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Identity is a problematic concept in-as-much-as we recognise it now
as non-fixed, non-rigid and always being co-constructed by
individuals of themselves, or by people who share certain core
values or perceive another group as having such values. This volume
re-examines the analytical tools employed in the sociolinguistic
research of 'identity' in order to assess their efficiency,
establish the roles of language in the identity claims of specific
communities of people, and determine the place of identity in a
variety of social contexts, including work places and language
classrooms. It will be of interest to academics researching
sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and second language learning.
This is an eclectic collection of essays which successfully
demonstrate how the Sociology of Language and Religion as a
disciplinary paradigm responds to change, conflict and
accommodation. The multiple religious coverage in the essays
(Judaism, Christianity, Islam) as well as more or less global
panorama.
This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the
social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie
research into it. Reflecting critically on economic migration and
on the process of studying and creating knowledge about it, the
contributors address the question of whether recent enquiries into
modernity bring a newer and better comprehension of the nature of
dislocation and movement, or whether these serve simply to
replicate familiar modes of placing people and individuals. The
book is organized into perspectives in and on specific continents -
Europe, Asia and Africa - in order to explore notions regarding
economic migration within and across regions as well as towards
displacing the Eurocentrism of many studies of migration.
This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the
social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie
research into it. Reflecting critically on economic migration and
on the process of studying and creating knowledge about it, the
contributors address the question of whether recent enquiries into
modernity bring a newer and better comprehension of the nature of
dislocation and movement, or whether these serve simply to
replicate familiar modes of placing people and individuals. The
book is organized into perspectives in and on specific continents -
Europe, Asia and Africa - in order to explore notions regarding
economic migration within and across regions as well as towards
displacing the Eurocentrism of many studies of migration.
In 2010, billions of naira were spent to celebrate the 50th
anniversary of Nigeria's independence since 1960. More naira are to
be spent in 2014 to commemorate the centenary marking the nation's
birth in 1914 from an amalgamation of diverse group of peoples,
languages, cultures and expectations. As the conscience of the
nation, writers are calling for a deeper introspection. A hundred
years after unification, the most populous African nation has
oscillated from being great to being fickle, from colony to
independence and dependency, from peace to war to ungraceful
insecurity, from military dictatorship to civilian oppression and
profligacy and much more of the many contradictions of a complex
national polity. In this special collection Poems for a Century: An
Anthology on Nigeria, poets from different backgrounds, generations
and persuasions explore what it means to be a citizen of this
unique African country. Shifting from despair to hope, lamentation
to happiness, condemnation to adoration and every gamut of
sensibilities imaginable, the contributors reiterate the notion of
engagement and the power of the written word to push for social
change in their beloved nation. In fifty poems, Nigeria becomes the
muse not just to raise questions about its past experiences and
present contexts, but also to posit aspirations for a better
nation. Contributors: Sulaiman Adebowale, Kole Ade-Odutola, Toyin
Adewale-Gabriel, Richard Ali, Ifi Amadiume, Afam Akeh, Tade Akin
Aina, Peter Akinlabi, Funso Aiyejina, Ismail Bala, John Pepper
Clark, Omohan Ebhodaghe, Amatoritsero Ede, Hope Eghagha, Ogaga
Ifowodo, Zainabu Jallo, Adebayo Lamikanra, Akeem Lasisi, Okinba
Launko, Chidi Anthony Opara, Uche Nduka, Obi Nwakanma, Cyril Obi,
Olu Oguibe, Tolu Ogunlesi, Tanure Ojaide, Tope Omoniyi, Femi
Oyebode, Jekwu Ozoemene, Remi Raji, E. E. Sule, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu,
Sumaila Umaisha, Olajumoke Verissimo, Molara Wood, and Prince
Abiathar Zadok.
This is an eclectic collection of essays which successfully
demonstrate how the Sociology of Language and Religion as a
disciplinary paradigm responds to change, conflict and
accommodation. The multiple religious coverage in the essays
(Judaism, Christianity, Islam) as well as more or less global
panorama.
In this witty but serious collection, the poet looks askance at
injustices and pains of the present and recent past. In the title
poem and others, he asks, 'how the hell/Chicken generals figured
they could run a nation/From the DIY book of trash'. Other targets
includes generals or executors, and the apolitical - pacifists and
the apathetic, and the hypocrisy of the wealthy 'who bake the
crumbs/to feed continents of beggars/that hide behind cliched
histories'. Protest poetry at least offers some hope - a voice. The
poet urges, 'rise poets, write/fight and bite/and die for price/set
kites to flight/and fife for life/rise poets rise'. Omoniyi is a
senior lecturer in English and Modern Language at the University of
Surrey, in the UK. Many of these poems have previously appeared in
journals in Africa, Asia, Europe and the US.
Across the social and behavioural sciences there has been an
increased interest in identity as a subject of inquiry. Despite
this, there remain questions to which researchers need to find
answers and challenges to be made to older paradigms of analysis in
order to continue to push the frontiers of knowledge in this
research domain. Identity is a problematic concept inasmuch as we
recognise it now as non-fixed, non-rigid and always being
co-constructed by individuals of themselves, or by people who share
certain core values or perceive another group as having such
values. This volume re-examines the analytical tools employed in
the sociolinguistic research of 'identity' in order to assess their
efficiency, establish the roles of language in the identity claims
of specific communities of people, and determine the place of
identity in a variety of social contexts, including work places and
language classrooms. It will be of interest to academics and
students working in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and
second language learning.
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