Case study 4 - Brussels June 2015 Slides

1. Linguistic Vulnerability
and Language Learning
in the Peripheries
Case Study 4: Multilingual Ecologies in the
American Southwest Borderlands
Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona

2. An invisible border can be a barrier
all the same.
Borders make worlds

3. “local possibilities and limitations”
(Blommaert, Collins, & Slembrouck, 2005)

4. Access Restrictions

5. Genre Trouble

6. Affect Aliens

7. Further Questions
 How might vulnerability, in the ways described,
factor into our understanding of multilingual
research practices and researcher professional
development?
 How might vulnerability as a principle inform
multilingual advocacy, in particular contexts of
higher education out of which researchers are
born?