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- Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta, 1962-, et al.
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Accessing global communities through local resources? : a study of barriers and facilitators of first generation women users of new communication technologies
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Ingår i: Swedish-Indian International Research Conference LanDpost, Languaging and Diversity in the age of post-colonial glocal-medialization. - Mysore, India : CIIL.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- India has witnessed a massive transformation in the development and use of information technology in the last decade. The way technology is experienced however, varies; and social class, gender, and age are prominent parameters that frame its use. The present study focuses the spaces of Mumbai Mobile Creches (MMC)[1] – a not for profit organization which works towards ensuring nutrition, health, and safety of migrant families and their children who spend their lives on construction sites in the mega-city of Mumbai. MMC operates day care centres on 25-30 construction sites where trained early childhood care givers, teachers and attached professional staff, including volunteers, deliver a large range of services including qualified crèches, preschools and educational facilities for children between birth and 14 years of age. Currently, 40% women workers at these centers are made up of members of construction workers’ communities. While these women execute a range of tasks creatively and under very challenging conditions, limited exposure and competencies in the use of English restricts their use of digital technologies, including web media. It is these women who constitute the first generation of technology users that this study focuses upon. The study explores the access and reported experiences of women first generation digital users. It aims to understand barriers and facilitators for access to new technologies among these women, what significance these have for them, the role/s these play in shaping their sense of self and role of gender and age in technology use. The main research questions include: How does access to and engagement with new communication technologies look like in the lives of first generation women users in mega-city hubs in present times of flux? How do issues of access shape women first generation users lives? In what arenas do women from the middle and lower economic strata in a mega-city context in India have access to new communication technologies? What do their life trajectories look like and what, if anything, can we learn about development from this type of collaborative research?The following empirical materials have been specifically used in this study. In-depth case studies with adult women first generation new technology users based upon a series of audio-recorded conversations and written daily records maintained by the women, video-documentation of Sakhi empowerment monthly meetings, minutes of the Sakhi meetings, and MMC annual reports across two decades, 2000-2014.This paper empirically supports often sighted association between women’s entry into workforce and their empowerment. Nuances of the gender role expectations in use of technology and empowerment of women are focused. Empowerment of women emerges as a complex process wherein women transgress some aspects of traditional gender roles while continuing to be framed by others. LanDpost is concerned with intersections of language, gender, and media in an increasingly digital world. The present study illuminates the role digital media and language play in the access to and use of new technologies, including web media and how access to these shapes adult, first generation users lives.[1]http://www.mumbaimobilecreches.org/aboutus.htm
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- Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta, 1962-
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Challenges in (re)searching literacies in the 21st century : issues of timespace, mobility and identity-positions in the GLO-CAL North and South
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Issues related to time and space explicitly or implicitly frame ways in which identity and language broadly, and literacy specifically get (re)searched. This study explicates challenges related to space – here, there and the virtual, mobility – across time and space (both geographical and virtually), and identity-positions through empirical examples from on-going ethnographically framed research in the Global North and South. Taking both a socially oriented perspective and a decolonial framework on language and identity, this contribution juxtaposes data from ethnographic projects at the CCD research group at Örebro University, Sweden (www.oru.se/humes/ccd). The analysis builds upon (i) video-recordings of mundane activities, (ii) data-prompted discussions and (iii) archives and policy related to institutions in Sweden and Mumbai, India where individuals have access to and engage with a number of language varieties including their written modalities. Fieldwork in the projects raise important issues related to globalization and the very doing of researchRecent shifts in media and digital spaces have created new conditions for the human condition. For instance, how people engage with information, the visual, the written, the cultural; how they find, engage with, experience the written word and other cultural and intellectual tools. Everyday life across spaces, including the disparity of experiences between individuals and groups calls for systematically revisiting some central areas in the educational and social sciences. Flexibility and the hybridity of languaging in physical as well as digital spaces are afforded by the glo-cal nature of linguistic landscapes. Here processes of identity are shaped by the transnational, multilingual and glo-cal nature of participation both inside and outside institutional settings. These linguistic landscapes enable the creation of physical as well as symbolic relationships, enabling glo-cal states and experiences.I attend to the following issues: (i) illustrate some important challenges of doing fieldwork in present times; (ii) raise issues related to individual actors talk and institutional accounting of language, learning and identity on the one hand, and the performance of languaging, learning and identity-positioning on the other; (iii) illustrate the chained ecology and hybridity of communication and use of technologies in vastly different geopolitical physical and virtual spaces (ie. make visible the active work that participants and institutions “do” with symbols and artifacts through detailed descriptions of naturally occurring communication and interactions across time and space); and (iv) illustrate the ways in which multimodal analysis allows for revisiting dimensions of language socialization and identity-positions which get accounted for not as the sole property of individuals or as distinct bounded entities, but rather in terms of intrinsic performatory hybrid dimensions of individuals-cum-technologies-in-concert-across-time-and-space.
