Sangeeta Bagga‐gupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 104485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sangeeta Bagga‐gupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sangeeta |
| FAMILY NAME | Bagga‐gupta |
| SIGNATURE | GUPTA S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jönköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1846-858X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
(Re)imagining (an)other wor(l)d(s) through un disciplinary research. Reflections on epistemic, existential, sustainable, and solidarity-based (E2-S2) work
This essay centers on issues regarding epistemic labor. Drawing on recent thinking that pushes for decolonizing y/our minds , it invites consideration of what happens to y/our imaginaries when you/we allow y/ourselves the freedom to (re)imagine (an)other wor(l)d(s). Through reflections on the nature of human communication and terms related to diversity, empowerment, inclusion/integration, justice... within and outside academic labor, I push for a…
What do Universities Showcase Digitally? Epistemological-methodological Issues and the Role of Higher Educational Institutions in the 21st Century
The study presented in this paper aims to map and illuminate theoretical, methodological, and thematic areas that mark the existing scholarship related to the digital presence of higher education, mainly through universities own websites. 118 articles were identified for further in-depth analysis based on an overarching first-level analysis of over 700 articles through systematic searches in early 2023. Data-sessions across three primary analysis…
‘There is a lot more going on…’ on the whats, whos, wheres, hows in the contemporary scholarship on adult language education for migrants
Center-Staging Decolonial and Southern Thinking for Hopeful Epistemic-Existentially Sustainable Futures
The essay presented in this paper constitutes a reflection based on my explorations of transcending siloed academic areas from Southern or Decolonial frameworks generally and on my reading of the 572-page, 2023 volume Decolonizing The Mind. A guide to decolonial theory and practice by Sandew Hira published by Amrit Publishers more specifically. Aligning with emerging discussions regarding the need to trouble the colonially framed ways of mainstre…
Digital tools and social-ecological sustainability. Going beyond mainstream ways of understanding the roles of tools in contemporary eduscapes
All education in Sweden, or the Swedish eduscape , is permeated by discourses of compensation and inclusion, conceptualized in this study as a one-school-for-all ethos or perspective. This ethos contributes to a social-ecological framing, wherein the intentions are a society where everyone can participate as active members. This study scrutinizes the governmental strategy of 2017 to digitalize the Swedish educational system based on a one-school-…
Epistemic and Existential, E2-sustainability. On the need to un-learn for re-learning in contemporary spaces
This paper contributes to a re-thinking, un-learning, and re-learning agenda by interrogating some core ideas and assumptions related to contemporary societal and planetary concerns, including concerns within the research enterprise. Transcending the first step that calls for pausing and re-thinking, this paper troubles universalizing vocabularies that naturalize conceptual framings and ways/waves-of-being in research and educational practices. F…
Urban contact dialects and language change
Urban contact dialects and language change: Insights from the Global North and SouthPaul Kerswill and Heike Wiese (eds) (2022)New York: Routledge. Pp. 368ISBN: 9781138596092 (hbk)ISBN: 9780429487958 (eBook)
Contemporary issues of languaging, participation and ways-of-being
This paper introduces the theme of Languaging, Diversity and Democracy. Contemporary issues of participation and ways-of-being and positions the 12 individual papers that constitute the 2022 double special issue of Bandung: Journal of the Global South . Its interest lies in contributing to knowledge that is relevant for contemporary human challenges related to issues of mobility, digitalization, and communication in and across different geopoliti…
“Promises in policy” and “policy as participation”
While promises of equity mark (inter)national declarations and laws that contemporary democratic societies subscribe to, accessibility and participation for-all continues to remain out of reach for increasing numbers of people and “named-groups” across the global-North/South. Going beyond issues regarding gaps between progressive policies and people’s accounts of their experiences, this paper illuminates the mundane nature of participation by put…
Liminality, Lim, Mobility and Memory. Disrupting the Nature of Things, Beings and Becomings
