Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication by Louise Mullany & Stephanie Schnurr instant download

Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication by Louise Mullany & Stephanie Schnurr instant download

This volume investigates the linguistics of globalisation, geopolitics and gender in workplace cultures in a range of different contemporary settings. Drawing on new empirical data, the chapters examine how issues of globalisation, gender and geopolitics affect professionals in different workplace contexts and professions, including domestic workers, IT professionals, teachers, university staff, politicians, engineers; entrepreneurs, CEOs of different corporates including locally based businesses as well as multinationals, NGO leaders, bloggers, healthcare assistants and caregivers. Topics include identity, intersectionality, migration, intercultural communication and the persistence of deeply ingrained gender and cultural ideologies.
Taking different sociolinguistic approaches to exploring language and the geopolitics of gender at work in Dubai, Kuwait, Kenya, 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 cultural contexts captured across the chapters, similar issues of gender discrimination and persisting inequalities are identified, pointing to the global nature of these issues. The changing nature of the professions and future developments towards more workplace equality are discussed and debated.