1. Engaging Superdiversity: The Poiesis-Infrastructures Nexus and Language Practices in Combinatorial Spaces

Arnaut, Karel; Karrebæk, Martha Sif; Spotti, Massimiliano

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“…Although infrastructures can possess a particular robustness, the impression of a coherent whole also mystifies the fluid and transforming nature of the infrastructures themselves. This is most clearly emphasized in anthropological literature, which indicates that infrastructures emerge out of continuous infrastructuring practices (Arnaut et al 2016;Calhoun et al 2013).…”

Section: Third Arrival Infrastructures As Emerging From Social Practicesmentioning

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“…The combination of migratory turbulence and polycentric interventions of reception, regulation, and repression across urban spaces formed the vantage point for thinking through the notion of urban arrival infrastructures. The conceptual elaboration subsequently took place in the aftermath of the Brussels workshop, in myriad conversations among the editors and the authors, which were boosted by the rapidly expanding and entwining bodies of literature on infrastructure and the spatiotemporality of migration from different corners of the social and human sciences (Green 2017;Arnaut, Karrebaek, and Spotti 2016;Blommaert 2014;Kleinman 2014;Hall, King, and Finlay 2015).…”

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Migration and the Infrastructural Politics of Urban Arrival

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Heur

Arnaut

2018

Arrival Infrastructures

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Section: Third Arrival Infrastructures As Emerging From Social Practicesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Migration and the Infrastructural Politics of Urban Arrival

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Heur

Arnaut

2018

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“…Moreover, while infrastructures are (partly) the product of planning processes 'from above,' infrastructures also emerge out of continuous infrastructuring practices 'from below,' as is most clearly emphasised in anthropological literature (Arnaut, Karrebaek, & Spotti, 2016;Calhoun, Sennett, & Shapira, 2013). Likewise, drawing on Star (1999), Graham and Thrift (2007) argue in favour of an academic engagement with the continuous practices of maintenance and repair that sustain infrastructure.…”

Section: Infrastructures and Infrastructuring Workmentioning

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Broadening the Urban Planning Repertoire with an ‘Arrival Infrastructures’ Perspective

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In this article we propose an arrival infrastructure’s perspective in order to move beyond imaginaries of neighbourhoods as a ‘port of first entry’ that are deeply ingrained in urban planning discussions on migrants’ arrival situations. A focus on the socio-material infrastructures that shape an arrival situation highlights how such situations are located within, but equally transcend, the territories of neighbourhoods and other localities. Unpacking the infrastructuring work of a diversity of actors involved in the arrival process helps to understand how they emerge through time and how migrants construct their future pathways with the futuring possibilities at hand. These constructions occur along three dimensions: (1) Directionality refers to the engagements with the multiple places migrants have developed over time, (2) temporality questions imaginaries of permanent belonging, and (3) subjectivity directs attention to the diverse current and future subjectivities migrants carve out for themselves in situations of arrival. This perspective requires urban planners to trace, grasp and acknowledge the diverse geographies and socio-material infrastructures that shape arrival and the diverse forms of non-expert agency in the use, appropriation and fabrication of the built environment in which the arrival takes place.

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“…It can therefore also be read as the core of 'superdiversity' as a research programme. See Arnaut (2016); Arnaut, Karrebaek and Spotti (2017); Blommaert and Rampton (2016). Odile Heynders (2016), in an insightful study, examines how such diasporic public spheres have altered the nature and impact of writers as public intellectuals.…”

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“…Recall what Appadurai meant by this delicate concept: the fact that globalized societies (and there are none that are not globalized) must be comprehended through the interplay of large and small structures, through disciplined attention to the big translocal things and their interactions with the small local ones -what Arnaut, Karrebaek and Spotti (2017) aptly call the 'poeisis-infrastructures nexus'. This nexus is the intersection of locally contextualized practices of meaning-making with higher-scale conditions for meaning-making.…”

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Durkheim and the Internet

Blommaert¹

2018

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Whenever we do research, we carry along large sets of assumptions, often tacitly and often without much critical reflection. These assumptions are a form of imagination, and they consist of images of social actions and the contexts in which they are situated, all of which we presume to be adequately represented and enacted in the empirical data we examine and, by implication, validating the actual ways we examine such data. Since these sets of assumptions are often shared by large bodies of researchers, they also identify and define disciplines, schools and trends of scholarship-again often tacitly and without being made too often into objects of inquiry in their own right. In this book, I shall engage with such deeply rooted, widespread and defining assumptions in a very broad field of studies of language-in-society, for which I propose to use the label of 'sociolinguistics' as an ad hoc shorthand, mainly for reasons of editorial parsimony but also for more substantial reasons. My own work over three decades has been performed under a variety of labels, from 'pragmatics' and 'discourse analysis', via 'literacy studies', 'narrative studies', 'linguistic landscape studies', 'social media studies', 'educational linguistics' and 'linguistic ethnography', to 'sociolinguistics' and 'linguistic anthropology' (with an occasional foray into 'linguistics' and 'literary studies'). It was held together, in spite of its diversity, by central concern about the complex place of language in society, the dialectics that tied language and society together, and the difficulties of decoding, understanding and explaining such ties-a central concern which is fundamentally ' sociolinguistic', if you wish. AQ: Per OED, 'ad hoc' and other standard non-English words are unhyphenated even when used as adjectives.

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1. Engaging Superdiversity: The Poiesis-Infrastructures Nexus and Language Practices in Combinatorial Spaces

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Migration and the Infrastructural Politics of Urban Arrival

Migration and the Infrastructural Politics of Urban Arrival

Broadening the Urban Planning Repertoire with an ‘Arrival Infrastructures’ Perspective

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