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Language and Neoliberal Governmentality Language, Society and Political Economy Series

Langue : Anglais

Coordonnateurs : Martín Rojo Luisa, Percio Alfonso Del

Couverture de l’ouvrage Language and Neoliberal Governmentality

Against a background of the ongoing crisis of global capitalism and the fracturing of the neoliberal project, this book provides a detailed account of the ways in which language is profoundly imbricated in the neoliberalising of the fabric of social life.

With chapters from a cast list of international scholars covering topics such as the commodification of education and language, unemployment, and the governmentality of the self, and discussion chapters from Monica Heller and Jackie Urla bringing the various strands together, the book ultimately helps us to understand how language is part of political economy and the everyday making and remaking of society and individuals. It provides both a theoretical framework and a significant methodological "tool-box" to critically detect, understand, and resist the impact of neoliberalism on everyday social spheres, particularly in relation to language.

Presenting richly empirical studies that expand our understanding of how neoliberalism as a regime of truth and as a practice of governance performs within the terrain of language, this book is an essential resource for researchers and graduate students in English language, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and related areas.

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 1Neoliberalism, language, and governmentality

PART I

Language and the neoliberalisation of institutions

CHAPTER 2 Linguistic securitisation as a governmentality in the neoliberalising welfare state

CHAPTER 3 Producing national and neoliberal subjects: Bilingual education and governmentality in the United States

CHAPTER 4 Framing 'choice' in language education: The case of freedom in constructing inequality

CHAPTER 5 Leadership communication ‘skills’ and undergraduate neoliberal subjectivity

PART II

Language and the neoliberal subject

CHAPTER 6 Linguistic entrepreneurship: Neoliberalism, language learning, and class

CHAPTER 7 Fabricating neoliberal subjects through the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

CHAPTER 8 The ‘self-made speaker’: The neoliberal governance of speakers

CHAPTER 9 Resetting minds and souls: Language, employability and the making of neoliberal subjects

Afterwords

Towards an ethnography of linguistic governmentalities

Neoliberalism as a regime of truth: Studies in hegemony

Index

Luisa Martín Rojo is Professor in Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid.

Alfonso Del Percio is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at UCL Institute of Education in London.