Nelson Mangaldan Buso
Biographic Data
| ID | 4430432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nelson Mangaldan Buso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nelson Mangaldan |
| FAMILY NAME | Buso |
| SIGNATURE | BUSO N M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English and Comparative Literature , 54727 University of the Philippines Diliman , Quezon City , Philippines |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-1111-2365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The semiotics of hope
‘In the current context of global crisis’, Bonnin writes, ‘we have the opportunity to design a research agenda for an uncertain future from a dark present. But there is no reason why that agenda should also be uncertain and dark’. My article takes up this challenge by exploring the visuality of hope. Drawing on the community pantry movement that sprouted across the Philippines during the pandemic, I examine the online representations of these pan…
The semiotics of Maginhawa Community Pantry
This paper responds to the call for more Linguistic Landscape research that engages with prefigurative politics. Using Maginhawa Community Pantry (MCP) as a case study, the paper explores how this social movement emerges as a semiotic landscape of radical care in a time of crisis. The analysis is twofold. First, I examine the pantry’s material objects, linguistic signs, and spatial arrangements to make visible the semiotic enactments of care. Sec…
Affective banalities of unequal Englishes
In this piece, I return to an old paper from college and rewrite it to confront my fraught relationship with the English language. I trace back the fears, the shame, the tiny victories, the silent joys. I look back on the people who influenced my learning, the awkward situations I had to endure, the spaces where I struggled to fit in. And in all of these residual memories, I begin to see the embodied textures of “Unequal Englishes” – the lived re…
Unnamed decolonialities
In Decoloniality and language scholarship – a critical intervention , Rambukwella and Zavala identify three emerging challenges in the ongoing theorization and application of the term ‘decoloniality’ in current language scholarship: the assertion of an alterity untouched by modernity, the creation of new binaries despite efforts to deconstruct them, and the decontextualization and depoliticization of decoloniality. In this response article, we lo…
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Unnamed decolonialities
In Decoloniality and language scholarship – a critical intervention , Rambukwella and Zavala identify three emerging challenges in the ongoing theorization and application of the term ‘decoloniality’ in current language scholarship: the assertion of an alterity untouched by modernity, the creation of new binaries despite efforts to deconstruct them, and the decontextualization and depoliticization of decoloniality. In this response article, we lo…
The semiotics of hope
‘In the current context of global crisis’, Bonnin writes, ‘we have the opportunity to design a research agenda for an uncertain future from a dark present. But there is no reason why that agenda should also be uncertain and dark’. My article takes up this challenge by exploring the visuality of hope. Drawing on the community pantry movement that sprouted across the Philippines during the pandemic, I examine the online representations of these pan…
The semiotics of Maginhawa Community Pantry
This paper responds to the call for more Linguistic Landscape research that engages with prefigurative politics. Using Maginhawa Community Pantry (MCP) as a case study, the paper explores how this social movement emerges as a semiotic landscape of radical care in a time of crisis. The analysis is twofold. First, I examine the pantry’s material objects, linguistic signs, and spatial arrangements to make visible the semiotic enactments of care. Sec…
Affective banalities of unequal Englishes
In this piece, I return to an old paper from college and rewrite it to confront my fraught relationship with the English language. I trace back the fears, the shame, the tiny victories, the silent joys. I look back on the people who influenced my learning, the awkward situations I had to endure, the spaces where I struggled to fit in. And in all of these residual memories, I begin to see the embodied textures of “Unequal Englishes” – the lived re…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Autoethnography (1 work) · Embodied cognition (1 work) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (1 work) · Photography and Visual Culture (1 work) · Politics (1 work) · Public Spaces through Art (1 work) · Romance (1 work) · Semiotics (1 work)