Miguel Pérez Milans

Miguel Pérez Milans

@mpmilans.bsky.social

Professor of Language, Discourse and Communication and Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics @University College London | Critical ethnographer

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Miguel Pérez Milans
@mpmilans.bsky.social

A fully open access article in which we propose the concept of “disciplinary languaging” to examine the socialization of international students in the UK higher education system as they become “experts” and navigate multiple normative orders and transnational labour markets doi.org/10.1002/tesq...

doi.orgBecoming a TESOL Practitioner: Disciplinary Languaging and the Socialization of International Students in UK Higher EducationThis article proposes the concept of disciplinary languaging to account for the regulated forms of communication that are characteristic of TESOL master's preparatory programs in the UK. It does so w....
Miguel Pérez Milans
@mpmilans.bsky.social

Our new book can now be ordered in hardback. Colleagues based in universities please request it via your institutional libraries if you’re interested. Hopefully the volume will be available in paperback version very soon. Check out contents and a preview in the first comment, below!

Miguel Pérez Milans
@mpmilans.bsky.social

Next Monday (Feb 10) in the UCL Institute of Education, as part of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics’ Research Seminar Series. All welcome - in-person seminar only. www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

ucl.ac.ukHauntology and Fanon’s ‘zone of occult instability’ | IOE - Faculty of Education and SocietyAna Deumert will explore Derrida’s project of hauntology in conversation with Fanon’s The Damned of the Earth and his argument that the revolution will emerge from a ‘zone of occult instability.'

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🚨 Our volume "Re-imagining language and communication in collaborative projects" with @mpmilans.bsky.social is in press! We are thrilled to see the result of many years of collaboration & dialogue about the commons, utopias, inequality and imaginaries with superb scholars. 🌐 shorturl.at/eV3FJ

routledge.comRe-imagining Language and Communication in Collaborative Projects: Ethnographic Perspectives on the FutureThis collection re-imagines language and communication through an ethnographic sociolinguistic lens, foregrounding perspectives on collective projects that grapple with the relationship between past, ...
Miguel Pérez Milans
@mpmilans.bsky.social

Kate Menken and I accepted the invitation by the International Journal of the Sociology of Language to reflect on the intensification of academic publication. We focus on the principle of acceleration and review collective attempts (and failures) to challenge it. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

degruyter.comAcceleration, capitalist temporalities and collective challenges in academic publishing [Language Policy]This article engages with Wolfgang Klein’s (1989. Schreiben oder Lesen, aber nicht beides, oder: Vorschlag zur Wiedereinführung der Keilschrift mittels Hammer und Meißel. Zeitschrift für Literaturwiss...
Miguel Pérez Milans
@mpmilans.bsky.social

Sudha Vepa and I have something to say about philanthrocapitalism and the languaging of empowered women, particularly in global south settings like the one we examined. Article available in full-open access here: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

degruyter.comPhilantrocapitalism and the languaging of empowered women in the Global SouthThis article explores the impact of market-driven corporate philanthropy on educational institutions and their social actors, with a focus on how ideas of English and women’s empowerment become instit...
Miguel Pérez Milans
@mpmilans.bsky.social

Hoping to connect with people in/across Socio/Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Discourse Studies, Migration Studies, Critical Theory, Capitalism Studies, Urban Studies, Sociology/Anthropology of Education, East-Asian Studies, Political Economy, Nationalism Studies and Future Studies:)

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