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Language and Neoliberal Governmentality book cover

1st Edition

Language and Neoliberal Governmentality

Edited By Luisa Martín Rojo, Alfonso Del Percio Copyright 2020
242 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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,... Read more

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 1

Luisa Martín Rojo & Alfonso Del Percio

Neoliberalism, language, and governmentality

PART I

Language and the neoliberalisation of institutions

CHAPTER 2

Kamila Kraft

Linguistic securitisation as a governmentality in the neoliberalising welfare state

CHAPTER 3

Nelson Flores

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

CHAPTER 4

Elisa A. Hidalgo McCabe and Noelia Fernández-González

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

CHAPTER 5

Bonnie Urciuoli

Leadership communication ‘skills’ and undergraduate neoliberal subjectivity

PART II

Language and the neoliberal subject

CHAPTER 6

Joan Pujolar

Linguistic entrepreneurship: Neoliberalism, language learning, and class

CHAPTER 7

Andrea Sunyol & Eva Codó

Fabricating neoliberal subjects through the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

CHAPTER 8

Luisa Martín Rojo

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

CHAPTER 9

Alfonso Del Percio & Sze Wan Vivian Wong

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

Afterwords

Jacqueline Urla

Towards an ethnography of linguistic governmentalities

Monica Heller

Neoliberalism as a régime of truth: Studies in hegemony

Index

　

　

Biography

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.

"Led by a lucid introduction that outlines the idea of governmentality, contributions to this book open up a new space for debating the role of language and subjectivity in the persistence of neoliberalism. Their critique of neoliberal rationality offers a timely reflection on how to resist and counter the logic of the market."　

Joseph Sung-Yul Park, National University of Singapore, Singapore

"This book reveals the faultlines in neoliberalism which scholars can uncover when they examine the ways people use neoliberal technologies of the self to manage language use and representations of language. With an expansive approach to educational sites, this imaginative volume lays important groundwork for understanding when neoliberal logics go awry."

Ilana Gershon, Indiana University, USA

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