Diversity and contested social identities in multilingual and multicultural contexts of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorBanda, Felix
dc.contributor.authorPeck, Amiena
dc.date.accessioned25/04/2017 08:14
dc.date.available25/04/2017 08:14
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractWe draw on Rampton's Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents (2014. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge) notion of 'crossing' to explore contestations in ethnolinguistic, cultural and racial affiliations at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), a university built for 'Coloureds' in apartheid South Africa, but which rebelled by admitting students of all races and ethnic backgrounds. Using interviews and observation data, we show contestations around Xhosa and Afrikaans as languages for black and coloured solidarity, respectively. We argue that the multilingual and multicultural contexts in place entail that social legitimacy is not achieved through fixed linguistics forms, bounded ethnolinguistic categories and predetermined racial characteristics but in negotiated in-group and out-group codes all of which are part of the students' repertoire. We conclude that diversity is a function of discourses of convergence and divergence as social practice, which give the institution its unique character. The contestations and contradictions thus reflect the democratic conditions on which discourses of diversity are produced and consumed by the multiple socio-cultural range of student populace.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationBanda, F. & Peck, A. (2015). Diversity and contested social identities in multilingual and multicultural contexts of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 37(6).en_US
dc.identifier.issn0143-4632
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2756
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2015.1106547
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author version of the article found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2015.1106547
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectDiscourseen_US
dc.subjectCrossingen_US
dc.subjectExclusionen_US
dc.subjectSocial identitiesen_US
dc.subjectDiversityen_US
dc.titleDiversity and contested social identities in multilingual and multicultural contexts of the University of the Western Cape, South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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