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13 - Afterword

Precarity and Playfulness as Forms of Life

from Part IV - Ways Forward

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2024

By
Daniel N. Silva
Edited by
Sender Dovchin ,
Rhonda Oliver  and
Li Wei
Sender Dovchin
Affiliation:
Curtin University, Perth
Rhonda Oliver
Affiliation:
Curtin University, Perth
Li Wei
Affiliation:
Institute of Education, University of London
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Summary

In this Afterword, I provide additional comments on Sender Dovchin, Rhonda Oliver, and Li Wei’s edited book’s central argument, namely that a rather romanticized view of translingualism as the celebration of playfulness despite the precarious conditions of life of translingual users needs to be addressed. The chapters in this book do an interesting reading of precarity in terms of ontology, social practices, and the conditions of inequality in today’s world. To further enrich the response to the critique that translanguaging scholarship ignores the actually existing conditions of precarity and suffering under neoliberalism, I draw on my own experience as an editor of an applied linguistics journal in Brazil and on the (in)securitization of everyday life experienced by interlocutors in my fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro favelas. I conclude that imagining forms of life that do not surrender to or freeze in the face of precarity seems to be an urgent task for sociolinguists.

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precaritytranslanguagingplayfulnessfavelascapitalism.
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Translingual Practices
Playfulness and Precariousness
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Afterword
  • Edited by Sender Dovchin, Curtin University, Perth, Rhonda Oliver, Curtin University, Perth, Li Wei, Institute of Education, University of London
  • Book: Translingual Practices
  • Online publication: 07 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009072779.014
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  • Edited by Sender Dovchin, Curtin University, Perth, Rhonda Oliver, Curtin University, Perth, Li Wei, Institute of Education, University of London
  • Book: Translingual Practices
  • Online publication: 07 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009072779.014
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  • Afterword
  • Edited by Sender Dovchin, Curtin University, Perth, Rhonda Oliver, Curtin University, Perth, Li Wei, Institute of Education, University of London
  • Book: Translingual Practices
  • Online publication: 07 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009072779.014
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