Ideological Becoming: Bakhtinian Concepts to Guide the Study of Language, Literacy, and Learning

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1 - Ideological Becoming: Bakhtinian Concepts to Guide the Study of Language, Literacy, and Learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 May 2010

Sarah Warshauer Freedman and

Arnetha F. Ball

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Arnetha F. Ball and

Sarah Warshauer Freedman

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Sarah Warshauer Freedman: Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Arnetha F. Ball: Affiliation:
Stanford University
Arnetha F. Ball: Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
Sarah Warshauer Freedman: Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

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In his recent exhibit, “Migrations,” photographer Sebastiao Salgado (2000) looks through his camera's eye to tell what he calls “a story of our times,” a story of massive and global movements of people. Most often these people are migrating because they seek refuge from rural poverty, or because they are refugees or displaced persons whose movements are caused by war or other political, ethnic, or religious conflict. Salgado presents haunting images of outstretched hands reaching for a new life that is just out of grasp, hungry children in parched landscapes that yield no food, masses on the move with nowhere to go. These images come from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. These are not the typical media images of globalization, which associate modernity with progress and prosperity, new technologies, and high-speed travel. We acknowledge the typical modern images, but we also think it critical not to forget Salgado's more disturbing images, which are also images of our times.

Salgado could just as easily have fixed his lens on disturbing scenes in the United States: the hungry and homeless who migrate from shelter to street in search of spare change or a bite to eat, undernourished school children moving from home to school on unsafe streets, gangs of teenagers crossing neighborhood boundaries to mark territory and engage in seemingly senseless battles. In everyday life, these scenes occur in the context of great wealth and plenty that often exists right around the corner.

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Information: Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning , pp. 3 - 33

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511755002.001 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2004

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