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Paths to Post-Nationalism A Critical Ethnography of Language and Identity

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ISBN-10: 0199746850

ISBN-13: 9780199746859

Edition: 2011

Authors: Monica Heller

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Nationalism informs our ideas about language, culture, identity, nation, and State--ideas that are being challenged by globalization and an emerging new economy. As language, culture, and identity are commodified, multilingualism becomes a factor in the mobility of people, ideas and goods--and in their value. In Paths to Post-Nationalism , Monica Heller shows how hegemonic discourses of language, identity, and the nation-State are destabilized under new political and economic conditions. These processes, she argues, put us on the path to post-nationalism. Applying a fine-grained ethnographic analysis to the notion of "francophone Canada" from the 1970s to the present, Heller examines…    
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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/7/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.21" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Monica Heller is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada.

Sociolinguistics as Social Practice
A Story for Our Times
A Brief Consideration of Sociolinguistics and the Nation-State
Toward a Critical Ethnographic Sociolinguistics
Ideological Shirts through the Lens of Francophone Canada
From Traditionalist to Modernizing to Post-Nationalist Discourse of the Francophone Nation
Critical Ethnographic Sociolinguistics
Labeling Experience
Critique and Ontology
Ethnography
Sociolinguistics
Critical Ethnographic Sociolinguistics and the Globalized New Economy: From Workforce to Wordforce
La foi, la race, la langue: Catholic Ethnonationalism in Francophone Canada (1926-1965, with an Interjection from 2000)
Discursive and Institutional Change
L'Ordre de Jacques Cartier
A Secret Society Seen from Below
The OJC, Modernity, and Traditional Ideologies of Language and Identity
The Dissolution and Its Aftermath
Brewing Trouble: Language, the State, and Modernity in Industrial Beer Production (Montreal, 1978-1980)
Investigating Modernizing Nationalism: Sociolinguistics in the Brewery
The Ethnolinguistic Organization of Expansion and Technologization
Position and Interest in the Francization of the Brewery
The Interactional Accomplishment of Francophonization
Discursive Shift and Political Economic Change
And What Is a Critical Ethnographic Sociolinguistics Here?
From Identity to Commodity: Schooling, Social Selection, and Social Reproduction (Toronto, 1983-1996)
If They Are Qu�b�cois, Who Are We?
Education and Institutional Territorial Nationalism
Constructing an �Oasis�
Identities and Commodities
Crawling to Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism and La cause: Modernizing Nationalism at Its Limits (Lelac, 1997-2004)
The Milieu associatif as Discursive Space
From Rights to Profits: Canada's Neoliberal Turn
Lelac: Potatoes, Milk, Trees, Tourists, and the Highway
From Cultural Survival to Added Value
Le Festival du Village
Selling the Nation, Saving the Market (All Over the Place, 2001-Present)
Authenticity and Language in the New Economy
Tourism, Terroir, and the Performance of Identity
Bounding Francophone Space
Problems of Linguistic Commodification
Paradoxes and Potentials
Paths to Post-Nationalism
Leaking Meta-Commentary
The Poster Boys of Post-Nationalism
Cool Irony, High Anxiety?
Ethnographies of Discursive Shifts
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index