Language, gender and sexuality in 2020

Abstract

The Global South is a postcolonial imagined community that bears the potential to imagine powerful south-south solidarity between the struggles for decoloniality of diverse populations across the world. To prepare our field’s pan-global future, this year-in-review overrepresents literature on gender, sexuality and language from/on the Global South. This decolonial move aims to notice and promote southern tactics of resistance, southern epistemologies and southern theories and evaluate what can be learnt if we look southward on our way forward. Some literature from the Global North will be considered too. The review is structured using three overlapping foci: (1) embodied and linguistic resistance, (2) mediatisation and scale and (3) fragile masculinities. I conclude by suggesting that our research should stay locally situated and globally radical.

Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication

“…I would like to frame it, using similar language, as a strong ideological constraint by which taken-for-granted presuppositions about international or even inter-regional relations impact on interaction, influencing whose bodies end up bearing the most weight. It is an order that, in many places around the world, cannot be separated from imperial and colonial histories, which cannot easily be separated from gender injustices (Singh 2021). This geopolitical ideological constraint applies to what we see, as academics, both in our lenses and in our mirrors; it has impact on interactions in our data and in the academic conversations we initiate, join, and sustain.…”