Lara Alonso
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lara Alonso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lara |
| FAMILY NAME | Alonso |
| SIGNATURE | ALONSO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | CUNY Graduate Center , New York , USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8459-1976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In search of sociolinguistic justice: Mobilizing Transformative Agency Through Action Research
Transformative actions for sociolinguistic equity: Mobilizing Students' Agency at University
This paper explores the concept of agency for social transformation and its mobilization through a participatory action research project developed with students from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. The research, which was longitudinal and employed ethnographic and participatory approaches, was based on critical pedagogy to raise awareness about the role of language in reproducing social inequaliti…
Raciolinguistic perspective on labor in the Americas: Introduction to this special issue
This introduction presents the concept of raciolinguistic ideologies and discusses its potential to look at issues related to labor in the Americas. We explore the concept of raciolinguistics as a helpful anchor for researchers to examine the co-construction of race and language. Additionally, we link the current reproduction of social and economic inequality to the interconnection of slavery and capitalism stemming from the colonial projects. We…
Habilidad o identidad: Tensiones entre las ideologías neoliberales y las raciolingüísticas en el trabajo de los y las jóvenes bilingües de origen latino en Eeuu
Este artículo explora la tensión entre las ideologías lingüísticas neoliberales que señalan el valor económico del lenguaje en la economía globalizada y los procesos raciolingüísticos que co-naturalizan la raza y la lengua. Enfocándonos en el mercado laboral estadounidense, analizamos las experiencias de jóvenes profesionales de origen latino que, inspirados por la ideología de la ventaja bilingüe, esperan sacar provecho de sus habilidades lingüí…
Crítica de Martín Rojo & Del Percio (2020): Language and Neoliberal Governmentality
Latinxs’ bilingualism at work in the US: Profit for whom
In the current context of a globalized economy, bilingualism is increasingly portrayed as a resource for corporations and for workers competing for jobs in today’s slim market. In this paper we analyze the economic value of languages other than English in the US, Spanish in particular. Working from a political economy perspective and drawing from current theoretical approaches to language and labor under neoliberalism, we examine the reproduction…
The Language Warriors: Transcending ideologies on bilingualism in education
This article explores how middle school youth view bilingualism and act on these views to transform their school and their communities. Following a post-structuralist perspective on language and society, a lens from raciolinguistic ideologies, and a creative justice approach, we developed a Participatory Action Research project in which seventh and eighth grade students became co-researchers as we explored how to make bilingualism more welcome in…
The glotopolítica of English teaching to Latinx students in the US
Using a lens from the theoretical perspective of glotopolítica, an approach described in this chapter, we examine the ideologies behind English language teaching of Latinx students in the US by analysing the assumptions about language, bilingualism, and language education that are part of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). We argue that the standards display a technical perspective of language which views English as an autonomous neutral lin…
The Language Warriors: Transcending ideologies on bilingualism in education
This article explores how middle school youth view bilingualism and act on these views to transform their school and their communities. Following a post-structuralist perspective on language and society, a lens from raciolinguistic ideologies, and a creative justice approach, we developed a Participatory Action Research project in which seventh and eighth grade students became co-researchers as we explored how to make bilingualism more welcome in…
Latinxs’ bilingualism at work in the US: Profit for whom
In the current context of a globalized economy, bilingualism is increasingly portrayed as a resource for corporations and for workers competing for jobs in today’s slim market. In this paper we analyze the economic value of languages other than English in the US, Spanish in particular. Working from a political economy perspective and drawing from current theoretical approaches to language and labor under neoliberalism, we examine the reproduction…
Transformative actions for sociolinguistic equity: Mobilizing Students' Agency at University
This paper explores the concept of agency for social transformation and its mobilization through a participatory action research project developed with students from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. The research, which was longitudinal and employed ethnographic and participatory approaches, was based on critical pedagogy to raise awareness about the role of language in reproducing social inequaliti…
The glotopolítica of English teaching to Latinx students in the US
Using a lens from the theoretical perspective of glotopolítica, an approach described in this chapter, we examine the ideologies behind English language teaching of Latinx students in the US by analysing the assumptions about language, bilingualism, and language education that are part of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). We argue that the standards display a technical perspective of language which views English as an autonomous neutral lin…
Latinxs’ bilingualism at work in the US: Profit for whom
In the current context of a globalized economy, bilingualism is increasingly portrayed as a resource for corporations and for workers competing for jobs in today’s slim market. In this paper we analyze the economic value of languages other than English in the US, Spanish in particular. Working from a political economy perspective and drawing from current theoretical approaches to language and labor under neoliberalism, we examine the reproduction…
The Language Warriors: Transcending ideologies on bilingualism in education
This article explores how middle school youth view bilingualism and act on these views to transform their school and their communities. Following a post-structuralist perspective on language and society, a lens from raciolinguistic ideologies, and a creative justice approach, we developed a Participatory Action Research project in which seventh and eighth grade students became co-researchers as we explored how to make bilingualism more welcome in…
Crítica de Martín Rojo & Del Percio (2020): Language and Neoliberal Governmentality
Raciolinguistic perspective on labor in the Americas: Introduction to this special issue
This introduction presents the concept of raciolinguistic ideologies and discusses its potential to look at issues related to labor in the Americas. We explore the concept of raciolinguistics as a helpful anchor for researchers to examine the co-construction of race and language. Additionally, we link the current reproduction of social and economic inequality to the interconnection of slavery and capitalism stemming from the colonial projects. We…
Habilidad o identidad: Tensiones entre las ideologías neoliberales y las raciolingüísticas en el trabajo de los y las jóvenes bilingües de origen latino en Eeuu
Este artículo explora la tensión entre las ideologías lingüísticas neoliberales que señalan el valor económico del lenguaje en la economía globalizada y los procesos raciolingüísticos que co-naturalizan la raza y la lengua. Enfocándonos en el mercado laboral estadounidense, analizamos las experiencias de jóvenes profesionales de origen latino que, inspirados por la ideología de la ventaja bilingüe, esperan sacar provecho de sus habilidades lingüí…
In search of sociolinguistic justice: Mobilizing Transformative Agency Through Action Research
Transformative actions for sociolinguistic equity: Mobilizing Students' Agency at University
This paper explores the concept of agency for social transformation and its mobilization through a participatory action research project developed with students from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. The research, which was longitudinal and employed ethnographic and participatory approaches, was based on critical pedagogy to raise awareness about the role of language in reproducing social inequaliti…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (4 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Capitalism (2 works)