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- Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta, 1962-, et al.
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Decolonizing scholars’ methodological stances based upon Second Wave of Southern Perspectives
- 2021
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Ingår i: Abstracts Booklet. ; , s. 26-26
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Built upon alternative epistemologies and going beyond straight-jacket methodologies, this study juxtaposes four cases across geopolitical time spaces with the intent to (i) discuss trans methodological framings, and through these (ii) unpack the role that boundaries and liminality play in the constitution of what is glossed as human and collective language and identity. We argue that a researcher’s mobile gaze is highly relevant in making visible and troubling processes that contribute to the re-enforcing naturalization of archaic conceptualizations pertaining to not only language, identity, nation-spaces, but also nationalism. Applying a SWaSP, Second Wave of Southern Perspective framing, the paper troubles mainstream methodologies and epistemologies and engages with peoples mobilities (including the scholars mobile gaze) and the processes of boundary creations across time and the global-North/South by including the South in the North and the North in the South. We gaze analytically at (i) Sápmi across northern Scandinavia and Russia; (ii) Nagalim in the tri-junction area of the eastern parts of India, Myanmar and China; (iii) massive displacements that ensued during the violent emergence of the nation-spaces of India and (West) Pakistan through the creation of the Radcliffe Line in 1947; and (iv) the urban to rural Pandemic induced exodus across the internal boundaries of the nation-spaces of India in post-March 2020. Conceptualizations that build upon the materiality of and the boundary-marked nature of language, identity, and nation-spaces (and their populations), salient features across these four cases, are also – we argue – etched in mainstream scholarship despite having been challenged through historical, philosophical, and empirical explorations. SWaSP’s reflexive tenets call attention to the cost of disruptions, the counter-flows related to colonially marked mobilities in disentangling analytical engagement as a trans methodological stance. This builds on the scholar’s mobile gaze at the entanglements of time-spaces, vocabularies, epistemology-methodology and positionalities.
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- Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta, 1962-
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Language learners and learning language in the era of reinforced boundaries : challenging webs-of-understandings related to bilingualism ethnographically
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Framed in sociocultural and post/decolonial perspectives, this multidisciplinary multi-site study focuses issues related to globalization and learning in the global North and South. Based upon analysis of different data sets from three ethnographic projects, this paper focuses individuals and institutions accounting of language, learning and identity on the one hand, and the performance of languaging, learning and identity-positioning on the other. Furthermore, by using different representational techniques, the paper revisits dimensions of learning language and identity-positions inside and outside institutional settings. Language and identity get accounted for as intrinsic performatory hybrid dimensions of individuals-in-concert-with-tools from bi/multilingual perspectives.
