Journal article
Unpacking the Covid-19 Rhetorical Situation from a Resilient Diasporic Community Perspective: Some Pedagogical Implications
Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, Vol.8(2), pp.1487-1511
Winter 2022
Abstract
Covid-19 has exposed us to some of the ugliest realities of our society, most tellingly, existing social and economic inequalities. This time has also put a question mark on the assumed self-superiority, resourcefulness, and preparedness of developed nations to tackle a crisis such as this. Several studies that came out during the pandemic have shed light on racial, political tensions, ecological destruction while also reminding us of our shared globality, shared fate, and future. Especially during the onset of the panic time, conversations were focused on the role of state or region (such as the United States or the European Union) to crisis communicate and to develop control mechanisms (scale up vaccine production, collaborations across nations and regions). However, relatively less attention has gone on how smaller immigrant communities within the Global North have channeled community resources and energies during the time of global panic. This essay takes up the left-out task of paying attention to and learning from an immigrant community in the Global North, namely the Nepali diaspora in Canada. It explores the way the community handled the time of hopelessness, unknowability, stress and anxiety, 1 Production credits Founding editors/editors: Marohang Limbu and Binod Gurung 2 Dhruba Neupane, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Iowa. He specialized in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at the University of Waterloo. His research lies in the intersection of language/literacy, nationality, migration/mobility, and race, specifically focusing on how international students and immigrants negotiate and navigate language and identity in academic, social, and civic spaces and re-imagine themselves in situations not of their own choosing. His publications are situated within the discourse around diversity and insist on de-neoliberalizing, decolonizing, and detokenizing diversity from the current coalescent forces of market (neoliberalism) and state.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Unpacking the Covid-19 Rhetorical Situation from a Resilient Diasporic Community Perspective: Some Pedagogical Implications
- Creators
- Dhruba J Neupane (Author) - University of Iowa, Rhetoric
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, Vol.8(2), pp.1487-1511
- ISSN
- 2128-1333
- Copyright
- ©2023
- Language
- English
- Date published season
- Winter 2022
- Date published
- 12/2022
- Academic Unit
- Rhetoric
- Record Identifier
- 9984420359202771
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