{"product_id":"language-as-statecraft","title":"Language as Statecraft","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the rise of English in Rwanda, offering critical insights into the links between language, colonialism, and capitalism, with implications for our understanding of global English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpowage takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on political theory, cultural-materialism, and critical sociolinguistics. She positions language policy as an instrument for social reproduction and exploitation, but also a site of struggle and contest. Unravelling the complex history of language politics and policy in Rwanda, Spowage elaborates a theory of language as statecraft. This approach draws attention to the endurance of a colonial-capitalist link between language and social class, while illuminating the specific power of English in legitimising neoliberal political power and class hierarchies. On this basis, Spowage argues for a theoretical reimagining of the spread of English through the ‘global English nébuleuse’, a model which aims to capture the complex mechanisms that reinforce the dominance of English and to identify points where those mechanisms are fragile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative volume will be of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, global Englishes, language and politics, and African studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54237049422168,"sku":"9781032261508","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032261508_361071c8-9e71-4f6c-9435-dd48bbc566d8.jpg?v=1770476414","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/language-as-statecraft","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}