Language use on the move: sites of encounter, identities and belonging

Valentine, Gill; Sporton, Deborah; Nielsen, Katrine Bang

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2008.00308.x

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“…to everyday life encounters (Amin 2005, 9). Similarly, by focusing on immigrants and their children, a few scholars have investigated forms of belonging that no longer identify purely with territory, but, for instance, with linguistic commonality (Valentine et al. 2008) or with transnational networks, images, and memories (Bromley 2000; Colombo et al.…”

Section: Rethinking Belonging Beyond Exclusionmentioning

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Searching for Belonging – An Analytical Framework

2010

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Citation: ANTONSICH, M., 2010. Searching for belonging: an analytical framework. Geography Compass, 4 (6), pp.644-659. Additional Information:• This is the accepted version of the article, which has been published in AbstractBelonging is a notion both vaguely-defined and ill-theorized. Scholars in various social disciplines often take this notion for granted, as if its meaning is somewhat selfexplanatory. Others tend to equate it with the notion of identity, citizenship, or both.By relying on a critical reading of an extensive literature across academic disciplines, this article aims to offer an analytical framework for the study of belonging. I argue that belonging should be analyzed both as a personal, intimate, feeling of being 'at home' in a place (place-belongingness) and as a discursive resource which constructs, claims, justifies, or resists forms of socio-spatial inclusion/exclusion (politics of belonging). The risk of focusing only on one of these two dimensions is to fall in the trap of either a socially de-contextualized individualism or an all-encompassing social(izing) discourse. The open question is whether the increasing cultural and ethnic diversification of contemporary societies can lead to the formation of communities of belonging beyond communities of identity.

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Section: Rethinking Belonging Beyond Exclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Searching for Belonging – An Analytical Framework

2010

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“…English is acquired most successfully when a child's first language has been allowed to develop alongside it (Baker 2000, Cummins 2000, Skutnabb-Kangas 2000. Valentine et al (2008) suggested that this might include the provision of more opportunities and incentives for schools to broaden the curriculum to incorporate more modern languages teaching -recognizing the increasingly diverse range of linguistic needs and competencies of their pupils and parents/families thereby promoting multilingualism. The issues of language, identity and social change in Scotland should be discussed in schools.…”

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Spaces of Not Belonging: Inclusive Nationalism and Education in Scotland

Moskal

2015

Scottish Geographical Journal

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“…Further, they show that the Polish language school creates a space 'where cultural differences are being articulated' and are in process (Valentine et al 2008: 376). The spaces created by this form of tourism enable (re)articulations of cultural identities in place, rather than focusing on where these identities were originally formed (Valentine et al 2008). Citing Wenger (1998: 215), Valentine et al (2008: 377) argue that language learning 'transforms who we are .…”

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Language Tourism in Poland

Drozdzewski

2011

Tourism Geographies

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This paper explores the drivers for language tourism through an examination of a group of foreign students studying the Polish language in Poland. Travel for education represents a growing sector of the international tourist market. Polish language courses for foreigners are an emergent form of tourism in Poland. This research examines two distinct groups of Polish language students: those with and without Polish heritage. For those students with Polish heritage, drivers for tourism have been considered within the context of diaspora tourism. Learning Polish is part of these students' wider search to (re)connect with the ancestral language and culture. Overall, learning, self-development and cultural immersion have been integral stopovers on their tourism experiences.

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Language use on the move: sites of encounter, identities and belonging

Cited by 77 publications

References 24 publications

Searching for Belonging – An Analytical Framework

Searching for Belonging – An Analytical Framework

Spaces of Not Belonging: Inclusive Nationalism and Education in Scotland

Language Tourism in Poland

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