Sustaining the nation
Subtitle: the making and moving of language and nation
By: Monica Heller ; Lindsay A. Bell ; Michelle Daveluy ; Mireille McLaughlin ; Hubert Noël
Contributors: Bell, Lindsay A. (Anthropologist) author; Daveluy, Michelle (Anthropologist) author; McLaughlin, Miriam Smith, author; Noël, Hubert (Linguistic Anthropologist) author
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780199947218; 9780199947195; 9780199947201; 9780190267391
Subjects: Anthropological linguistics; Identity (Psychology); Ethnicity; Sociolinguistics
Description: The authors provides an ethnographic investigation of language, nationalism, mobility and political economyset across francophone Canada. They examine 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 organisation of global circulation of human and natural resources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sustaining the Nation: The Making and Moving of Language and Nation; title: The Making of a Mobile Ethnoclass; title: Building Bridges to Current Mobility; title: Moving Along, Back and Forth; title: Sustaining What Nation? Language and Labour in Cultural Economies; title: Conclusion: Can the Nation be Sustained; title: Bibliography.