I am a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences (UK) and Visiting Professor at University College London Institute of Education. Interviews in Applied Linguistics: Autobiographical Reflections on Research Processes (R outledge, 2024) Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research (Routledge, 2022) Post-Truth and Political Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Political Economy and Sociolinguistics: Neoliberalism, Inequality and Social Class (Bloomsbury, 2018 shortlisted for the 2019 BAAL Book Prize) Social Class and Applied Linguistics (Routledge, 2014) Second Language Identities (Continuum, 2007 re-issued in 2014 as a ‘Bloomsbury Classic in Linguistics’) Multilingual Identities in a Global City: London Stories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition (Edinburgh University Press, 2003) I am co-author, with John Gray and Marnie Holborow, of Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics (Routledge, 2012) With Sarah Khan: The Secret Life of English-medium Instruction (Routledge, 2021) With Deborah Cameron: Globalization and Language Teaching (Routledge, 2002) (4) the roots and routes of intersectionality : via memoirs, biographies and other accounts from African American history and sociology, Black feminism and post/decolonial literature, an examination of the multiple and intersected forms of oppression and exploitation based in class, gender, race and other aspects of being in the world. (3) new ways of framing identity as being in the world in the 21 st century : examining being in the world through a Marxist historical materialist lens, problematizing notions such as ‘belonging’ and situating the infosphere as the most important site of being and identity construction today. (2) the neoliberalisation of higher education : how the internationalisation of universities worldwide is part of the broader neoliberalisation of societies, and how English-medium instruction is a specific example of this process.
(1) the infosphere and politics : ‘post-truth’ and related concepts, communication and identity on the social media and the critical analysis of political discourses in increasingly information-toxic societies. With regard to my current work, I would say that it focuses on four distinct and different aspects of contemporary society:
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