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Thursday, 25th July, 12:00 EDT:
This week features a journal article by Arthur Gaillard, currently an independent scholar.
The chapter is entitled ‘Eurocentric Monolingualism In The Evaluation Of Sport For Development Programmes’.
As ever, please see the info from Arthur below, and a link to the file at the bottom of this page. See you on Thursday!
Abstract:
This draft was originally written targeting the Sociology of Sport Journal. The data and arguments mostly come from an ethnographic chapter of my PhD thesis.
Towards the last stages of preparing this draft, I have realised that I might have gone one step beyond what I should have been writing. I feel like this paper should be the second of a series of three articles on the sociolinguistics of knowledge production in Sport for Development. This paper should be preceded by another paper where I note the lack of engagement of Sport for Development research and practice with linguistic issues. I do that (too?) rapidly in this paper on page 3 (paragraph starting with “languages are key vehicles) and page 15 (paragraph starting with “the structures of SfD”). My intuition is that I should produce three articles:
- Article 1: a review paper noting the lack of engagement of SfD research and practice with linguistic issues
- Article 2 (broadly corresponding to this draft): an empirical paper showing how this lack of engagement unfolds in practice.
- Article 3: a theoretical paper taking the case of sociolinguistics to illustrate how SfD is an active vehicle of epistemic coloniality through engaging with the decolonial concept of “coloniality of language”.
Please take this into account when reading and preparing the discussion. Otherwise, I look forward to discussing any other aspects of this draft.
Thanks in advance for reading.
Arthur
This Week’s File:
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