Sustaining the Nation - The Making and Moving of Language and Nation

Zusatztext The authors convincingly demonstrate how global processes are transforming established notions of national identity ... the Challenges highlighted in this book will be of interest to researchers of language and nationalism in other contexts. Informationen zum Autor Monica Heller is Professor at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and Department of Anthropology at Univeristy of Ontario.Lindsay A. Bell is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at SUNY, Oswego.Michelle Daveluy is Professor of Anthropology at Université Laval.Mireille McLaughlin is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at University of Ottawa.Hubert Noël is a Ph.D. Candidate in sciences du language at Université de Moncton. Klappentext An ethnographic investigation of language, nationalism, mobility and political economyset across francophone Canada. The book examines how social difference-race, ethnicity, language, gender-has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and who must (or can) remain in place in the organization of global circulation of human and natural resources. Zusammenfassung An ethnographic investigation of language, nationalism, mobility and political economyset across francophone Canada. The book examines how social difference-race, ethnicity, language, gender-has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and who must (or can) remain in place in the organization of global circulation of human and natural resources.

Product details

• Authors: Lindsay A. Bell, Bell Lindsay A., Michelle Daveluy, Daveluy Michelle, Monica Heller, Monica Bell Heller, Heller Monica, Mireille McLaughlin, McLaughlin Mireille, Hubert Noël
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2016
• EAN: 9780199947195
• ISBN: 978-0-19-994719-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics; Oxford Studies in Sociolinguis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Canada, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Mobility, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General