Ashraf Abdelhay
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 209410 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ashraf Abdelhay |
| NOMBRES | Ashraf |
| APELLIDO | Abdelhay |
| FIRMA | ABDELHAY A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8800-9207 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Makoni, Sinfree
This entry on Sinfree Makoni traces the historical, political, and social conditions that shaped his intellectual trajectory and theoretical orientations. It reviews the academic and administrative roles he played in various institutions whether in Africa, Europe, and America. With respect to his scholarly works, the entry classified the works into a nexus of thematic categories in order to detect how his thinking developed over time in a complex…
Critical Applied Linguistics
Within a sea of dominant and counter voices, applied linguistics experienced a surge in publications that express unease with the exclusionary practices of the discipline and indicate that declared values of diversity and inclusion were nothing but strategic hyperbole. Applied linguistics has seen a significant increase in publications that call out practices that sustain inequality within applied linguistics. Research in CAL also has grappled wi…
Ethics in Qualitative Applied Linguistics Research
This chapter problematizes the concept of ethics in qualitative applied linguistics research by considering Southern epistemologies. This means that we avoid a universal ethical approach applied to research by arguing in favor of a radical, situated approach of research. This concern also includes a shift in the extractivist nature of fieldwork toward a responsive and dialogical approach that includes other voices as authors in the process of kno…
Postcolonial Language Policy and Planning and the Limits of the Notion of the Modern State
In this review, we discuss the limits of the concept of the modern nation-state to explore language issues in postcolonial contexts, as in Africa. We argue in favor of a revision of the history of the field of language policy and planning (LPP) and sociolinguistics, paying attention to how the colonial issue has been erased and downplayed. We first explore the colonial history of LPP and how this field contributed to frame African multilingualism…
The politics of southern research in language studies
In this epilogue we connect contemporary discussion concerning Southern epistemologies and methodologies in language studies with decolonizing Higher Education. This means that we cannot divorce Southern epistemologies from the regimes of truth that guide the modes of production, dissemination and appropriation of knowledge in the global world, which also includes the discussion concerning ethics and positionality in research. We argue that this …
Translanguaging in the Global South
(2020). Translanguaging in the Global South. Scrutiny2: Vol. 25, Multilingualism and Translanguaging in Higher Education Institutions, pp. 104-109
The cultural politics of language in Sudan
The sociolinguistic repertoires of individuals in Sudan are products of institutionalised orders of normalisation. The visibility of language in popular and official discourses in Sudan is always linked with wider cultural and political projects. This paper intends to engage with and explicate this observation by, first, examining how the dominant ideology of language operates in practice in Sudan, and second, by inspecting how it is contextually…
The semiotic landscaping of heritage
This paper investigates the semiotic landscape of one of the significant spaces in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Al-Manṭiqa al-Tarikhiyya in Jeddah (Historic District/Historic Jeddah). It intends to achieve two key objectives: first, to situate al-Manṭiqa al-Tarikhiyya in wider historical contexts by inspecting its conditions of (re)constitution across various temporal and spatial orders of social life. Our observation here is that although lingui…
The colonial linguistics of governance in Sudan
This paper explores the discursive history of 'language-making' in the context of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, focusing on a significant colonial moment of standardisation: The Rejaf Language Conference (RLC) of 1928. Through inspecting the report of the proceedings of the RLC, the paper contends that this institutional event contributed to the construction of racial and regional differences by, then: (1) being informed by scientific theories of rac…
Arabicisation and the Khartoum Arabic Language Academy
In this paper, we review the historical and cultural worldliness of the Khartoum Arabic Language Academy with a focus on its linguistic ideology of operation and discursive representation. The paper has three key objectives: first, to show that Arabic language academies emerged as decolonising institutions in a context of struggle to fix the ‘image’ of Arabic through specific textual practices of representation. We inspect how the naturalising ef…
The Naivasha language policy
The sociolinguistics of nationalism in the Sudan
This monograph describes the historiography of language ideologies that led to the politicisation of Arabic and the Arabicisation of politics in the Sudan, starting from British colonial rule until the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that was a precursor to the separation of the South as an independent state. The monograph shows that the politicisation of Arabic in the Sudan is largely a product of British colonial language planning practices that …
