrides issues du creuset des Mers du Sud. Relativement inconnus, les textes au coeur de ces articles n'en sont pas moins les oeuvres fondatrices de la région du Pacifique Sud dont ils constituent la trame historique et littéraire. Longtemps tenus à l'écart les uns des autres par l'histoire coloniale de la région, les textes d'auteurs francophones et anglophones s'enchevêtrent et se recoupent en de multiples domaines. La reprise des textes de tradition orale, l'appropriation autochtone des technologies occidentales, la création d'anthologies contemporaines et l'émergence d'une littérature postcoloniale, sont autant de sites d'interactions et de convergence qui exigent une négociation permanente entre les pouvoirs et mana en présence. C'est une nouvelle facette du concept d'hybridité que nous proposent ces études de la région Pacifique.

Author : Diane Gerin-Lajoie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442617186

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Negotiating Identities by Diane Gerin-Lajoie Pdf

As members of an official linguistic minority in Canada, Anglophone teachers living and working in Quebec have a distinct experience of the relationship between language and identity. In Negotiating Identities, Diane Gérin-Lajoie uses a critical sociological framework to explore the life stories of Anglophone teachers and illustrate the social practices which connect them with their linguistic, cultural, and professional identities. Exploring the complexity of identity as a lived experience, Negotiating Identities demonstrates the strength of language as a political force in these educators’ lives both in the classroom and outside it. Through comparisons with the other official linguistic minority in Canada, the Francophones, and particularly with Franco-Ontarians, this book tells the stories of Quebec’s Anglophone teachers in their own words, providing a unique account of how these individuals make sense of their lives as residents of Quebec.

Author : Toyin Falola,Emmanuel M. Mbah
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666944495

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Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa by Toyin Falola,Emmanuel M. Mbah Pdf

This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary and balanced discussion on the changing dynamics of identities in Africa, with a focus on gender, ethno-cultural, and religious identity.

Author : Yasser Fouad Selim,Eid Mohamed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Group identity in literature
ISBN : 1443859680

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Who Defines Me by Yasser Fouad Selim,Eid Mohamed Pdf

Who Defines Me: Negotiating Identity in Language and Literature is a collection of insightful articles that represent an interdisciplinary study of identity. The articles start from the premise that identity is, and always has been, unstable and mutable; which is to say that identity is constructed and deconstructed and reconstructed â " only to be deconstructed and reconstructed again, in turn to be deconstructed and reconstructed (and so on ad infinitum). Time and place are variables. So, too â " as Who Defines Me underscores â " are ethnicity, religion, politics and power, race and color, nationality, gender, culture, language, and socio-economic status. With all of these variables in mind, Who Defines Me focuses on language and literature as the portal through which identity is explored. The overarching rubrics under which the explorations are conducted are Arabs and Muslims, race identity in America, and language identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198906322

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Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa by Anonim Pdf

In its modern history, Africa has experienced different waves of constitutional ordering. The latest democratisation wave, which began in the 1990s, has set the stage over the past decade for what is now a hotly debated issue: do recent, new, or fundamentally revised constitutions truly reflect an African constitutional identity? Thoughtfully navigating a contested field, this volume brings to the fore a number of foundational questions about African constitutionalism. Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa asks whether the concept of constitutional identity clarifies our understanding of constitutional change in Africa, including an exploration of the relationship between constitutional identity and a country's unique culture(s) and histories. Building on this, contributions examine the persistent role of colonial heritages in shaping constitutional identity in post-Independence African nations, and the question of path-dependency. Given the enduring influence of the colonial experience, the volume asks how, why, and to what end African constitutions must be 'decolonised' to form an authentic constitutional identity. This theoretical insight is supplemented and further deepened by detailed case studies of South Africa, Ethiopia, Cape Verde, Cameroon, and Egypt and their diverse experience of constitutional continuity and change. This volume in the Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law series, brings together contributions from established scholars and emerging voices on the study of constitutional processes. They provide an urgent critical analysis of existing paradigms, concepts and normative ideologies of modern African constitutionalism in the context of constitutional identity.

Author : Chima Jacob Korieh
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781621968740

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Minorities and the State in Africa by Chima Jacob Korieh Pdf

Author : Michael J. Gennaro,Saheed Aderinto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780429668555

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Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation by Michael J. Gennaro,Saheed Aderinto Pdf

Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation explores how sports can render a key to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora. Sports hold significant value and have an intricate relationship with many components of African societies throughout history. For many Africans, sports are a way of life, a site of cultural heroes, a way out of poverty and social mobility, and a site for leisurely play. This book focuses on the many ways in which sports uniquely reflect changing cultural trends at diverse levels of African societies. The contributors detail various sports, such as football, cricket, ping pong, and rugby, across the continent to show how sports lay at the heart of the discourse of nationalism, self-fashioning, gender and masculinity, leisure and play, challenges of underdevelopment, and ideas of progress. Bringing together the newest and most innovative scholarship on African sports, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Africa, African history, culture and society, and sports history and politics.

Author : Robert Talbot
Publisher : Purich Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774880503

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Negotiating the Numbered Treaties by Robert Talbot Pdf

Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North West Territories in the 1870s, was the main negotiator of many of the numbered treaties on the prairies and has often been portrayed as a parsimonious agent of the government, bent on taking advantage of First Nations chiefs and councillors. However, author Robert J. Talbot reveals Morris as a man deeply sympathetic to the challenges faced by Canada's Indigenous peoples as they sought to secure their future in the face of encroaching settlement and the disappearance of the buffalo. Both Morris and the First Nations negotiators viewed the treaties as the basis of a new, reciprocal arrangement, but by the end of his appointment, Morris was seriously at odds with a federal administration that preferred inaction over honouring its treaty promises.

Author : Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780472054138

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Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué Pdf

Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon

Author : Jacqueline Aiello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315299655

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Negotiating Englishes and English-speaking Identities by Jacqueline Aiello Pdf

This book explores the effects of the global spread of English by reporting on a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study of the language attitudes, motivation and self-perceived English proficiency of youth in two Italian cities. Participant narratives highlight the far-reaching role that English plays on the performance and attainment of present and desired future selves, illustrate that English is understood not as singular but as plural and paradoxical, and reveal that English learners, who do not all accept the capital of ‘native’ speakers, utilize tactics to negotiate their position(s) with respect to their target language.? On the one hand, by narrowing in on a specific population and drawing extensively on interview exchanges, this work provides readers with a nuanced depiction of the identities, milieu and learning experiences of English language learners in Italy. On the other hand, this level of detailed analysis gives insight into the understandings, construction of meaning and negotiations of language learners who need and want to acquire English, the global language, worldwide. Indeed, the issues and questions that are raised in this book, such as those concerning research approaches and the definitions assigned to key concepts, have profound implications on the research of English(es) today and can inform future directions in global English teaching.

Author : Rosamond Mitchell,Nicole Tracy-Ventura,Kevin McManus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351762298

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Anglophone Students Abroad by Rosamond Mitchell,Nicole Tracy-Ventura,Kevin McManus Pdf

Anglophone students abroad: Identity, social relationships and language learning presents the findings of a major study of British students of French and Spanish undertaking residence abroad. The new dataset presented here provides both quantitative and qualitative information on language learning, social networking and integration and identity development during residence abroad. The book tracks in detail the language development of participants and relates this systematically to individual participants’ social and linguistic experiences and evolving relationship. It shows that language learning is increasingly dependent on students’ own agency and skill and the negotiation of identity in multilingual and lingua franca environments.