The neoliberal linguistic consensus
Neoliberal multilingualism and linguistic governmentality in Morocco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978494 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ahmed M Kabel (0000-0002-5101-8011, Al Akhawayn University, corresponding author), Ahmed Kabel (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 788-814 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629387.2021.1932481 |
| OpenAlex | W3165472022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 77 |
Neoliberalism has had substantial resonance in Moroccan governance in the past few decades. Neoliberalism has occasioned a wide-ranging reconstitution of profit accumulation, politics, society, and the individual 'citizen' not least as part of the construction of a new collective common sense. The contention of this paper is that Moroccan language policy/politics is articulated amidst this neoliberal capture. It unfolds in a discursive and institutional environment characterized by uneven, dispersed but dense topographies of neoliberalization, in turn carved up by the political rationalities of state-sanctioned capital accumulation, reproduction and governmentality. While tokenistically congenial to linguistic pluralism, the Moroccan language regime espouses a marked neoliberal reconfiguration of language and multilingualism. The Moroccan language regime appears to have congealed into a neoliberal linguistic consensus predicated on neoliberal multilingualism, a stratified matrix of linguistic differentiation informed by the ideologies and structures of neoliberal political economy and practices of power. Embedded in this regime is linguistic governmentality, the linguistically sanctioned nurturing of neoliberal subjectivity couched within the coordinates of performativity and the neoliberal discursive assortments of human capital, the knowledge economy, employability and lifelong learning. This paper attempts to sketch the lineaments of this evolving linguistic regime with a view to rendering visible the spaces of interplay between neoliberal governance and language politics. The paper concludes with a reflection on the implications for the analysis of potential permutations of neoliberalism under Covid-19
Biopower · Governmentality · Multilingualism · Neoliberalism (international relations · Performativity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Law · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Multilingual Education and Policy
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Introduction
World Social Science Report, 2016. Challenging Inequalities
The Cultural Studies Reader
The Claims of Culture
Epidemics and Society
The Mismanagement of Talent
Singular and Plural
Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World
The Limits of Neoliberalism
Language Policy
Governing Knowledge
Descolonitzar la ment
Foucault and lifelong learning
Handbook of Neoliberalism
Beyond neoliberalism
Between Profit and Identity
The work of ideology
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique
Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism and English Language Education Policies in the Arabian Gulf
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
Governmentality, subjectivity, and the neoliberal form of life
Structural violence and hope in catastrophic times
Legal Claims to Culture in and Against the Market
Indigenous Children's Education as Linguistic Genocide and a Crime against Humanity? A Global View/Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World
Captured by the Totally Pedagogised Society
Neoliberal co-optation and authoritarian renewal
Language skills as human capital? Challenging the neoliberal frame
Symbolic control
Inclusive’ Neoliberalism, Local Governance Reforms and the Redeployment of State Power
Shifting Priorities or Business as Usual? Continuity and Change in the post-2011 IMF and World Bank Engagement with Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt
The Government of “Others”
Human economy and social policy
The Arab state and neoliberal globalization
Urban renewal and social development in Morocco in an age of neoliberal government
Refusing a “City without Slums”
Language as pure potential
New State Space Formation in Morocco
A Way to Paradise”
Plus ça Change? Observing the Dynamics of Morocco's ‘Arab Spring’ in the High Atlas
The revolt of small towns
People Want
The Birth of Biopolitics
Understanding the mechanisms of neoliberal control
"Interventions on the politics of governing the "ungovernable
Interview - the life and times of Abdallah Laroui, a Moroccan intellectual
The coming of North Africa's 'language wars
Morocco's Hirak movement and legacies of contention in the Rif
Ispatrimoine'good to think with
Transforming the Arab World
The Problem of Slums
Ambivalence du discours sur l′arabisation
Neoliberalism as language policy
In Other Words
I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man
Self-Appreciation; or, The Aspirations of Human Capital
The Commodification of Language
Governmentality and Language
Skills and selves in the new workplace
Creating Neoliberal Citizens in Morocco
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |