Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen

This book uses a micro-analysis of language in and around Tanzanian beauty pageants to address structural inequalities, gender relations, globalization, as well as educational and language policy. The book paints a picture of how people on the global periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Sabrina Billings is an Assistant Professor of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Arkansas, USA. Her research explores the interconnections of language with gender, education, globalization, and opportunity, especially in urban East Africa.

Zusammenfassung

This book uses a micro-analysis of language in and around Tanzanian beauty pageants to address structural inequalities, gender relations, globalization, as well as educational and language policy. The book paints a picture of how people on the global periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sabrina Billings
• Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.11.2013
• EAN: 9781783090754
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-075-4
• Seiten: 232
• Abmessung: 148 mm x 210 mm x 12 mm
• Gewicht: 408 g
• Serien: Encounters; Multilingual Matters; Encounters
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien