![]() ![]() I am sole author of The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition (Edinburgh University Press, 2003) Multilingual Identities in a Global City: London Stories (Palgrave, 2006) Second Language Identities (Continuum, 2007 re-issued in 2014 as a ‘Bloomsbury Classic in Linguistics’) Social Class and Applied Linguistics (Routledge, 2014), Political Economy and Sociolinguistics: Neoliberalism, Inequality and Social class (Bloomsbury, 2018 shortlisted for the 2019 BAAL Book Prize) and Post-Truth and Political Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). I am co-author, with John Gray and Marnie Holborow, of Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics (Routledge, 2012). I am co-editor, with Deborah Cameron, of Globalization and Language Teaching (Routledge, 2002) and with Sarah Khan, of The Secret Life of English-medium Instruction (Routledge, 2021). incorporating historical materialism and Marxist humanism) and (4) the roots and routes of intersectionality, via memoirs, biographies and other accounts of African American history and sociology and, in particular, Black feminism. Over the past ten years I have focused primarily on the dominant form of capitalism in the early 21 st century (AKA neoliberalism) and the inequality and class warfare it has wrought. My most recent work examines four different aspects of contemporary society: (1) ‘post-truth’ and related concepts and the critical analysis of discourses in the hyper-mediatised, toxic-informational environment in which we live (2) the internationalization and Englishization of higher education worldwide as part of the broader neoliberalization of societies (3) new ways of framing discussions of the construct ‘identity’ in the early 21 stcentury (e.g.
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