Internationalization: On Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitics and Communication Otherwise
Channel: Critical Internationalization Studies Network
Date: 2022-02-14

Dr. Lynn Mario Menezes de Souza - Internationalization: On Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitics and Communication Otherwise.

This lecture is part of the Critical Internationalization Studies Masterclass. To enroll for free, or learn more about it, please go to https://criticalinternationalization.thinkific.com/

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About this Lecture:

The focus is on interculturality as an often-forgotten aspect of the current South-North flows in the Internationalization of Higher Education. If internationalization necessarily involves an encounter of different knowledges, languages, and subjects, where attention is mainly focused on the knowledge element and its acquisition, this presentation highlights the difficulties involved in these encounters and problematizes the desired assimilation to and of ‘other’ knowledges and cultures. It focuses on a need to ‘think communication otherwise’.

About the Speaker:

Professor of Language Studies, Modern Languages Department, University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research focus is on Applied Linguistics, the politics of language, literature and literacy, post and decolonial theories and racism. His recent publications include ‘Multiliteracies and Transcultural Education’, in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society (2017); the co-edited volume Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness: the south answers back. Routledge (2019); ‘De-universalizing the decolonial: between parentheses and falling skies’, co-authored with Ana Paula Duboc in Gragoatá vol. 26 (2021); ‘On questioning epistemic racism in issues of language studies in Brazil: the case of Pretoguês versus Popular Brazilian Portuguese’, co-authored with Gabriel Nascimento in Southernizing Sociolinguistics (in press).

To engage further with this topic, Dr. Menezes de Souza suggests the following readings:

1.- De la Cadena, M. (2010) Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes: conceptual reflections beyond “politics”. Cultural Anthropology vol.5 no.2

2.- Jullien, F. (2021) There is no such thing as cultural identity. Polity

3.- Menezes de Souza, L.M.T. & Duboc, A.P. (2021) De-universalizing the decolonial: between parentheses and falling skies. Gragoatá v.26 (2021).

4.- Menezes de Souza, L.M.T. (2019) Glocal Languages, Coloniality and Globalization from below. In Guilherme, M & Menezes de Souza, L.M.T. (eds) Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness: the south answers back. Routledge

5.- Stengers, I. (2005) The Cosmopolitical Proposal. In Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel (eds.), Making Things Public. MIT Press.

6.- Menezes de Souza, L.M. (2018) Strategic Cumplicity in Neo-liberal Educational Internationalization: the case of the production of entrepreneurial subjects in Ciências sem Fronteiras. In Maciel, R. et al (eds) Linguística Aplicada para além das Fronteiras. Pontes.

7.- Menezes de Souza, L.M. (2019) Introduction: Theorizing the Souths. In Finardi, K. (ed.) English in The South. Eduel

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