<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all, </div><div> Please see my developing abstract below and let me know if you'd be interested in forming a panel for AAA this fall. Send your abstract or any questions you might have to me at <a href="mailto:laurenzentz@gmail.com">laurenzentz@gmail.com</a>.</div><div> Thanks, </div><div> Lauren </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reinforcing Monolingual Hegemonies: the Development State in
Globalization</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Contemporary state-level policy makers reinforce national
identity through nationally emblematic, reworked ‘indigenous’ or
‘proto-national’ (Errington, 2008) philosophies, and they are tagging onto
these philosophical orientations singular national languages that are supposed
to contain and re-awaken such philosophical orientations among their citizens.
These indigenous philosophies: <i>ujamaa</i>—or
traditional socialism—in Tanzania (Blommaert, 2014), <i>hexie</i>—harmony—in China (Wang et al., 2013), and <i>Pancasila</i>—the five pillars—in Indonesia
(Zentz, 2012) have been revitalized at different points in time in the past
century, and revitalized repeatedly among developing nations through different
waves of decolonization and globalization. They have been deployed to (often
violently) enforce an inherent, “natural” and “self-defendable
form of power and coercion that can be used to impose certain order and
normativity” (Wang et al. 2013). In this panel we will explore national
language policy statements and the histories that they are embedded within,
among various developing nations, in order to examine trends and variations as
these states vie for acceptance among an international community, while
simultaneously consolidating and naturalizing state-level hegemony by
politically and culturally unifying their nations.</p>
<div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics</div><div>Department of English</div><div>University of Houston</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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