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Politics of Incompetence: Learning Language, Relations of Power, and Daily Resistance

Politics of Incompetence: Learning Language, Relations of Power, and Daily Resistance

Austin, Theresa
Doerr, Neriko Musha

Hardcover

LinguisticsGeneral EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1666936235
ISBN13: 9781666936230
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 24 2024
Pages: 194
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Incompetence is not an objective state lacking competence nor a kind of deficiency that needs to be filled. Rather, it is a constructed state that is productive, working in tandem with its opposite, competence. Perception of incompetence/competence works as what Michel Foucault (1977) calls a technology of normalization that pushes individuals to aspire to follow a shared norm, while hierarchically differentiating individuals according to their proximity to the aspired norm. The notion of incompetence is thus productive in that it turns individuals into specific kinds of subjects (Foucault 1977). The Politics of Incompetence Learning Language, Relations of Power, and Daily Resistance further investigates other productive processes around the perception of incompetence specifically through its intersections with various ideologies--academic achievement, teacher-student hierarchy, native speaker ideology, normative unit thinking, and privilege of vulnerability--as such intersections generate new knowledge, new reflection on one's assumptions and privilege, new space for marginalized language, and more. This volume opens up a new area of study--productive cultural politics of incompetence--by focusing on language learning in diverse contexts: Japanese as a Foreign Language classrooms in US colleges, Italian language tourism in Italy, and indigenous Maori language revitalization at an Aotearoa/New Zealand school.

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