Emotions as Entanglements in Language Education

Power, Inequality and Possibility
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-83668-234-9
Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

Reihe: Multilingual Matters

Offers a compelling and aspirational agenda for pursuing emotional justice

This book moves beyond treating emotions solely as individual psychological experiences to examine how they are lived, shaped, and negotiated through entanglements of language, identity, ideology, history, institutional structures, material conditions, and power in language education. Drawing on diverse educational and sociopolitical contexts across the Global North and South, the volume explores how emotions are implicated in colonial histories, racialization, linguistic inequalities, migration, neoliberal educational reforms, and the professional lives of teachers and learners. The chapters collectively argue that emotions are never neutral or apolitical; rather, they are central to processes of exclusion, resistance, and transformation in educational settings. By conceptualizing emotions as entanglements, the volume advances a critical and relational approach to emotion research in applied linguistics, highlighting the unequal organization of emotional life and considering how educational institutions and practices might move toward greater emotional justice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sah, Pramod K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Pramod K. Sah

Chapter 1. Pramod K. Sah: Toward an Entangled Understanding of Emotions in Language Education

Part I. Emotional Entanglements of Power, History, and Inequality

Chapter 2. Mostafa Nazari: English Language Teachers’ Emotion as Entangled with/in Social Movements: The Case of “Women, Life, Freedom”

Chapter 3. Nevin Durmaz: Exploring Linguistic Shame through the Lens of Emotional Entanglements: The Experiences of a Zazaki Speaker in the Turkish School System

Chapter 4. Shahrzad Nouri and Vander Tavares: Exploring Racializing Assemblages Through Affects and Emotions: Emotions as Sites for the (Re)Production, Silencing, and Ruptures of Racialization in Adult Basic Education in Norway

Chapter 5. Shannon Bishop-Swart and Elzahn Rinquest: Navigating Emotional Entanglements in South African Pre-Service Teacher Education: Language Ideology, Identity and Power

Part II. Emotional Entanglements in Institutional Life and Professional Becoming

Chapter 6. Easir Arafat and Shaila Sultana: Entangled with Neoliberalised Ethos: Language Teacher Educators’ Emotion in TESOL Programmes in Bangladesh

Chapter 7. Shaila Shams: International Students and Profit-Making English Courses: A Critical Autoethnography of a Racialized English Instructor’s Intersectional Identities and Entangled Emotions

Chapter 8. Inggrit Olivin Tanasale and Parawati Sondari: Emotionally Entangled Resistance Against Colonial Ideologies in Indonesian Higher Education: A Critical Duoethnography

Chapter 9. Peter Mitchell, Amani Al Abdulsalam, Liudmila Mitchell: Talking in the Teachers’ Lounge: How Expat Teachers Navigate Entangled Emotional Experiences in Omani Higher Education

Part III. Creative Pedagogies and Emotional Transformation

Chapter 10. Yicun (Amy) Jin, Chunhong Liu and Angel M. Y. Lin: “From Hero to Zero”: Resettlement, Emotion, and Multimodal Pedagogy in Community-Based Adult Literacy Program

Chapter 11. Jennifer Burton: Spoken Word Poetry as an Affective Practice of Resistance in Language Education

Chapter 12. Elizabeth Dubberly: Embodied, Entangled, Enlivened: Poetic Research of the Dual Language Immersion Teacher Experience

Part IV. Emotional Agency, Advocacy, and Transformative Futures

Chapter 13. Leila Iranmanesh, Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini and Mahtab Janfada: Teacher Emotions as True Inquiry: The ‘Talab’ for New Visions

Chapter 14. Daniel Xerri: Empathy and Care as Entangled Emotions in ELT Advocacy: Affective Agency in Small Groups

Chapter 15. Laura Brass: Woven with Feeling: Emotional Entanglements in the Material Lives of Immigrant Women English Language Educators

Afterword. Pramod K. Sah: From Emotional Entanglements to Emotional Justice

Über Autor(innen)

Sah, Pramod K.
Pramod K. Sah is an Independent Researcher based in Vancouver, Canada. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
Education, Language, and Ideology (JELI), an open-access scholarly journal dedicated to research on language ideology and education. His recent publications include ‘Translingual Practices in English Language Education in South Asia: Inclusivity and Equity’ (co-edited with Shaila Sultana, Multilingual Matters, 2026).

Pramod K. Sah is a critical applied linguist based in Vancouver, Canada, whose work examines how colonial, liberal, and racist language ideologies shape educational and socioemotional inequalities in multilingual societies. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal
of Education, Language, and Ideology (JELI), an open-access scholarly journal dedicated to research on language ideology and education. His recent publications include Translingual
Practices in English Language Education in South Asia: Inclusivity and Equity (co-edited with Shaila Sultana, Multilingual Matters, 2026) and Assessment,
Testing and Evaluation in English-Medium Education from a Global Perspective (co-edited with Jack Pun and Samantha Curle, Multilingual Matters, 2025).