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Literacy and Globalization

Uta Papen
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Community Based Tourism
Community Based Tourism Enterprise
Dominant Literacy Practices
educational inequality
English language dominance
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Literacy Practices
literacy practices in Namibia
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Local Tour Guides
Local Tourism Workers
MBEC
Meeting Literacies
multilingual societies
Municipality's Tourism Officer
Municipality’s Tourism Officer
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Namibian Association
Namibian Tourism
Namibian Tourism Industry
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Payment Reminders
postcolonial studies
practices
Private Tour Operators
Social Literacies Perspective
sociolinguistics
Specific Literacy Practices
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Tourism Discourses
Tourism Workers
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White Namibians
Windhoek Municipality
workers
Workplace Literacy Practices
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415649735
  • Weight: 410g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Oct 2012
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Using literacy practices in the newly independent post-apartheid Namibia as a lens through which to examine the effects of globalisation, this broad case study looks at issues surrounding tourism, state control and the new forces of consumerism. By placing literacy at the centre of an investigation into social and cultural change as experienced by individuals, Papen shows that in times of change, reading and writing are always implicated in structures of power and inequality. The book considers language practices that can exclude some members of Namibian society and also looks at the strategies used by local people to accommodate and even embrace the onward march of global English and the influx of foreign visitors, practices and modes of commerce and interaction.
About Uta Papen
Uta Papen is Senior Lecturer in Literacy Studies at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University and a member of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. Her main research fields are social and cultural aspects of literacy and cross-cultural studies of literacy and literacy education. She also studies the role of written texts in health care settings and in relation to pregnancy. Publications include Adult Literacy as Social Practice: More than Skills (Routledge 2005) and The Anthropology of Writing (2011, co-edited with D.Barton).

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