Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication

Louise Mullany, Stephanie Schnurr, Louise Mullany, Stephanie Schnurr

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780367748128
• eBook ISBN: 9781000685855
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This edited collection investigates the linguistics of globalisation, geopolitics and gender in workplace cultures in a range of different contemporary international settings. The chapters examine how issues of globalisation, gender and geopolitics affect professionals in different workplace contexts, including domestic workers; IT professionals; teachers, university staff; engineers; entrepreneurs; CEOs of different corporates including locally based businesses as well as multinationals; farmers; co-operative leaders; NGO leaders; bloggers; healthcare assistants and caregivers.

Taking different sociolinguistic approaches to exploring language and the geopolitics of gender at work in Dubai, Kuwait, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, Nigeria, Malaysia, Turkey, Belgium, Switzerland, New Zealand, Uganda, the UK and the USA, each chapter focuses on a range of salient geopolitical issues which often have global applicability, but which may also be subject to more localised socio-cultural variation. The chapters critically discuss issues of gendered language, perceptions and representations of workplace cultures, discrimination, the role of gendered stereotyping and deeply ingrained socio-cultural myths about gender and the importance of examining the intersections of identity – all of which continue to persist as barriers to equality and inclusion in workplaces worldwide.

Despite the variation and diversity in professions and geopolitical contexts captured across the chapters, remarkably similar issues of gender discrimination and persisting inequalities are identified and critically discussed, thus pointing to the global nature of these issues.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Globalisation, geopolitics and gender: key issues for professional communication
• 2 “A financially independent woman is a gift to any nation”: exploring the sociolinguistics of family and work in leadership stories around the world
• 3 Narratives of identity and gendered leadership in East African workplaces: intersectionality, global development goals and challenging boundaries
• 4 “Gender equality discourse is the glass ceiling we hit here”: women’s academic leadership narratives in a gender-sensitive university context in Turkey
• 5 Women’s empowerment, employment and exclusion. Discourses in economic competitiveness initiatives in Malaysia
• 6 A reversed gender bias? Exploring intersectional identity work by Belgian women with a Turkish or Moroccan migration background
• 7 The battle heads underground: unrecognised bias in everyday workplace talk
• 8 ‘It doesn’t matter if you’re female or male it’s the same thing.’ Re-gendering the notion of work in agile workplaces in Switzerland, the UK and the USA
• 9 Performing discipline in UK primary school classrooms. Challenging essentialist beliefs about teacher gender
• 10 Gender, politics and national identity stereotypes: constructing legitimate professional identities in the UK House of Lords
• 11 Epilogue: geopolitical lenses (and mirrors) in workplace language and gender research
• Index