Handbook of Language and Mobility: 19 (Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL], 19) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 150151654X ISBN 13: 9781501516542

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, 2025

Synopsis

The Handbook of Language and Mobility challenges the assumption that mobility is a new norm. It maps new developments in language and mobility scholarship, tracing how the mobility of language, people, and knowledge intersects with multiplicity, infrastructures, historicity, new political formations, and processes of world-making.

By decentering mobility, this handbook questions which processes come to be recognized as mobile, and how mobility is historically shaped, regulated, valued, and stigmatized. By recentering mobility, it explores its productive dimensions – how it sustains and aligns with celebratory ideologies of globalization, technology, and agency, creates value, and contributes to the management and legitimation of difference and inequality. Mobility here is not just about movement – it shapes time, space, subjectivities, power, and systems of accumulation.

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About the Authors

Alfonso Del Percio, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland.

Alfonso Del Percio, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz.

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 150151654X
• ISBN 13: 9781501516542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 465
• Editor: Del Percio Alfonso