This book examines the linguistic and discursive elements of social and economic policies and national political leader statements to read new meanings into debates on border protection, national sovereignty, immigration, economic indigenisation, land reform and black economic empowerment. It adds a fresh angle to the debate on nationalisms and transnationalism by pushing forward a more applied agenda to establish a clear and empirically-based illustration of the contradictions in current policy frameworks around the world and the debates they invite. The authors novel vernacular discourse approach contributes new points of method and interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on nationalisms, transnationalism and other forms of identity imaginings in a transient world.
PART I: SETTING THE SCENE.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Theories, Concepts, Debates.- Chapter 2: Emergent Political Languages, Nation-building, Social Cohesion.- PART II: LANGUAGE, VERNACULAR DISCOURSES, NARROW NATIONALISMS.- Chapter 3: Language Policy, Vernacular Discourse, Empire Building.- Chapter 4: Language, Mobility, People.- PART III: CITIZENSHIP, INDIGENEITY, ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT.- Chapter 5: Chimurengas, Indigenisation, Black Economic Empowerment.- Chapter 6: Alternative Language of Development and Economic Empowerment.- PART IV: MIGRATION, BORDERS, EXCLUSION.- Chapter 7: Migration, Integration Discourse, Exclusion.- Chapter 8: Australias Operation Sovereign Borders: A World without Others?.- PART V: CONCLUSION.- Chapter 9: Conclusion Transnationalism or Resurgent Narrow Nationalisms?.
Finex Ndhlovu is Associate Professor of Language in Society at the University of New England, Australia, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA, and Visitinl£
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