Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to Semiotic Landscape research
Edited by Máiréad Moriarty and Maida Kosatica
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 11:2 (2025) v, 100 pp.
Maida Kosatica
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maida Kosatica is involved.
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2025 On the skids: Mediating anguish, visibilising abusive places Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to Semiotic Landscape research, Moriarty, Máiréad and Maida Kosatica (eds.), pp. 172–197 | Article
As a way of identifying places which visibilise vulnerable groups, this paper analyses stories of people living on Los Angeles’ Skid Row from their visual portraits posted on photographer Mark Laita’s YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly. Recognising the important role of oral narratives in the… read more
2025 Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to SL research Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to Semiotic Landscape research, Moriarty, Máiréad and Maida Kosatica (eds.), pp. 111–117 | Introduction
2024 Semiotic landscape in a green capital: The political economy of sustainability and environment Linguistic Landscape 10:2, pp. 136–165 | Article
In the wake of the ‘climate apocalypse’ global discourse, the environmental agenda of the European Green Deal and the overarching objective for the European Union are to deliver a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment. European cities are under pressure to… read more
2018 Emplacing hate: Turbulent graffscapes and linguistic violence in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina Linguistic Landscape 4:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the 1992–1995 war is the foundation on which its citizens are building their future. Contested spaces marked by violence are (re)created by means of graffiti frequently conveying locally hegemonic (re)narrations of legitimacy and attestation. Following the lead of scholars… read more