Statehood, Scale and Hierarchy: History, Language and Identity in Indonesia

278 Pages·2017·3.319 MB·

by  Lauren Zentz

Statehood, Scale and
Hierarchy
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ENCOUNTERS: 9
Statehood, Scale and
Hierarchy
History, Language and Identity in Indonesia
Lauren Zentz
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS
Bristol • Blue Ridge Summit
DOI 10.21832/ZENTZ8460
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Names: Zentz, Lauren, author.
Title: Statehood, Scale and Hierarchy: History, Language and Identity in
Indonesia/Lauren Zentz.
Description: Bristol; Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, [2017] |
Series: Encounters: 9 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017013359| ISBN 9781783098460 (hbk : alk. paper) | ISBN
9781783098484 (epub) | ISBN 9781783098491 (kindle)
Subjects: LCSH: Language planning—Indonesia—History. | Language
planning—Indonesia—Political aspects. | Language policy—Indonesia. |
Identity politics—Indonesia. | Indonesia—History. |
Sociolinguistics—Indonesia. | Anthropologial linguistics—Indonesia.
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Contents
List of Abbreviations xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Preface xvii
1 States, Language(s) and Globalization 1
1.1 On Not Feeling Foreign in One’s Own Capital City 1
1.2 The State and its Language(s) 2
1.3 Globalization and State Formation 8
1.4 Scales and Performativity, Time and Space 16
1.5 Methodology and Researcher Positionality 24
1.6 Learning the Ecology 34
1.7 The Layout of this Book 47
2 Engineering an Imagined Community 51
2.1 Satriya Speaks Indonesian 51
2.2 The Historical Setup for Nation and Language Planning 53
2.3 The Language Planners 79
2.4 The (Re-)scaled Nation 96
3 Locating Languages in Time and Space 98
3.1 But You Still Use Javanese, Right? 98
3.2 Creating and Erasing Languages 100
3.3 What is Shifting in Language Shift? 114
3.4 A Transition: New Technologies, National Scales 134
4 Preserving the Nation: The Threat Beyond our Borders 141
4.1 Free Sex and Vulgar Clothes 141
4.2 How Much English? 142
4.3 Why English and Whose English? 159
4.4 Knowing English When it is Semiotically Everywhere 174
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4.5 Repertoires, Motivation and Identity 189
4.6 Globalization, Economic Interests and the English Language 202
5 The State Marches On 206
5.1 Endless Efforts to Re-scale 206
5.2 To Our Friend, Richard Ruíz 213
5.3 The Endless Project 214
Appendix 219
References 228
Index 243
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