A critical commentary on the discourse of language rights in the Naivasha language policy in Sudan using habitus as a method
This article uses Bourdieu's theory of practice to discuss the discourse of language rights in the Naivasha language policy in Sudan. The article argues that understanding language as a form of practice inseparable from the whole class habitus leads to the avoidance of any monothetic and totalizing discourses that treat language as a self-sufficient code. Instead, it argues for a recognition of the temporality and multidirectionality of language …
The politics of writing tribal identities in the Sudan
Linguistics is implicated in the colonial project of the invention of ‘self-contained’ ‘racial’ and ‘tribal units’ in the Sudan. This paper has two objectives. First, to historicise the notions of ‘language’ in the postcolonial discourse of language planning in the Sudan by reviewing one of the significant colonial policies: the colonial Nuba Policy. The analysis shows that the colonial Nuba Policy intended to build up artificial racial tribal Nu…
The Benefits of Famine
David Keen’s The Benefits of Famine is an updated paperback of the original 1994 edition, with a new foreword by the historian Douglas Johnson. The author presents a well-documented and historically informed statement on the ‘politics of famine’ in Sudan, with a focus on its functions. Keen problematizes the notion of ‘famine’ in international and mainstream academic discourse as ‘a natural disaster’. He shows how different forces and players inc…
The sociolinguistics of nationalism in the Sudan
This monograph describes the historiography of language ideologies that led to the politicisation of Arabic and the Arabicisation of politics in the Sudan, starting from British colonial rule until the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that was a precursor to the separation of the South as an independent state. The monograph shows that the politicisation of Arabic in the Sudan is largely a product of British colonial language planning practices that …
The Naivasha language policy
The colonial linguistics of governance in Sudan
This paper explores the discursive history of 'language-making' in the context of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, focusing on a significant colonial moment of standardisation: The Rejaf Language Conference (RLC) of 1928. Through inspecting the report of the proceedings of the RLC, the paper contends that this institutional event contributed to the construction of racial and regional differences by, then: (1) being informed by scientific theories of rac…
The politics of writing tribal identities in the Sudan
Linguistics is implicated in the colonial project of the invention of ‘self-contained’ ‘racial’ and ‘tribal units’ in the Sudan. This paper has two objectives. First, to historicise the notions of ‘language’ in the postcolonial discourse of language planning in the Sudan by reviewing one of the significant colonial policies: the colonial Nuba Policy. The analysis shows that the colonial Nuba Policy intended to build up artificial racial tribal Nu…
Postcolonial Language Policy and Planning and the Limits of the Notion of the Modern State
In this review, we discuss the limits of the concept of the modern nation-state to explore language issues in postcolonial contexts, as in Africa. We argue in favor of a revision of the history of the field of language policy and planning (LPP) and sociolinguistics, paying attention to how the colonial issue has been erased and downplayed. We first explore the colonial history of LPP and how this field contributed to frame African multilingualism…
The cultural politics of language in Sudan
The sociolinguistic repertoires of individuals in Sudan are products of institutionalised orders of normalisation. The visibility of language in popular and official discourses in Sudan is always linked with wider cultural and political projects. This paper intends to engage with and explicate this observation by, first, examining how the dominant ideology of language operates in practice in Sudan, and second, by inspecting how it is contextually…
A critical commentary on the discourse of language rights in the Naivasha language policy in Sudan using habitus as a method
This article uses Bourdieu's theory of practice to discuss the discourse of language rights in the Naivasha language policy in Sudan. The article argues that understanding language as a form of practice inseparable from the whole class habitus leads to the avoidance of any monothetic and totalizing discourses that treat language as a self-sufficient code. Instead, it argues for a recognition of the temporality and multidirectionality of language …
The politics of writing tribal identities in the Sudan
Linguistics is implicated in the colonial project of the invention of ‘self-contained’ ‘racial’ and ‘tribal units’ in the Sudan. This paper has two objectives. First, to historicise the notions of ‘language’ in the postcolonial discourse of language planning in the Sudan by reviewing one of the significant colonial policies: the colonial Nuba Policy. The analysis shows that the colonial Nuba Policy intended to build up artificial racial tribal Nu…
The Benefits of Famine
