View the recorded talk here.
Abstract:
The challenge of contemporary South Africa is that of building a (post)nation of postracial equity in a fragmented world of a globalized ethical, economic and ecological meltdown. Yet, for some time now, language communities and individuals that had experienced linguistic discrimination under apartheid, and continue to experience so today, have been engaged in forms of non-racial struggles for sociolinguistic justice that aim to redefine their agency and voice, and thereby their linguistic citizenship. And central to such activism has been the use of global Englishes with local languages and varieties.
In my presentation, firstly, I put forward the argument that one particular variety of South African English, Coloured English (CE), while often used as a resource in the practice of non-racial sociolinguistic justice, continues to be a racializing technology that define discriminatory practices against language communities and individuals who