The centre for multilingualism and diversities research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
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2014
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
There is an urgency in theorising how
diversity is negotiated, communicated,
and disputed as a matter of everyday
ordinariness that is compounded by the
clear linkages between diversity, transformation,
voice, agency, poverty and
health. The way in which difference is
categorised, semiotised and reconfigured
in multiple languages across quotidian
encounters and in public and media forums
is a central dynamic in how poverty
and disadvantage are distributed and reproduced
across social and racial categorisations.
In the South African context,
finding ways of productively harnessing
diversity in the building of a better society
must be a priority.
The South African context with
its history of apartheid and on-going
contemporary post-apartheid transformation
is a veritable laboratory for the
study of forms of conflict and conviviality
in diversity. South Africa is a society
characterised by historical displacements
and contemporary mobilities, both social
and demographic, where a large part
of people�s daily life involves negotiating
diversity, dislocation, relocation and
anomie, while at the same time attempting
to pursue aspirations of mobility in a
context of continuing inequity.
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University of the Western Cape, Centre for Multilingualism, Diversities Research, South Africa
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Stroud, C (2014)The centre for multilingualism and diversities research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Multilingual Margins,1(1): 121�131