David Keen’s The Benefits of Famine is an updated paperback of the original 1994 edition, with a new foreword by the historian Douglas Johnson. The author presents a well-documented and historically informed statement on the ‘politics of famine’ in Sudan, with a focus on its functions. Keen problematizes the notion of ‘famine’ in international and mainstream academic discourse as ‘a natural disaster’. He shows how different forces and players inc…
The Naivasha language policy
The sociolinguistics of nationalism in the Sudan
This monograph describes the historiography of language ideologies that led to the politicisation of Arabic and the Arabicisation of politics in the Sudan, starting from British colonial rule until the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that was a precursor to the separation of the South as an independent state. The monograph shows that the politicisation of Arabic in the Sudan is largely a product of British colonial language planning practices that …
The semiotic landscaping of heritage
This paper investigates the semiotic landscape of one of the significant spaces in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Al-Manṭiqa al-Tarikhiyya in Jeddah (Historic District/Historic Jeddah). It intends to achieve two key objectives: first, to situate al-Manṭiqa al-Tarikhiyya in wider historical contexts by inspecting its conditions of (re)constitution across various temporal and spatial orders of social life. Our observation here is that although lingui…
The colonial linguistics of governance in Sudan
This paper explores the discursive history of 'language-making' in the context of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, focusing on a significant colonial moment of standardisation: The Rejaf Language Conference (RLC) of 1928. Through inspecting the report of the proceedings of the RLC, the paper contends that this institutional event contributed to the construction of racial and regional differences by, then: (1) being informed by scientific theories of rac…
Arabicisation and the Khartoum Arabic Language Academy
In this paper, we review the historical and cultural worldliness of the Khartoum Arabic Language Academy with a focus on its linguistic ideology of operation and discursive representation. The paper has three key objectives: first, to show that Arabic language academies emerged as decolonising institutions in a context of struggle to fix the ‘image’ of Arabic through specific textual practices of representation. We inspect how the naturalising ef…
The cultural politics of language in Sudan
The sociolinguistic repertoires of individuals in Sudan are products of institutionalised orders of normalisation. The visibility of language in popular and official discourses in Sudan is always linked with wider cultural and political projects. This paper intends to engage with and explicate this observation by, first, examining how the dominant ideology of language operates in practice in Sudan, and second, by inspecting how it is contextually…
Translanguaging in the Global South
(2020). Translanguaging in the Global South. Scrutiny2: Vol. 25, Multilingualism and Translanguaging in Higher Education Institutions, pp. 104-109
Postcolonial Language Policy and Planning and the Limits of the Notion of the Modern State
In this review, we discuss the limits of the concept of the modern nation-state to explore language issues in postcolonial contexts, as in Africa. We argue in favor of a revision of the history of the field of language policy and planning (LPP) and sociolinguistics, paying attention to how the colonial issue has been erased and downplayed. We first explore the colonial history of LPP and how this field contributed to frame African multilingualism…
The politics of southern research in language studies
In this epilogue we connect contemporary discussion concerning Southern epistemologies and methodologies in language studies with decolonizing Higher Education. This means that we cannot divorce Southern epistemologies from the regimes of truth that guide the modes of production, dissemination and appropriation of knowledge in the global world, which also includes the discussion concerning ethics and positionality in research. We argue that this …
Critical Applied Linguistics
Within a sea of dominant and counter voices, applied linguistics experienced a surge in publications that express unease with the exclusionary practices of the discipline and indicate that declared values of diversity and inclusion were nothing but strategic hyperbole. Applied linguistics has seen a significant increase in publications that call out practices that sustain inequality within applied linguistics. Research in CAL also has grappled wi…
Ethics in Qualitative Applied Linguistics Research
This chapter problematizes the concept of ethics in qualitative applied linguistics research by considering Southern epistemologies. This means that we avoid a universal ethical approach applied to research by arguing in favor of a radical, situated approach of research. This concern also includes a shift in the extractivist nature of fieldwork toward a responsive and dialogical approach that includes other voices as authors in the process of kno…
Makoni, Sinfree
This entry on Sinfree Makoni traces the historical, political, and social conditions that shaped his intellectual trajectory and theoretical orientations. It reviews the academic and administrative roles he played in various institutions whether in Africa, Europe, and America. With respect to his scholarly works, the entry classified the works into a nexus of thematic categories in order to detect how his thinking developed over time in a complex…
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