Category Archives: Project
Researching Multilingually’ in Sociology and Anthropology
By Dr Robert Gibb 8 September 2014 Reproduced with kind permission by the author from glasgowsociology.com What sorts of issues are raised when more than one language is used in a sociological or anthropological research project? Language has long been an important … Continue reading
Why are you studying Arabic?
Maria Grazia Imperiale – University of Glasgow 28 August 2014 (Download post here: Why are you studying Arabic?) It has been a month I am in Alexandria (Egypt), or al-Iskandaryah in Arabic, or Alex in the slang used by young cool … Continue reading
Imagine you are a Palestinian academic or a student
This post is reproduced from an article on Mondoweiss with permission by the author. The original article can be found here. By Nazmi Al-Masri on August 12, 2014 Over the one-year period from July 2013 to July 2014, I was supposed to … Continue reading
Welcome to the Researching Multilingually project blog!
From refugee camps, to border zones between so-called ‘first and third world’ countries; from the struggle to express profound trauma to the desire to overcome conditions of siege – in all these places lives are lived multilingually. Understanding and researching … Continue reading