The book is not only rich in case studies: its author manages to create a connection to her readers.

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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 sociolinguistic practices in workplaces, schools, community associations, NGOs, State agencies, and sites of tourism and performance across francophone North America and Europe. Her work shows how the tensions of late modernity produce competing visions of social organization and competing sources of legitimacy in attempts to re-imagine-or resist re-imagining-who we are.
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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.
(1926-1965, WITH AN INTERJECTION FROM 2000); PRODUCTION (MONTREAL, 1978-1980); REPRODUCTION (TORONTO, 1983-1996); 1997-2004); EPILOGUE
"The book is not only rich in case studies: its author manages to create a connection to her readers."--Linguist List
Selling point: Synthesizes a career's worth of research Selling point: Combines data-driven commentary and personal narrative
Monica Heller is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Selling point: Synthesizes a career's worth of research Selling point: Combines data-driven commentary and personal narrative

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ISBN
9780199746866
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
431 gr
Høyde
160 mm
Bredde
234 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

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Biografisk notat

Monica Heller is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.