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This book presents a unique perspective from an underrepresented region in the Global South. The volume features four different countries in the region: Barbados, Guyana, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as Martinique, which is an overseas region of France. This volume documents innovations in learning and teaching Spanish, French, and Chinese in the case of the English-speaking countries, and English as a foreign language (EFL) in the case of Martinique. The chapters cover different aspects of language education in the Caribbean and will be of particular interest to those involved in managing change in language education that attempts to mediate between global and local needs. Diego Mideros is a lecturer in Spanish at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. He coordinates the non-specialist Spanish language courses at the university’s Centre for Language Learning. His interests are learner autonomy, out-of-class learning, identity in language learning, and qualitative approaches to L2 research. Nicole Roberts is a senior lecturer in Spanish and the Acting Director, Centre for Language Learning, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. She has published on social and socio-cultural factors which impact reading comprehension and writing in Spanish as well as the importance of study abroad on FL acquisition. Beverly-Anne Carter is a retired Professor of Applied Languages and Director (2005-2022) of the Centre for Language Learning, St. Augustine Campus of The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. She has published in the areas of learner autonomy in language learning, foreign language pedagogy and methodology, and language policy and planning. Hayo Reinders (www.innovationinteaching.org) is TESOL Professor and Director of Research at Anaheim University, USA, and Professor of Applied Linguistics at KMUTT in Thailand. He is founder of the Global Institute for Teacher Leadership and editor of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. His interests are in out-of-class learning, technology, and language teacher leadership.

Language and languages --- Intercultural communication. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Multilingualism. --- Language Teaching and Learning. --- Language Education. --- Intercultural Communication. --- Latin American Culture. --- Study and teaching. --- Latin America.

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While previous research has explored the academic adaptation or acculturation processes of Chinese students studying abroad, limited attention has been paid to students’ own perspectives and narrations of their experience. To contribute to a more nuanced understanding of this highly mobile group, this study takes a closer look at the students’ self-identity narratives. How do they make sense of their foreign adventure? How do they position themselves among their peers and their family members, as well as within the greater transnational context? Based on 29 in-depth, biographical interviews with Chinese students in the United States, the findings show the participants’ continuously interpreting and revising their individual, academic, and cultural identities. In the familial context, a recurring narrative of the high-potential only-child could be observed. Many students (and their family members) felt that their unique talents and personalities were not appreciated within the Chinese educational system and thus sought more holistic environments abroad. About the author Dr. Sarah Köksal is a researcher in American Cultural History and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig Maximilian University. For her research project on narrative identities of Chinese international students she conducted fieldwork at the University of California Berkeley and was a recipient of the 2021 LMU-UCB Excellent Research in the Humanities Scholarship.

Ethnology—America. --- Culture. --- Ethnology. --- American Culture. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects

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This Palgrave Pivot offers new insights into leading Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa, investigating the dynamic composition of her texts, and situating her work in a larger hemispheric tendency of performativity emerging at the turn of the millennium. Presenting Anzaldúa as a quintessential figure of feminist and decolonial theory-making in the Americas, this book argues that the Chicana writer articulated her notions on fluctuations through “performative concepts” which did not respect the borders of single texts or editions, but organically grew through them. The offered close readings of Anzaldúa’s published works, drafts, and archive material demonstrate the constant changes and intertwined phases of her literary and conceptual production. Romana Radlwimmer is Professor of Romance Literatures at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. She has held teaching and research positions in literary and cultural studies at the Universities of Salamanca, Lisbon, Augsburg, and Tübingen, and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Missouri, US. She is the author of Wissen in Bewegung: LatinaKulturtheorie / Literaturtheorie / Epistemologie (2015), and the editor of the volume Transborder Matters: Circulaciones literarias y transformaciones culturales chicanas y mexicanas (2020). She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in her fields of research.

Latin American literature. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Feminism and literature. --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Culture. --- Intermediality. --- Latin American/Caribbean Literature. --- Feminist Literary Theory. --- Latin American Culture. --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Literature and feminism --- Literature --- Social aspects --- Women authors --- Ethnology --- Philosophy. --- Latin America. --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Theory

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'Insurrectionist Ethics' is the name given to denote the myriad forms of justification for radical social transformation in the interest of freedom for oppressed people. It is a set of advocacy systems that usually aim at liberation for specified populations under siege in a given society. While the identities of these beleaguered groups is always intersectional, one salient criterion of group membership is often chosen to be the rallying point for solidarity. Whether the movement is “Black Lives Matter, “Gay Pride”, or “Poor People’s Campaign,” at the nucleus of each is a cry for emancipation. The contributions in this volume put forward bold, forcefully argued, provocative claims that challenge in a fundamental and radical way the presuppositions, values, and beliefs that underwrite the systems and structures that insurrectionist ethics calls into question. The volume begins with a section defining and theorizing what insurrectionist ethics is, and then moves to a section studying insurrectionist ethics across the Americas. Additional sections focus on applications of and correctives to insurrectionist ethics, pragmatism and naturalism, and the past, present, and future of insurrectionist ethics. .

Philosophy, American. --- Philosophy, African. --- African Americans. --- Culture. --- American Philosophy. --- African Philosophy. --- African American Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Black people --- African philosophy --- American philosophy --- Social aspects --- Social justice --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Equality --- Justice

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This book fills research gaps in the field of Latin American electoral politics, explaining the causes and consequences of electoral manipulation in the hybrid regimes of Latin America between the 1980s and 2020s. This research falls within the field of comparative democratization with the ambition of deepening knowledge on the topic of electoral manipulation in hybrid regimes. In the last decade there has been a clear shift towards hybrid regimes in a considerable number of states (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Honduras). The common occurrence of such regimes, often referred to by the collective term "hybrid" or "mixed", has led to a rapid expansion of empirical research. However, the current state of research in this field is unsatisfactory. Although existing scholarship tends to agree that the common feature of these regimes is the incumbents' tendency to interfere in political competition, little is known about how incumbents select between different forms of electoral manipulation and how such different forms go on to affect electoral results. Jaroslav Bílek is a Research Fellow at the Department of Politics at the University of Hradec Králové, the Czech Republic.

Elections. --- Political science. --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Culture. --- Electoral Politics. --- Politics and International Studies. --- Latin American Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Polls --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Representative government and representation --- Social aspects