Author

Max Spotti

Lecturer in sociolinguistics and ethnography, interested in online phenomena and their offline consequences in an era of superdiversity.

From Italy to England where I have graduated in science of education for then stumbling into Applied Linguistic and ending in linguistics ethnography once arrived in the Netherlands in 2002. At present engaged in a continuous dialogue about asylum seekers , regimentation coming through integration testing as well as basically trying to de-construct the myth that democracy and neo-liberalism have led us to a fairer society, which I define instead - following Baumann - una societa' dello scarto (a society that produces trash) out of its embedded normativity. 

Asylum seeking, identity construction, public and political discourse, primary education, superdiversity, migration, ICT for L2 learning, mobile phone based language and culture learning, citizenship and testing regimes