Engaging with four geopolitical timespaces, and the concepts of liminality, lim/lines/ borders/boundaries, mobility and memory , against the backdrop of pre-, anti-, post- and de-colonial ideas, this study illustrates how tenets of what we call a “Second Wave of Southern Perspectives” (SWaSP) can illuminate the myths and imaginations that continue to give credibility to the idea of bounded language, identity and nation-states, including the role …
Troubling circulating discourses on planet earth. Attending to complexities through a mobile-loitering gaze
This paper highlights the erasures of normal-languaging and normal-diversities that mark the contemporary human condition. Its aim is to make visible North-centric assumptions regarding the nature of language by asking what, when, why and where language exists and how it plays out in global-local, analogue-digital timespaces. In particular, the study presented in this paper troubles the interrelated ‘webs-of-understandings’ regarding language, id…
Transcending circulations of southern and northern concepts
This paper constitutes an introduction to our special issue on Transcending circulations of southern and northern concepts: Towards mobile and dialogic perspectives on language puts the spotlight on the hegemonies and marginalizations of mainstream academic productions and the circulations of concepts in the contemporary fields that are labelled Multilingualism, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, etc. Transcending the demarcations that have e…
On studying peoples’ participation across contemporary timespaces
This paper presents critical reflections regarding entangled relationships between access, communication and inclusion and illustrates how these play out across multiple analytical scales, ranging from interactional data analysis to engagement with policy data. The study draws on our ethnographic fieldwork from two large projects where roughly 45 18-50+ year-old people have been shadowed across settings. The study aims to illuminate dimensions of…
Nodal frontlines and multisidedness. Contemporary multilingualism scholarship and beyond
At an overarching level this paper attempts to draw attention to emerging trends in the humanities where alternative ways of doing science reconfigure epistemological traditions and research methodologies, the role of intellectuals and their engagement with current conditions of the world, including ways in which scholars gazes are constituted. Drawing on what we call a Second Wave of Southern Perspectives (SWaSP), that sees the entanglements of …
Equity and social justice for whom and by whom in contemporary Swedish higher and adult education
This article focuses on the Swedish context of upper and post-upper secondary education provided in two sectors, universities and the Swedish Folk High School. The article is centred on the analysis of the support services offered by fifty-five university and Swedish Folk High School institutional websites to individuals and groups designated as being ‘peripheral’. Taking as a point of departure a ‘practiced policies’ theoretical position, the st…
Virtual Sites as Learning Spaces
This volume fills a gap in the literature between the domains of Communication Studies and Educational Sciences across physical-virtual spaces. The chapters focus on languaging - communicative practices in the making - and its intersection with analogue and virtual learning spaces
Meaning-making or heterogeneity in the areas of language and identity? The case of translanguaging and nyanlända (newly-arrived) across time and space
The study presented here, theoretically framed at the crossroads of sociocultural and decolonial perspectives, draws attention to the sudden proliferation of two specific neologisms in the area of language, education and identity across time and space. It particularly highlights concerns regarding the ways in which these are deployed within scholarship and in schools and teacher education currently in the nation-state of Sweden. The analysis pres…
Identity Revisited and Reimagined
Practiced Linguistic-Cultural Ideologies and Educational Policies
This article explores linguistic-cultural ideologies and educational policies as they emerge and are negotiated in everyday life in a bilingual school setting located in the geopolitical spaces of Sweden. Taking sociocultural theory and discourse analysis as points of departure, we focus on empirical examples of classroom interaction and locally established formal policing. Linguistic-cultural ideologies and educational policies that frame life a…
Communicating and Hand(ling) Technologies. Everyday Life in Educational Settings Where Pupils With Cochlear Implants Are Mainstreamed
Different technologies are commonly used in mainstream classrooms to teach pupils who wear surgically implanted cochlear hearing aids. We focus on these technologies, their application, how pupils react to them, and how they affect mainstream classrooms in S weden. Our findings indicate that language ideologies play out in specific ways in such technified environments. The hegemonic position wielded by adults with regard to the use of technology …
