Making and Shaping Participatory Spaces
Resemiotization and Citizenship Agency in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21203575 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Kerfoot (0000-0002-8239-524X, University of the Western Cape, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 87-102 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Multilingual Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1931-3152 • E-ISSN: 1931-3160 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19313152.2011.594360 |
| OpenAlex | W2040961515 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 34 |
In South Africa, democratic consolidation involves not only building a new state, but also new interfaces between state and society. To strengthen the agency of citizens at these interfaces, recent approaches to development stress the notion of “participatory citizenship.” The purpose of this article is to explore the links, rarely achieved in practice, between such practices of participatory citizenship and possibilities for literacy and language education. The article draws on a study of a capacity-building program for educators of adults in the Northern Cape Province. It uses the concept of resemiotization to explore the ways in which participants reshaped the multilingual representational resources available to them to legitimize the authority of subaltern actors and mobilize collective agency. Finally, it argues that such semiotic practices can be seen as a form of “linguistic citizenship,” which could promote locally rooted and participatory democracy under a radically reoriented adult basic education system
Active citizenship · Citizen journalism · Citizenship · Civil society · Democracy · Epistemology · Literacy · Participatory action research · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Semiotics · Social science · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Public Administration · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Failing Fortunes of Applied Linguistics
Towards models of language supportive pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Navigating the university PedTech Wonderland
Transnational postgraduate students’ experience of voice and participation
Carving out institutional space for multilingualism in the world’s most multilingual region
Extending resemiotisation
Danmu video as the resemiotised
Our nation is just trying to rebirth right now
Towards a sociolinguistics of potentiality
South Africa: Limits To Change
Negotiations of language choice in Montreal
The genuine article
Cross-cultural approaches to literacy
Social Linguistics and Literacies
Discourse
Literacy in the New Media Age
The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse
Critical Discourse Analysis
Social Literacies
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
Six Communication and the Other
Changing Paths
Analysing Discourse
Critical Discourse Analysis
Resemiotization
Social Citizenship
Formalizing Organizational Meaning
The General Household Survey
African Mother-tongue Programmes and the Politics of Language
Hold Your Courses
Multimodality, resemiotization
The General Household Survey 1974
Fragile Stability
Spaces of multilingualism
In Other Words
Changing Perspectives in the Scientific Study of Religion
Moving the State
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |