Short description:

This collection explores way in which women in academia from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds mediate the negotation between linguistic discrimination and linguistic diversity in higher education, using autoethnography. This book will be of interest to scholars in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies.

Long description:

This collection explores the ways in which women in academia from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds mediate the negotiation of linguistic discrimination and linguistic diversity in higher education, using autoethnography to make visible their lived experiences.

The volume shows how women in academia from CaLD backgrounds, particularly those living or working in the Global South, draw on their multivalent complex linguistic backgrounds and cultural repertoires to cope with, and manage, linguistic and systemic gender discrimination. In adopting authoethnography as its key methodology, the book encourages these academics to ?write themselves? beyond the conventions from which women in academia have traditionally been forced to speak and write. The collection features perspectives from women across geographic contexts, sub-fields and levels of experience whose stories are not often told, putting at the fore their narratives, lived experiences and career trajectories in mediating issues around power, ideology, language policy, social justice, teaching and learning, and identity construction. In so doing, the book challenges the wider field to expand the borders of discussions on linguistic discrimination and higher education institutions to critically engage with these issues.

This book will be of interest to scholars in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and cultural studies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Linguistic discrimination and diversity from an autoethnographic perspective (Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson and Maggie McAlinden) 1. Speaking across difference: Autoethnography as a living practice of resistance and truth-telling (Marilyn Metta) Part 1: Autoethnographies: East Asia 2. Folk theories of hierarchies of things and spaces in between (Zhu Hua) 3. As rare as unicorns (Saba Ghezili and Angel M.Y. Lin) 4. The unbearable weight of the accent (Yue Zhao and Qian Gong) 5. The academic transitions of Mongolian postgraduate students in Australia (Bolormaa Shinjee,Chuluuntumur Damdin, Hana Tserenkhand Byambadash, Nandin- Erdene Bayart and Stephanie Dryden) 6. More than below, but not quite above: Alterity, exclusion and silence at ?home? (Uma Jogulu and Maggie McAlinden) 7. Feminist reflection on academic life trajectories: The constant ?becoming? (Shalia Sultana, Preeti Singh and Ulemj Dovchin) 8. Autoethnographic narratives from two South Asian researchers in global health (Jaya A.R. Dantas and Zakia Jeemi) Part 3: Autoethnographies: South America 9. South to North: Diversity as an academic asset (Celeste Rodríguez Louro and Lucía Fraiese) 10. Gender, racial and social discrimination in academic studies in Brazil: A personal testimony (Gladis Massini-Cagliari) Part 4: Autoethnographies: Africa 11. Negotiating and (re)constructing identities as translingual female Mauritian academics (Mylene Biquette, Nirvana Lavictoire and Toni Dobinson) 12. Negotiating identity and language: A reflexive account of Ghanaian and Iraqi migrant academic women in the Global North (Davida Aba Mensima Asante-Nimako, Shaymaa Ali, Ana Tankosić) Part 5: Autoethnographies: Eastern Europe 13. From self- doubt to resilience: Lived experiences of four Ukrainian female academics coming to Australia (Tetiana Bogachenko, Iryna Khodos, Nadezhda Chubko and Larysa Chybis) 14. Sliding cultures: Unrecognised cultural and linguistic diversity in academia (Sonja Kuzich, Toni Dobinson) Afterword: Negotiating linguistic discrimination and diversity from an autoethnographic perspective (Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson and Maggie McAlinden)