David Divita

Books

Historias de lo no contado: Legados del autoritarismo entre los emigrantes españoles mayores en Francia. (2025). Madrid: Postmetropolis Editorial.

Untold Stories: Legacies of Authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later Life. (2024). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

“Remaking a Monument: The Troubled Meaning of Fascist Remains in Contemporary Spain.” History and Anthropology 36.4 (2025): 658-680.

“Back to Spain? Return Migration on Stage among Aging Migrants in France.” (2024). In D. Boehm and M.H. Rogozen-Soltar (Eds.), States of Return: Rethinking Migration and Mobility (pp. 42-63). New York: NYU Press.

“Radical-Right Populism in Spain and the Strategy of Chronopolitics.” Language in Society 52.5 (2023): 757–81.

“The Gendered Semiotics of Far-Right Populism on Instagram: A Case from Spain.” Discourse & Society 34.1 (2023): 22–53.

“Memes from Confinement: Disorientation and Hindsight Projection in the Crisis of COVID-19.” Language, Culture and Society 4.2 (2022): 162-188.

“Spanish Bonnes in 1960s Paris: Occupational Narratives from Transnational Migrants in Later Life.” (2021). In K. Gonçalves and H. Kelley-Holmes, H. (Eds.), Language, Global Mobilities, Blue-Collar Workers and Blue-Collar Workplaces (pp. 91-106). New York: Routledge.

“Masculine Embodiment among Sexual Minorities in a Women’s Prison.” Australian Social Work, 74.2 (2021): 172-185. (Main author: A. Smoyer)

“Domestic Spanish Handbooks: Language and Labor in the American Home.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language 262 (2020): 17-37.

“Recalling the Bidonvilles of Paris: Historicity and Authority Among Transnational Migrants in Later Life.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 29.1 (2019): 50-68.

“The Life of a Loanword: A Case Study of Le Coming Out in the French Magazine Têtu (1995-2015).” Ampersand 6 (2019). (Co-author: W. Curtis.)

“Discourses of (Be)longing: Later Life and the Politics of Nostalgia.” (2019). In R. Piazza (Ed.), Discourses of Identity in Liminal Places and Spaces (pp. 64-82). New York: Routledge.

“Talk about the Past.” Texas Linguistic Forum 61 (2018): 1-8.

“From Paris to Pueblo and Back: (Re-)Emigration and the Modernist Chronotope in Cultural Performance.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 24.1 (2014): 1-18.

“Multilingualism and Later Life: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Age and Aging.” Journal of Aging Studies 30 (2014): 94-103.

“Language Ideologies across Time: Household Spanish Handbooks from 1959 to 2012.” Critical Discourse Studies 11.2 (2014): 194-210.

“Multilingualism and the Lifespan: Case Studies from a Language Course for Spanish Seniors in Saint-Denis, France.” International Journal of Multilingualism 11.1 (2014): 1-22.

“Online in Later Life: Age as a Chronological Fact and a Dynamic Social Category in an Internet Class for Retirees.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 16.5 (2012): 585-612.