From nation-states to neoliberalism: Language ideologies and governmentality
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Title
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From nation-states to neoliberalism: Language ideologies and governmentality
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:35c79e07c27d:11306
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identifier
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11792
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Creator
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Flores, Nelson,
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Contributor
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Ofelia Garcia
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Date
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2012
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Bilingual education | English as a second language | Education policy | governmentality | langauge ideologies | language education policy | postcolonialism | poststructuralism
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Abstract
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Building on Foucault's concept of governmentality this research study examines the ways that current language ideologies marginalize the language practices of language minoritized students. The first half of this study examines the emergence of nation-state/colonial governmentality and its accompanying language ideologies as part of the European modernist project. It examines the emergence of nation-state/colonial governmentality in early US society with a particular focus on the early debates on language policy in the new nation. It then analyzes the impact of nation-state/colonial governmentality on contemporary US society through an exploration of the language ideologies utilized by both sides of the current debate over bilingual education.;The second half of this research study engages with recent insights from poststructuralist theory to examine the emergence of neoliberal governmentality and its accompanying language ideologies as part of the spread of global capitalism. It argues that dynamic language ideologies such as those used in the first half of this study reflect new understandings of language that are complicit in the production of flexible workers and life-long learners that lie at the core of neoliberal governmentality. Specifically, this study offers a reading of the concept of plurilingualism developed by the Council of Europe through the framework of neoliberal governmentality and argues that the movement in political and academic circles toward more dynamic understandings of language marks an epistemological shift that is mutually constitutive with the corporatization of society occurring as part of neoliberal governmentality. The study then examines the ways that nation-state/colonial and neoliberal governmentality are begin to converge in contemporary US society in ways that maintain US hegemony within the new global order through three interrelated frameworks: (1) Global English, (2) the securitization of bilingualism, and (3) the commodification of bilingualism.;Finally, the study explores implications of the critiques of nation-state/colonial and neoliberal governmentality through a conceptualization of language education policies that subvert both forms of governmentality through language minoritized students in developing meta ethnolinguistic subjectivities. It argues that the fluidity of these subjectivities challenges nation-state/colonial governmentality while the "meta" aspect empowers language minoritized students to resist the corporatization of their fluid language practices.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Urban Education
