Community, Solidarity and Multilingualism in a Transnational Social Movement

Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà is Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Language, discourse and transnationalism in a social movement xx

Emmaus as a holistic social movement xx

Investigating sociolinguistic articulation across borders xx

Theoretical approaches xx

Critical ethnographic sociolinguistics xx

Transnational social movements xx

Community as a nexus xx

An ethnographic journey into a transnational field xx

Access, collaboration and positioning xx

An ethnographic toolbox xx

Structure of the book xx

Chapter 2: Historicising the transnational expansion of a social movement through key events and texts xx

Introduction xx

Transnational and multilingual expansion of a French movement xx

Foundation and "Catacombs period" (1949-1954) xx

"Insurrection of Goodness" in France (1954) and early expansion (1955-1969) xx

From the First World Assembly (1969) to the politicisation of the movement (1988) xx

Historicising religion and politics in two different Emmaus communities xx

Faith traditions and socio-political activism xx

Emmaus Barcelona: Progressive Catholicism and post-‘68 activism xx

Emmaus London: Charity and social enterprise xx

Concluding remarks: A solidarity mission over time xx

Chapter 3: Transnational articulation and socialisation through the Emmaus founding story xx

Introduction: A social movement tells a "new story" xx

Conceptual framework: Collective identity through narrative chronotopes xx

"A story of us": A chronotopic analysis of the Emmaus origin story xx

An ethnographic analysis of the movement’s founding story in situated interactions xx

Socialisation into "stories of us": Oral storytelling and semiotic artefacts xx

"Stories of self": Personal narratives of transformation xx

Concluding remarks: Creating sameness in the Emmaus social movement xx

Chapter 4: Discursive localisations of solidarity in two socio-political contexts xx

Introduction xx

"Towards other reasons to live": Alter-globalisation discourses in Emmaus Barcelona xx

Snapshot: "Stories of now" in socio-political activism xx

Zooming in: A residential project for migrants xx

"Emmaus, the homeless charity that works": Discourses of reciprocity and skilling in the UK xx

Snapshot: "Stories of now" in homeless activation xx

Zooming in: Voluntary work schemes for the homeless xx

Concluding remarks: Solidarity at the intersection of transnational trends, nation-state regimes and individual trajectories xx

Chapter 5: Language ideologies for negotiating positioning in the Emmaus social movement xx

Introduction xx

Two distinct visions of Emmaus as a movement xx

Emmaus as a "multi-national of the heart" xx

Emmaus as a rhizomatic network xx

Constructing positioning in Emmaus through language ideologies of lingua francas xx

Deproblematising language: French and Spanish as lingua francas in a Catalan community xx

Problematising language: Tensions between English and French in a recent English community xx

Concluding remarks: Ideologies of multilingualism and positioning in the

movement xx

Chapter 6: Linguistic nationalism and the erasure of multilingualism in local Emmaus communities xx

Constructing language: Between fixity and fluidity in localities xx

Fitting into (linguistic) nationalism xx

Emmaus London: Constructing a monolingual space in an English charity xx

Emmaus Barcelona: Tensions between monolingual and bilingual norms xx

Backgrounding multilingualism in everyday practices xx

Emmaus London: Institutional erasure of multilingual biographies xx

Emmaus Barcelona: Multilingualism and new migrants xx

Concluding remarks: Nationalist ideologies in a transnational social movement xx

Chapter 7: Language, transnational solidarity and utopia in an imagined community xx

Emmaus as a utopia made of "walking words" xx

What’s the (hi)story? Key findings about Emmaus as a social movement xx

Towards a sociolinguistics of transnationalism xx

What now? The story continues xx

Appendix 1: Universal Manifesto of the Emmaus movement (1969)

Appendix 2: Abbé Pierre’s Radio Appeal on 1st February 1954 (short version)

Appendix 3: Orientations – Propositions – Questions adopted at the 6th Emmaus International General Assembly in Verona (1988)

Appendix 4: Transcription conventions

References

Index