The marginalisation of voice in the fight against climate change: The case of Lusophone Africa

Hunter, N.B.; North, Michelle A.; Slotow, Rob

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.03.012

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“…This paper joins recent calls for a pluralistic approach to biodiversity science and policy (Coscieme et al, 2020;Hunter et al, 2021;Klütsch & Ferreira, 2021;Obermeister, 2019;Pascual et al, 2021) and proposes to go one step further. We argue that plural perspectives cannot be achieved without multilingualism in the sources and processes, especially for organizing knowledge coproduction that underpins highlevel governance of science/policy initiatives such as those associated with the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).…”

Section: The Imp Ortan Ce Of L Ang Uag Ementioning

confidence: 74%

“…The linguistic bias adds a layer of complexity to the power dynamics deeply rooted in the peer‐review system of the ‘Western’ academia, as it leaves non‐English publications, criticisms and debates simply off the radar (Hunter et al, 2021, p. 217). Translating or writing works from other languages and traditions into English would make these works visible to the readers of English, but it does not guarantee that these works will be considered seriously and included.…”

Section: Linguistic Bias In Global Environmental Reports and Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Multilingualism for pluralising knowledge and decision making about people and nature relationships

2023

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1. The need for a pluralistic approach to biodiversity conservation science and policy is increasingly being recognized. We argue that plural perspectives require multilingualism in the sources and processes.2. Unless the linguistic bias and the related issues in terms of legitimacy and validity, resistance to inclusion, and knowledge coproduction are meaningfully addressed, biodiversity science and its positive effects for conservation policy and practices will necessarily be limited.3. We propose a series of options to address the linguistic biases in biodiversity conservation science and policy, including extending and tightening collaboration with environmental humanities scholars from diverse traditions as well as researchers from diverse linguistic contexts. 4. We conclude by showing how multilingualism is especially relevant for cross-scale and global biodiversity governance.

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Section: The Imp Ortan Ce Of L Ang Uag Ementioning

confidence: 74%

Section: Linguistic Bias In Global Environmental Reports and Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multilingualism for pluralising knowledge and decision making about people and nature relationships

2023

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“…Furthermore, the need for language professionals in healthcare is not only limited to translators working on written text, but plays a key role in facilitating oral communication between patients and healthcare providers serving the role of cultural brokers (Dohan and Levintova, 2007[133]; Hull, 2016 [134]; Messias, McDowell and Estrada, 2009 [135]), bridging the cultural divide that often exists between patients with limited language proficiency and clinicians. Because lack of language proficiency often coexist with individuals having an immigrant background or belonging to cultural minorities in a country, medical interpreters often play a role not only in delivering technically accurate information through translations but also using culturally specific and appropriate phrasing.…”

Section: Box 35 Linguistic Barriers In Healthcare: Opportunities and ...mentioning

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Not lost in translation

2023

OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

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NOT LOST IN TRANSLATION UnclassifiedOECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers www.oecd.org/els/workingpapers OECD Working Papers should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its member countries. The opinions expressed and arguments employed are those of the author(s).Working Papers describe preliminary results or research in progress by the author(s) and are published to stimulate discussion on a broad range of issues on which the OECD works. Comments on Working Papers are welcomed, and may be sent to

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“…These variations and omissions in the classification and counting of scholarly texts contribute to the skewing toward publications in high-status journal indexes in any discussions of research production and policies of evaluation. This skewing hampers accountings of the totality of what scholars produce, notably communications in multiple languages and for different audiences (see, e.g., Hunter et al, 2021, for the example of research publications on climate change). The hyper focus on English tends to obscure the enduring value of other publications – in all languages – both to academics and to knowledge production in general.…”

Section: Multilingualism As the Hidden Norm Of Academic Publicationmentioning

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Multilingualism in academic writing for publication: Putting English in its place

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Lillis

2022

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We are living in an era characterized by multilingualism, global mobility, superdiversity (Blommaert, 2010), and digital communications. Mobility and multilingualism, however, have long characterized most geolinguistic contexts, including those where monolingual ideologies have influenced the formation of contemporary nation states (Cenoz, 2013). As language is a pillar of both curriculum and instruction, in many academic spaces around the world efforts are on the rise to acknowledge the colonial origins of English, decenter the dominance of Standard English(es), and decolonize knowledge production (e.g., Bhambra et al., 2018; de Sousa Santos, 2017). Additionally, many ‘inner circle’ (Kachru, 2001) Anglophone contexts have long witnessed the centrifugal forces of multilingualism. Yet what prevails in institutional academic contexts is a centripetal pull toward what has been captured in phrases such as ‘linguistic mononormativity’ (Blommaert & Horner, 2017) or ‘Anglonormativity’ (McKinney, 2017). Nowhere is this pull more evident than in the sphere of writing for publication, relentlessly construed as an ‘English Only’ space, as exemplified in Elnathan's (2021) claim in the journal Nature: ‘English is the international language of science, for better or for worse.’

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The marginalisation of voice in the fight against climate change: The case of Lusophone Africa

Cited by 12 publications

References 34 publications

Multilingualism for pluralising knowledge and decision making about people and nature relationships

Multilingualism for pluralising knowledge and decision making about people and nature relationships

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Multilingualism in academic writing for publication: Putting English in its place

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