Eleonore Guy
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Education
B.Sc. Anthropology, Université de Montréal, 2021
M.Sc. Anthropology, Université de Montréal, 2024
About
I am a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at UBC. My work focuses on Central Asia, particularly on Kazakhstan. My approach integrates migration studies and linguistic anthropology. I aim to analyze how discourses are circulated and recontextualized, to critically and sensitively connect them to global structural dynamics. My dissertation project examines how the recent waves of migrants moving out of Russia in the context of the war in Ukraine affect and transform discourse about languages, identity, borders and belonging in Kazakhstan. This project builds on the ethnographic fieldwork I conducted for my master’s thesis at the Université de Montréal, which focused on linguistic ideologies supporting codeswitching and languaging practices in Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital.
Publications
Guy, Eleonore. 2024. Performer une identité translinguistique: Perspectives intertextuelles sur l’écologie linguistique d’Astana. Master’s thesis. Montreal: Université de Montréal. https://hdl.handle.net/1866/33978
Guy, Eleonore. 2023. Parler russe en ex-URSS: L’indexicalité du parler quotidien au Kazakhstan. Conference prepared for VocUM: Interdisciplinary conference dedicated to languages, Université de Montréal, November 10.
Guy, Eleonore. 2023. Seeing Astana through its speakers: Intertextual perspectives on a translinguistic community. Conference prepared for Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference, University of Pittsburgh, October 20.
Guy, Eleonore. 2023. Performing identity and resistance through language choices: The reindexicalizations of Kazakh in Astana. Conference prepared for Semiotic Anthropology Conference, University of Pennsylvania, May 13.
Awards
Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctorat (CGS D), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSRCH), 2024-2028
Four-Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF), University of British Columbia, 2024-2029
Fellowship for master’s in research B1Z, Fond de Recherche du Quebec – Societes et Cultures (FRQSC), 2022-2024
Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master (CGS M), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSRCH), 2022-2023