Symbolic annihilation
Processes influencing English language policy and teaching practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21175490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yecid Ortega (0000-0002-4039-074X, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-85 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Inquiry in Language Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1542-7587 • E-ISSN: 1542-7595 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15427587.2023.2215361 |
| OpenAlex | W4377287952 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 63 |
Using a critical approach, I discuss the socioeconomic power impact of capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization in the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Colombia, described as a symbolic annihilation process. I argue how these three constructs have influenced language policy-decisions making processes and classroom practices by providing documentation from an 8-month critical ethnographic study. This research was interested in understanding participants’ experiences, as well as exposing the inequalities they faced in a marginalized context in which ‘death’ seems to be the norm. This article theorizes that a necropolitical process has been enacted not only on the human bodies of teachers and students but as a subtle source of political power that operates to eliminate, transform and dismantle the possibilities for teacher autonomy, employment possibilities and choice of languages to be learned. I conclude by describing how teachers counter this necropolitical power by responding to their school realities
Autonomy · Capitalism · Critical ethnography · Ethnography · Foreign language · Globalization · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Power structure · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic power · Anthropology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |