Grassroots literacy and the written record
Asbestos activism in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3654289 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Trimbur (Emerson College Massachusetts) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 460-487 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/josl.12044 |
| OpenAlex | W2003729353 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 38 |
This article uses two key terms - 'grassroots literacy' and the 'written record' - to examine writing produced by the Asbestos Interest Group (AIG), a community organization in Kuruman, South Africa. The article considers the formation of theAIG's grassroots literacy in terms of the unequal distribution of semiotic resources in a stratified world system, with particular attention to how the allotment of the means of representation enables and constrains the capacity of texts to move across social locations. The article analyzes how theAIGnegotiates the paperwork of state, legal, and medical bureaucracies in compensation cases for asbestos-related disease. It examines how theAIG's grassroots texts, such as monthly reports and handwritten/drawn maps, manage or not to circulate translocally, to take on semiotic mobility by making theAIG's interests known in the written record.Lekwalonyana le, le dirisa mareomagolo a mabedi - 'go ruta baagi go buisa le go kwala' le 'rekoto e e kwadilweng' - go lekola mokwalo o o tlhagisitsweng ke Abestos Interest Group (AIG), mogatlho wa set haba kwa Kuruman, Aforika Borwa. Lekwalonyana le, le sekaseka go tlhamiwa ga go ruta baagi go buisa le go kwala keAIGgo ya ka go aba ga tiriso ya didiriswa tsa matshwao ka mokgwa o o sa lekalekaneng mo bathong go lebeletswe thata mokgwa wa go aba ka kemedi e e kgotshang le go thibela bokgoni ba dipolelwana tse di kgonang go fitlhelela batho mo ba nnang. Lekwalonyana le, le sekaseka mokgwa oAIGe buisanang le tiro ya dikwalo tsa puso, tsa semolao le maparego a boitekanelo mo go neeleng ditlhapiso mo dikgetseng tse di amanang le abesetose e e tlholang bolwetsi jwa mafatlha. [Setswana
Allotment · Art · Grassroots · Humanities · Linguistics · Literacy · Political science · Politics · Semiotics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Multilingual Education and Policy · South African History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
A Geopolitics Of Academic Writing
Control through Communication
English as a Global Language
The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society
Professional Academic Writing by Multilingual Scholars
Opinion
Literacy in Traditional Societies
The Birth of the Clinic
Ways with Words
Social Literacies
Documents and Bureaucracy
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
On Postmodernism and Articulation
Asbestos-Related Disease in South Africa
The Portable Bunyan
The Demon of Writing
Historical capitalism ; with, Capitalist civilization
From Utterance to Text
Discipline and Punish
Written Culture in a Colonial Context
Limits of the Local
Tsotsitaal, global culture and local style
Varieties of Environmentalism
Asbestos Blues
Form-Made Persons
Structuring silence
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2020 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |