Lim et al, 2018_ The Multilingual Citizen

The final session summarizes some of the previous findings by pointing at the instigating understanding of citizenship as acts and speakers as agents of change.  We will draw on Christopher Stroud's understanding of "linguistic citizenship" as an angle that invites us to turn our understandings of language upside down.  Linguistic citizenship "refers to what people do with and around language(s) in order to position themselves agentively, and to craft new, emergent subjectivities of political speakerhood, often outside of those prescribed or legitimated in institutional frameworks of the state".  By following one artistic instance of linguistic citizenship based in South Africa, we will discuss how this can be explored in our own daily environments. To discuss this watch the following film