Community, Solidarity and Multilingualism in a Transnational Social Movement

Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà is Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

• ContentsList of Figures AcknowledgementsChapter 1: Language, discourse and transnationalism in a social movement xxEmmaus as a holistic social movement xxInvestigating sociolinguistic articulation across borders xxTheoretical approaches xxCritical ethnographic sociolinguistics xxTransnational social movements xxCommunity as a nexus xxAn ethnographic journey into a transnational field xxAccess, collaboration and positioning xxAn ethnographic toolbox xxStructure of the book xxChapter 2: Historicising the transnational expansion of a social movement through key events and texts xxIntroduction xxTransnational and multilingual expansion of a French movement xxFoundation and "Catacombs period" (1949-1954) xx"Insurrection of Goodness" in France (1954) and early expansion (1955-1969) xxFrom the First World Assembly (1969) to the politicisation of the movement (1988) xxHistoricising religion and politics in two different Emmaus communities xxFaith traditions and socio-political activism xxEmmaus Barcelona: Progressive Catholicism and post-‘68 activism xxEmmaus London: Charity and social enterprise xxConcluding remarks: A solidarity mission over time xxChapter 3: Transnational articulation and socialisation through the Emmaus founding story xxIntroduction: A social movement tells a "new story" xxConceptual framework: Collective identity through narrative chronotopes xx"A story of us": A chronotopic analysis of the Emmaus origin story xxAn ethnographic analysis of the movement’s founding story in situated interactions xxSocialisation into "stories of us": Oral storytelling and semiotic artefacts xx"Stories of self": Personal narratives of transformation xxConcluding remarks: Creating sameness in the Emmaus social movement xxChapter 4: Discursive localisations of solidarity in two socio-political contexts xxIntroduction xx"Towards other reasons to live": Alter-globalisation discourses in Emmaus Barcelona xxSnapshot: "Stories of now" in socio-political activism xxZooming in: A residential project for migrants xx"Emmaus, the homeless charity that works": Discourses of reciprocity and skilling in the UK xxSnapshot: "Stories of now" in homeless activation xxZooming in: Voluntary work schemes for the homeless xxConcluding remarks: Solidarity at the intersection of transnational trends, nation-state regimes and individual trajectories xxChapter 5: Language ideologies for negotiating positioning in the Emmaus social movement xxIntroduction xxTwo distinct visions of Emmaus as a movement xxEmmaus as a "multi-national of the heart" xxEmmaus as a rhizomatic network xxConstructing positioning in Emmaus through language ideologies of lingua francas xxDeproblematising language: French and Spanish as lingua francas in a Catalan community xxProblematising language: Tensions between English and French in a recent English community xxConcluding remarks: Ideologies of multilingualism and positioning in themovement xxChapter 6: Linguistic nationalism and the erasure of multilingualism in local Emmaus communities xxConstructing language: Between fixity and fluidity in localities xxFitting into (linguistic) nationalism xxEmmaus London: Constructing a monolingual space in an English charity xxEmmaus Barcelona: Tensions between monolingual and bilingual norms xxBackgrounding multilingualism in everyday practices xxEmmaus London: Institutional erasure of multilingual biographies xxEmmaus Barcelona: Multilingualism and new migrants xxConcluding remarks: Nationalist ideologies in a transnational social movement xxChapter 7: Language, transnational solidarity and utopia in an imagined community xxEmmaus as a utopia made of "walking words" xxWhat’s the (hi)story? Key findings about Emmaus as a social movement xxTowards a sociolinguistics of transnationalism xxWhat now? The story continues xxAppendix 1: Universal Manifesto of the Emmaus movement (1969)Appendix 2: Abbé 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 conventionsReferencesIndex