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- Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta, 1962-
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Languaging in and across virtual-irl timespaces : challenging disciplinary and methodological hegemonies through the lens of visually-oriented data
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Current digital medial lives of young people and adults in different geopolitical spaces and a disparity of experiences within these spaces calls for systematically revisiting some problematic assumptions that frame the Communication and Cultural Sciences, particularly in the global North. With this as point of departure, I will attempt to do the following three things in my presentation. First, I will “make visible” some dimensions of the ways-of-being-with-words and cultural-tools that shape life in the 21st century. Secondly, my presentation will illustrate how analyses in and across virtual-irl timespaces allows for revisiting the ways in which language categories and identity positions have been talked-and-written-into-being since the end of the 20th century. Finally, I will present reflections regarding doing netnographic fieldwork in the 21st century. An overarching aim of this presentation is to contribute to the academic domain of (what is glossed as) bi/multilingual research from bi/multilingual multimodal perspectives.Taking both a socially oriented perspective and a decolonial framework on languaging and identity positions, my presentation will juxtapose data from ethnographic projects at the CCD research group at Örebro University, Sweden (www.oru.se/humes/ccd). The analysis I will share will include ethnographically framed everyday life (i) data from projects that focus Web 2.0 platforms (like Youtube and facebook), (ii) data from Swedish mass-media (SVT, the national TV and print-digital newspapers) and (iii) archive and policy data related to educational institutions in Sweden. My presentation will problematizes dominating understandings of language, identity and culture generally and the organization of “special” support for “immigrant” individuals as well as “functionally disabled” young people in the global North more specifically.The analysis presented will highlight that ways of conceptualizing, reporting and “talking about bi/multilingualism” are not in sync with mundane use of cultural-tools, languaging or ways-of-being-with-words, or peoples engagement in “everyday bi/multilingual communication” in and across virtual-irl and media-institutional settings. I will illustrate the incongruence between individuals, institutional and mass-media accountings, as opposed to the performance of language, identity and culture in the global North. The analysis will highlight the reductionistic and problematic “webs-of-understandings” (Bagga-Gupta 2012) that frame the glossed concepts mono-bi-multilingualism and mono-bi-multiculturalism in the global North. Providing emic understandings of how accountings constitute a core dimension of “collective remembering” (Wertsch 2002) of “imagined communities” (Anderson 1991), the work presented here will illustrate “alternative voices” (Hasnain el al 2013) in the multidisciplinary fields such as Communication Studies, Cultural Studies and the Language Sciences (Bagga-Gupta 2013, 2014a, 2014b). This endeavor calls for a major shift in analytical perspectives, where a visual-orientation from ethnographically framed decolonial positions present challenges to northern hegemonies that currently frame discourses of globalization. References:Anderson, B. (1991). Imagined Communities. Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso.Bagga-Gupta, S. (2012). Challenging understandings of Bilingualism in the Language Sciences from the lens of research that focuses Social Practices. In Eva Hjörne, Geerdina van der Aalsvoort & Guida de Abreu (Eds.) Learning, social interaction and diversity – exploring school practices. pp 85-102. Rotterdam: Sense.Bagga-Gupta, S. (2013). The Boundary-Turn. Relocating language, identity and culture through the epistemological lenses of time, space and social interactions. In Imtiaz Hasnain, Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta & Shailendra Mohan (Eds.) Alternative Voices: (Re)searching Language, Culture and Identity... pp 28-49 Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta (2014). Languaging. Ways-of-being-with-words across Disciplinary Boundaries and Empirical Sites. In Heli Paulasto, Lea Meriläinen, Helka Riionheimo & Maria Kok (Eds). Language Contacts at the Crossroads of Disciplines. (89-130). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Bagga-Gupta, S. (2014). Performing and accounting language and identity: Agency AS actors-in-(inter)action-with-tools. In P. Deters, Xuesong Gao, E. Miller and G. Vitanova-Haralampiev (Eds.) Interdisciplinary approaches to theorizing and analyzing agency and second language learning. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.Hasnain, I., Bagga-Gupta, S. & Mohan, S. (Eds.) Alternative Voices: (Re)searching Language, Culture and Identity... Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Wertsch, J. (2002). Voices of Collective Remembering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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