?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=%E2%80%98I%E2%80%99m+already+standing+up+for+our+rights%E2%80%99%3A+Reflexive+discourse+and+minority-+based+activism+in+the+trajectory+of+an+adolescent+in+Hong+Kong&rft.creator=Perez-Milans%2C+Miguel&rft.creator=Soto%2C+Carlos&rft.description=This+article+engages+with+Archer%E2%80%99s+call+for+further+research+on+reflexivity+and+social+change+under+conditions+of+late+modernity+(2007%2C+2010%2C+2012)+from+the+perspective+of+existing+work+on+reflexive+discourse+in+the+language+disciplines+(Silverstein+1976%2C+Lucy+1993).+Drawing+from+a+linguistic+ethnography+of+the+networked+trajectories+of+a+group+of+working-class+South+Asian+youth+in+Hong+Kong+(P%3Frez-Milans+%26+Soto+2014)%2C+we+analyze+the+trajectory+of+Sita%2C+a+Hong+Kong-born+young+female+with+Nepali+background.+In+her+trajectory%2C+performative+acts+of+ethnic+minority-based+activism+emerge+as+key+in+the+enactment+of+a+given+set+of+values%2C+stances%2C+types+of+persona+and+situated+forms+of+alignment%2Fdisalignment.+That+is+to+say%2C+Sita%E2%80%99s+enactment+of+activism+is+seen+in+this+article+as+tied+to+a+discourse+register+(Agha+2007%3A+147).+As+such%2C+%E2%80%98talking%2Fdoing+activism%E2%80%99+is+inter-textually+linked+to+a+speech+chain+network+of+a+group+of+secondary+school+students%2C+teachers%2C+researchers+and+community-based+minority+activists+engaged+with+Sita+in+various+interrelated+projects+for+social+empowerment.+Analysis+of+interview+transcripts%2C+online+chats+and+multimodal+artifacts+shows+the+extent+to+which+the+coordinated+formation+of+this+discourse+register+proved+useful+in+providing+Sita+with+relevant+cultural+capital+(Bourdieu+1986)+with+which+she+shaped+her+own+academic+trajectory%2C+from+a+low-prestige+government-subsidized+secondary+school+to+an+elite+international+college.+Data+also+point+towards+the+need+for+further+engagement+with+recent+invitations+to+re-imagine+identity+and+social+action+under+current+conditions+of+diversification+(Blommaert+2013).&rft.publisher=Working+Papers+in+Urban+Language+%26+Literacies&rft.date=2016-02-01&rft.type=Working+%2F+discussion+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=++++(Working+Papers+in+Urban+Language+%26+Literacies++193).+Working+Papers+in+Urban+Language+%26+Literacies%3A+Tilburg%2C+Netherlands.+(2016)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10176065%2F1%2FWP193_Perez_Milans_and_Soto_2016_Im_alre.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10176065%2F&rft.rights=open