Citizenship, Language, and Superdiversity: Towards Complexity
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: This discussion piece outlines the challenges posed by superdiversity for our understanding of (dis-)citizenship. In superdiversity, features that suggest “integration” in specific segments of social life may also and simultaneously be features suggesting absence of integration in other segments. We are facing not a system of plurality here, but a system of complexity characterized by intense polycentricity, which invites new and far more nuanced and detailed forms of scholarship. What counts as signs of citizenship will increasingly also count as signs of dis-citizenship.
Author: Jan Blommaert
Institutions: Tilburg University, Ghent University
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2171913852