Communication in the virtual classroom in higher education
Shifting identity positions in the development of language education for immigrants
The study presented in this paper focuses upon conceptualisations of language and identity in the institutionalised arena that emerged in the post-Second World War period with the specific intention of teaching Swedish to adult immigrants in the nation-state of Sweden. Our analysis focuses upon the development of the educational programme ‘Swedish for immigrants’ over time. Our specific interest relates to how categorisations are framed and what,…
Creating and (re)negotiating boundaries
This article brings together salient findings regarding communication and identity through studies of everyday social practices, studies of discourses about these practices and policy documents pertaining to special schools from previous and ongoing ethnographic projects based at the KKOM-DS (Communication, Culture and Diversity – Deaf Studies) research group in Sweden. Central findings regarding the complex nature of language usage in these ‘bil…
Visual Language Environments. Exploring everyday life and literacies in Swedish Deaf bilingual schools
Visual Language Environments. Exploring everyday life and literacies in Swedish Deaf bilingual schools
Meaning-making or heterogeneity in the areas of language and identity? The case of translanguaging and nyanlända (newly-arrived) across time and space
The study presented here, theoretically framed at the crossroads of sociocultural and decolonial perspectives, draws attention to the sudden proliferation of two specific neologisms in the area of language, education and identity across time and space. It particularly highlights concerns regarding the ways in which these are deployed within scholarship and in schools and teacher education currently in the nation-state of Sweden. The analysis pres…
Nodal frontlines and multisidedness. Contemporary multilingualism scholarship and beyond
At an overarching level this paper attempts to draw attention to emerging trends in the humanities where alternative ways of doing science reconfigure epistemological traditions and research methodologies, the role of intellectuals and their engagement with current conditions of the world, including ways in which scholars gazes are constituted. Drawing on what we call a Second Wave of Southern Perspectives (SWaSP), that sees the entanglements of …
Practiced Linguistic-Cultural Ideologies and Educational Policies
This article explores linguistic-cultural ideologies and educational policies as they emerge and are negotiated in everyday life in a bilingual school setting located in the geopolitical spaces of Sweden. Taking sociocultural theory and discourse analysis as points of departure, we focus on empirical examples of classroom interaction and locally established formal policing. Linguistic-cultural ideologies and educational policies that frame life a…
Shifting identity positions in the development of language education for immigrants
The study presented in this paper focuses upon conceptualisations of language and identity in the institutionalised arena that emerged in the post-Second World War period with the specific intention of teaching Swedish to adult immigrants in the nation-state of Sweden. Our analysis focuses upon the development of the educational programme ‘Swedish for immigrants’ over time. Our specific interest relates to how categorisations are framed and what,…
Creating and (re)negotiating boundaries
This article brings together salient findings regarding communication and identity through studies of everyday social practices, studies of discourses about these practices and policy documents pertaining to special schools from previous and ongoing ethnographic projects based at the KKOM-DS (Communication, Culture and Diversity – Deaf Studies) research group in Sweden. Central findings regarding the complex nature of language usage in these ‘bil…
Visual Language Environments. Exploring everyday life and literacies in Swedish Deaf bilingual schools
Creating and (re)negotiating boundaries
This article brings together salient findings regarding communication and identity through studies of everyday social practices, studies of discourses about these practices and policy documents pertaining to special schools from previous and ongoing ethnographic projects based at the KKOM-DS (Communication, Culture and Diversity – Deaf Studies) research group in Sweden. Central findings regarding the complex nature of language usage in these ‘bil…
Communication in the virtual classroom in higher education
Shifting identity positions in the development of language education for immigrants
