The Politics of Incompetence
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The Politics of Incompetence

Learning Language, Relations of Power, and Daily Resistance

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eBook - ePub

The Politics of Incompetence

Learning Language, Relations of Power, and Daily Resistance

About this book

"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 ideologiesā€”"academic achievement," teacher-student hierarchy, "native speaker" ideology, normative unit thinking, and privilege of vulnerabilityā€”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 studyā€”productive cultural politics of "incompetence"ā€”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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: Identities of (In)Competence and Plurilingual Repertoires: Three Stories of Digital Storytelling in a Japanese as a Foreign Language Classroom
  6. Chapter 2: ā€œIncompetenceā€ as a Productive Force for Making the Invisible Visible: The Linguistic Landscapes Project as a Dialogic Space in a Japanese Language Classroom
  7. Chapter 3: Discourse of Incompetence, Unit Thinking, and Uses and Risks of the Translanguaging Framework: Language Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand
  8. Chapter 4: Studying La Bella Lingua as an Edu-Tourist: An Auto-Ethnographic Account of (In)competence
  9. Afterword
  10. About the Editor
  11. About the Contributors