Community, Solidarity and Multilingualism in a Transnational Social Movement : A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Emmaus (Paperback)

Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Language, discourse and transnationalism in a social movement xx Emmaus as a holistic social movement xx Investigating sociolinguistic articulation across borders xx Theoretical approaches xx Critical ethnographic sociolinguistics xx Transnational social movements xx Community as a nexus xx An ethnographic journey into a transnational field xx Access, collaboration and positioning xx An ethnographic toolbox xx Structure of the book xx Chapter 2: Historicising the transnational expansion of a social movement through key events and texts xx Introduction xx Transnational and multilingual expansion of a French movement xx Foundation and "Catacombs period" (1949-1954) xx "Insurrection of Goodness" in France (1954) and early expansion (1955-1969) xx From the First World Assembly (1969) to the politicisation of the movement (1988) xx Historicising religion and politics in two different Emmaus communities xx Faith traditions and socio-political activism xx Emmaus Barcelona: Progressive Catholicism and post-‘68 activism xx Emmaus London: Charity and social enterprise xx Concluding remarks: A solidarity mission over time xx Chapter 3: Transnational articulation and socialisation through the Emmaus founding story xx Introduction: A social movement tells a "new story" xx Conceptual framework: Collective identity through narrative chronotopes xx "A story of us": A chronotopic analysis of the Emmaus origin story xx An ethnographic analysis of the movement’s founding story in situated interactions xx Socialisation into "stories of us": Oral storytelling and semiotic artefacts xx "Stories of self": Personal narratives of transformation xx Concluding remarks: Creating sameness in the Emmaus social movement xx Chapter 4: Discursive localisations of solidarity in two socio-political contexts xx Introduction xx "Towards other reasons to live": Alter-globalisation discourses in Emmaus Barcelona xx Snapshot: "Stories of now" in socio-political activism xx Zooming in: A residential project for migrants xx "Emmaus, the homeless charity that works": Discourses of reciprocity and skilling in the UK xx Snapshot: "Stories of now" in homeless activation xx Zooming in: Voluntary work schemes for the homeless xx Concluding remarks: Solidarity at the intersection of transnational trends, nation-state regimes and individual trajectories xx Chapter 5: Language ideologies for negotiating positioning in the Emmaus social movement xx Introduction xx Two distinct visions of Emmaus as a movement xx Emmaus as a "multi-national of the heart" xx Emmaus as a rhizomatic network xx Constructing positioning in Emmaus through language ideologies of lingua francas xx Deproblematising language: French and Spanish as lingua francas in a Catalan community xx Problematising language: Tensions between English and French in a recent English community xx Concluding remarks: Ideologies of multilingualism and positioning in the movement xx Chapter 6: Linguistic nationalism and the erasure of multilingualism in local Emmaus communities xx Constructing language: Between fixity and fluidity in localities xx Fitting into (linguistic) nationalism xx Emmaus London: Constructing a monolingual space in an English charity xx Emmaus Barcelona: Tensions between monolingual and bilingual norms xx Backgrounding multilingualism in everyday practices xx Emmaus London: Institutional erasure of multilingual biographies xx Emmaus Barcelona: Multilingualism and new migrants xx Concluding remarks: Nationalist ideologies in a transnational social movement xx ? Chapter 7: Language, transnational solidarity and utopia in an imagined community xx Emmaus as a utopia made of "walking words" xx What’s the (hi)story? Key findings about Emmaus as a social movement xx Towards a sociolinguistics of transnationalism xx What now? The story continues xx Appendix 1: Universal Manifesto of the Emmaus movement (1969) Appendix 2: Abbe Pierre’s Radio Appeal on 1st February 1954 (short version) Appendix 3: Orientations ? Propositions ? Questions adopted at the 6th Emmaus International General Assembly in Verona (1988) Appendix 4: Transcription conventions References Index ?