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Vijay Ramjattan
@vijayramjattan.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream @ OISE, University of Toronto / Mainly examining the intersections of language, race, and work within the context of education / he, him

https://www.vijay-ramjattan.com/
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Check out my latest article, which explores how vocal accent, a seemingly auditory construct, reinforces the problematic idea that race is simply something we see.

It is open access, so there is no excuse not to read it:

doi.org/10.1111/ijal...
Experiencing racism does not make you immune from perpetuating racism.

Similarly, experiencing accentism does not make you immune from projecting ideas of "good" and "bad" accents.
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Proud and happy to finally see this chapter come out, and part of such a great collection.

Thanks again to the editors, Jane Setter @sdovchin.bsky.social @vijayramjattan.bsky.social
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Incredible Language and Refugee Legal Processes: Challenging Asylum Credibility Assessments
AbstractFor asylum seekers in the Global North, gaining long-term protection is dependent on successfully passing through a rigorous assessment process. Su
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October 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Fighting against accentism requires moving away from statements like "Everyone has an accent" to declarations such as "Not all accents are created equal."
October 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I have my copies of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice!

I would like to thank @janesetter.bsky.social and @sdovchin.bsky.social as well as our contributors for rearticulating the relationship between language and prejudice.

Ask your library to order a copy:

shorturl.at/q87Bz
September 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
From a white supremacist perspective:

Being professional = quietly accepting racism at work
Being unprofessional = calling out this racism
September 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I will be giving a hybrid talk at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Linguistics Department about my recent book, Workable Accents.

What does academic labour sound like?

Using the case of international teaching assistants, my talk attempts to answer this question!
September 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Pronunciation is not a technical action.

Pronunciation is a political act.
September 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"Native" and "nonnative English speaker" are products of racism, colonialism, and nationalism.

They are not objective linguistic descriptors.
August 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Do you work in #education? This post is for you. It centres #Gaza at the heart of everything we do and say in education.

Living with Wounds in Education

www.repair-ed.uk/reparative-p...

Read it. Share it. Act on it

#GazaMatters
Reparative Praxis with Gaza
This guest post by Dr. Khawla Badwan asks: What does it mean to repair with Gaza?
www.repair-ed.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
You do not assess the pedagogical competence of an immigrant teacher through their accent.

You assess the pedagogical competence of an immigrant teacher through their actual pedagogy.
August 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I finally have physical copies of my book!

If you are interested in how accent acts as a type of work in higher education, then you should read Workable Accents.

30% off if you buy from Bloomsbury:

www.bloomsbury.com/ca/workable-...

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social / @bloomsburyling.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
You should not have to standardize your speech in order to be heard.
August 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Open Access for this new exited collection Beyond Sanctuary. Please read and circulate.

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Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion
The contributors to Beyond Sanctuary examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state powe
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August 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Please contribute to help Hammam's family. They are in absolutely desperate circumstances. Anything helps.
August 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”

- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
August 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Once again, language teaching is inherently political because languages are political inventions in the first place.
August 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
White supremacy is the problem, not those who point out this fact.
August 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It takes a certain kind of ignorance and arrogance to believe that if marginalized people change the way they sound, they will automatically get people to listen to them in a more ethical manner.
August 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Ep. 163: Gaza and Global Sport

We return from our too-long hiatus to discuss athletic boycott in the context of genocide with former Ireland basketball captain Rebecca O'Keeffe, as well as our views on some of the atrocities over the last seven months.

open.spotify.com/episode/3Odh...
August 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
"Professionalism" is typically used to police marginalized workers, not uplift them.
August 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Just asked my library to purchase this book! You should do the same! #appliedlinguistics #accent
My book is now officially available to order!

Workable Accents critically explores how international teaching assistants in Canadian universities vocally fashion and contest various aspects of their academic labour.

Please ask your university or local library to order a copy:

shorturl.at/MfGLQ
August 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Thanks very much for Prof. David Gramling for writing an insightful blurb for my book!

Just another reminder that Workable Accents is available to order (sadly, there is a delay with print copies, but e-copies are readily available):

shorturl.at/MfGLQ
August 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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LANGUAGE & POLITICAL SUBJECTIVITY: Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela by Miki Makihara and Juan Luis Rodríguez ( @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social) has now been published!

Find out more here: bit.ly/4jTo9UQ

#PoliticalAnthropology #Anthropology #EconomicAnthropology
July 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM