Special Issue on “Considering Emotions as Entanglements in Applied Linguistics”

Emotional (Dis/Un)entanglement in Becoming an Academic in the Neoliberal Era: Dialogising Transnational Accounts of Being, Thinking and Feeling.

This paper, by Mahtab Janfada, Angel M. Y. Lin, Fei Victor Lim, Jiajia Eve Liu, explores the complex emotions and affective challenges that academics might experience in their journey of becoming within neoliberal higher education contexts transnationally. Informed by dialogic philosophy and methodology, diverse accounts of four transnational academics in language education are presented to embrace such complex and entangled emotions; Instead of offering an instrumental solutions, authors put forth an affective and agentive approach for a richer and more sustainable process of becoming. This paper in part of a special issue on “Considering Emotions as Entanglements in Applied Linguistics”, edited by Peter De Costa, Maddhu KC and Pramod K.Sah. It is available open access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijal.12724