Publications
2022 onwards
Critical decolonial scholarship on communication and disability
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Accent for Sale: Collusive Erasure of Racism and Ableism in the Marketplace of Pathologized Speech
Yu, B., Rosa, M & Nair, V.K. (Forthcoming). Accent for Sale: Collusive Erasure of Racism and Ableism in the Marketplace of Pathologized Speech. In Henner, Robinson & Moriarty (Eds). Crip Speech in Crip Linguistics Reader. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
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Spaces of Reprieve: An Emancipatory Practice Centering Black and Brown Labelled Children
Farah, W & Nair, V.K. (Forthcoming). Spaces of Reprieve: An Emancipatory Practice Centering Black and Brown Labelled Children. In Hackett, A et al. (Eds). Language, Place, and the Body in Early Childhood Literacies: Theory, Practice and Social Justice. London: Routledge.
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Decolonising Speech and Language Therapy. Critical Foundational Concepts for Research, Pedagogy and Praxis
Nair, V.K., Brea, M.B., & Yu, B (accepted). Decolonising Speech and Language Therapy. Critical Foundational Concepts for Research, Pedagogy and Praxis. Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability.
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Is Neurodiversity a Global Northern White Paradigm?
Nair, V. K., Farah, W., & Boveda, M. (2024). Is neurodiversity a Global Northern White paradigm?. Autism, 13623613241280835.
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"I kept telling myself I have to learn; it is good for me and my children”: Motherhood, motivation and learning English amongst a group of Pakistani British women
Rasool, Z. and Hackett, A. (2024) "I kept telling myself I have to learn; it is good for me and my children”: Motherhood, motivation and learning English amongst a group of Pakistani British women, TESOL journal.
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A critical analysis of standardised testing in speech and language therapy. Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
Nair, V. Farah, W. and Cushing, I. (2023) A critical analysis of standardised testing in speech and language therapy. Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 54(3): 781-793.
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Accent modification as a raciolinguistic ideology: a commentary in response to Burda et al.
Nair, V., Khamis, R., et al. (2023). Accent modification as a raciolinguistic ideology: a commentary in response to Burda et al.(2022). Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability, 1(1), 105-112.
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Gaps in Framing and Naming: Commentary to “A Viewpoint on Accent Services”
Yu, B., Nair, V. K., Brea, M. R., Soto-Boykin, X., Privette, C., Sun, L., Khamis, R., Sheen Chiou, H., Fabiano-Smith, L., Epstein, L., & Hyter, Y. D. (2022). Gaps in Framing and Naming: Commentary to “A Viewpoint on Accent Services”. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 31(4), 1913-1918.
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More than human literacies: place, body & materiality
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Language, place and the body in childhood literacies; theory, practice and social justice
Badwan, K. Churchill Dower, R. Farah, W. Flewitt, R. Hackett, A. Holmes, R. MacRae, C. Nair, V. Shannon, D. (under contract) Language, place and the body in childhood literacies; theory, practice and social justice. Routledge, part of the Routledge Expanding Literacies in Education book series.
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The entanglement of language and place in early childhood: A review of the literature
Shannon, D. and Hackett, A. (2024) The entanglement of language and place in early childhood: A review of the literature. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.
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Opaque reciprocity: or theorising Glissant’s ‘right to opacity’ as a communication and language praxis in early childhood education
Shannon, D. and Hackett, A. (2024) Opaque reciprocity: or theorising Glissant’s ‘right to opacity’ as a communication and language praxis in early childhood education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 45 (1): 118-130.
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Beyond Transparency: more-than-human insights into the emergence of young children’s language
Hackett, A. (2022) Beyond Transparency: more-than-human insights into the emergence of young children’s language. Literacy, 56 (3), 244,252.
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Unruly Edges: Toddler Literacies of the Capitalocene
Hackett, A. (2022) Unruly Edges: Toddler Literacies of the Capitalocene. Global Studies of Childhood, 12 (3), 263-276.