The study presented in this paper focuses upon conceptualisations of language and identity in the institutionalised arena that emerged in the post-Second World War period with the specific intention of teaching Swedish to adult immigrants in the nation-state of Sweden. Our analysis focuses upon the development of the educational programme ‘Swedish for immigrants’ over time. Our specific interest relates to how categorisations are framed and what,…
Communicating and Hand(ling) Technologies. Everyday Life in Educational Settings Where Pupils With Cochlear Implants Are Mainstreamed
Different technologies are commonly used in mainstream classrooms to teach pupils who wear surgically implanted cochlear hearing aids. We focus on these technologies, their application, how pupils react to them, and how they affect mainstream classrooms in S weden. Our findings indicate that language ideologies play out in specific ways in such technified environments. The hegemonic position wielded by adults with regard to the use of technology …
Practiced Linguistic-Cultural Ideologies and Educational Policies
This article explores linguistic-cultural ideologies and educational policies as they emerge and are negotiated in everyday life in a bilingual school setting located in the geopolitical spaces of Sweden. Taking sociocultural theory and discourse analysis as points of departure, we focus on empirical examples of classroom interaction and locally established formal policing. Linguistic-cultural ideologies and educational policies that frame life a…
Identity Revisited and Reimagined
Meaning-making or heterogeneity in the areas of language and identity? The case of translanguaging and nyanlända (newly-arrived) across time and space
The study presented here, theoretically framed at the crossroads of sociocultural and decolonial perspectives, draws attention to the sudden proliferation of two specific neologisms in the area of language, education and identity across time and space. It particularly highlights concerns regarding the ways in which these are deployed within scholarship and in schools and teacher education currently in the nation-state of Sweden. The analysis pres…
Virtual Sites as Learning Spaces
This volume fills a gap in the literature between the domains of Communication Studies and Educational Sciences across physical-virtual spaces. The chapters focus on languaging - communicative practices in the making - and its intersection with analogue and virtual learning spaces
Equity and social justice for whom and by whom in contemporary Swedish higher and adult education
This article focuses on the Swedish context of upper and post-upper secondary education provided in two sectors, universities and the Swedish Folk High School. The article is centred on the analysis of the support services offered by fifty-five university and Swedish Folk High School institutional websites to individuals and groups designated as being ‘peripheral’. Taking as a point of departure a ‘practiced policies’ theoretical position, the st…
On studying peoples’ participation across contemporary timespaces
This paper presents critical reflections regarding entangled relationships between access, communication and inclusion and illustrates how these play out across multiple analytical scales, ranging from interactional data analysis to engagement with policy data. The study draws on our ethnographic fieldwork from two large projects where roughly 45 18-50+ year-old people have been shadowed across settings. The study aims to illuminate dimensions of…
Nodal frontlines and multisidedness. Contemporary multilingualism scholarship and beyond
At an overarching level this paper attempts to draw attention to emerging trends in the humanities where alternative ways of doing science reconfigure epistemological traditions and research methodologies, the role of intellectuals and their engagement with current conditions of the world, including ways in which scholars gazes are constituted. Drawing on what we call a Second Wave of Southern Perspectives (SWaSP), that sees the entanglements of …
Contemporary issues of languaging, participation and ways-of-being
This paper introduces the theme of Languaging, Diversity and Democracy. Contemporary issues of participation and ways-of-being and positions the 12 individual papers that constitute the 2022 double special issue of Bandung: Journal of the Global South . Its interest lies in contributing to knowledge that is relevant for contemporary human challenges related to issues of mobility, digitalization, and communication in and across different geopoliti…
“Promises in policy” and “policy as participation”
While promises of equity mark (inter)national declarations and laws that contemporary democratic societies subscribe to, accessibility and participation for-all continues to remain out of reach for increasing numbers of people and “named-groups” across the global-North/South. Going beyond issues regarding gaps between progressive policies and people’s accounts of their experiences, this paper illuminates the mundane nature of participation by put…
Liminality, Lim, Mobility and Memory. Disrupting the Nature of Things, Beings and Becomings
Engaging with four geopolitical timespaces, and the concepts of liminality, lim/lines/ borders/boundaries, mobility and memory , against the backdrop of pre-, anti-, post- and de-colonial ideas, this study illustrates how tenets of what we call a “Second Wave of Southern Perspectives” (SWaSP) can illuminate the myths and imaginations that continue to give credibility to the idea of bounded language, identity and nation-states, including the role …
Troubling circulating discourses on planet earth. Attending to complexities through a mobile-loitering gaze
This paper highlights the erasures of normal-languaging and normal-diversities that mark the contemporary human condition. Its aim is to make visible North-centric assumptions regarding the nature of language by asking what, when, why and where language exists and how it plays out in global-local, analogue-digital timespaces. In particular, the study presented in this paper troubles the interrelated ‘webs-of-understandings’ regarding language, id…
Transcending circulations of southern and northern concepts
This paper constitutes an introduction to our special issue on Transcending circulations of southern and northern concepts: Towards mobile and dialogic perspectives on language puts the spotlight on the hegemonies and marginalizations of mainstream academic productions and the circulations of concepts in the contemporary fields that are labelled Multilingualism, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, etc. Transcending the demarcations that have e…
Digital tools and social-ecological sustainability. Going beyond mainstream ways of understanding the roles of tools in contemporary eduscapes
All education in Sweden, or the Swedish eduscape , is permeated by discourses of compensation and inclusion, conceptualized in this study as a one-school-for-all ethos or perspective. This ethos contributes to a social-ecological framing, wherein the intentions are a society where everyone can participate as active members. This study scrutinizes the governmental strategy of 2017 to digitalize the Swedish educational system based on a one-school-…
Epistemic and Existential, E2-sustainability. On the need to un-learn for re-learning in contemporary spaces
This paper contributes to a re-thinking, un-learning, and re-learning agenda by interrogating some core ideas and assumptions related to contemporary societal and planetary concerns, including concerns within the research enterprise. Transcending the first step that calls for pausing and re-thinking, this paper troubles universalizing vocabularies that naturalize conceptual framings and ways/waves-of-being in research and educational practices. F…
Urban contact dialects and language change
Urban contact dialects and language change: Insights from the Global North and SouthPaul Kerswill and Heike Wiese (eds) (2022)New York: Routledge. Pp. 368ISBN: 9781138596092 (hbk)ISBN: 9780429487958 (eBook)
Center-Staging Decolonial and Southern Thinking for Hopeful Epistemic-Existentially Sustainable Futures
The essay presented in this paper constitutes a reflection based on my explorations of transcending siloed academic areas from Southern or Decolonial frameworks generally and on my reading of the 572-page, 2023 volume Decolonizing The Mind. A guide to decolonial theory and practice by Sandew Hira published by Amrit Publishers more specifically. Aligning with emerging discussions regarding the need to trouble the colonially framed ways of mainstre…
What do Universities Showcase Digitally? Epistemological-methodological Issues and the Role of Higher Educational Institutions in the 21st Century
The study presented in this paper aims to map and illuminate theoretical, methodological, and thematic areas that mark the existing scholarship related to the digital presence of higher education, mainly through universities own websites. 118 articles were identified for further in-depth analysis based on an overarching first-level analysis of over 700 articles through systematic searches in early 2023. Data-sessions across three primary analysis…
‘There is a lot more going on…’ on the whats, whos, wheres, hows in the contemporary scholarship on adult language education for migrants
(Re)imagining (an)other wor(l)d(s) through un disciplinary research. Reflections on epistemic, existential, sustainable, and solidarity-based (E2-S2) work
This essay centers on issues regarding epistemic labor. Drawing on recent thinking that pushes for decolonizing y/our minds , it invites consideration of what happens to y/our imaginaries when you/we allow y/ourselves the freedom to (re)imagine (an)other wor(l)d(s). Through reflections on the nature of human communication and terms related to diversity, empowerment, inclusion/integration, justice... within and outside academic labor, I push for a…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (16 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works)