superdiversity

BIOR: local vs global voices in a case of cultural appropriation

Paper
Andreea-Diana Dobrescu
13/03/2023
13 minutes to read

This essay explores the concept of cultural appropriation in a globalized world, examining its various forms, its impact on marginalized communities, and the power dynamics between local and global voices.

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Revealing racist words in the superdiverse era

Paper
Anne Marte Gardenier
20/05/2020
11 minutes to read

This article focuses on Dutch vocabulary changes that are brought on by inter-cultural contact as a result of globalization. The superdiverse population of the Netherlands is raising awareness for racist Dutch vocabulary. 

Londoners on Brexit

Article
Nando Sigona
12/12/2019
4 minutes to read

Nando Sigona (Birmingham University) argues that London is a EU capital and its superdiversity offers a more welcoming space for EU citizens than elsewhere in Europe. 

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Identity crisis: the confusion of being Chinese Indonesian

Article
Jessaline Tanjung
05/11/2019
11 minutes to read

Chinese Indonesians experience a kind of constant identity crisis, not knowing whether they belong to Chinese or Indonesian society. This article explores how they strike a delicate balance in the in-between.

What linguistic landscapes hide

Column
Jan Blommaert
26/02/2019
6 minutes to read

Offline linguistic landscapes hide a lot that only becomes overt when one traces these landscapes to their online extensions. It is by this move that we begin to get a grasp of the real complexity of "local" phenomena in a superdiverse world.

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Globalization and the emergence of Chinglish and Greeklish

Paper
Xiao Lu
15/02/2019
10 minutes to read

Chinglish and Greeklish are taken over. This paper argues that in times cultural globalization, English becomes localized and gradually integrated into local communities due to the development of information technology.