Circulating Discourses of Minority Education: The Linguistic Construction of Modernity in Globalizing Taiwan. (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lin, Shumin
• Is Part Of: Anthropology & education quarterly. Volume 46:Number 1(2015:Mar.)
• Page Start: 71
• Page End: 87
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: Educational anthropology -- Periodicals; Education -- Periodicals; Anthropologie et éducation -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 306.43
• DOI: 10.1111/aeq.12088
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0161-7761

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>Drawing on 15 months of fieldwork in Taiwan, this article analyzes circulating discourses and practices across heterogeneous scales that conflate Taiwanese minority‐language elders with foreign brides as nonmodern and childlike. The assiduous production and reproduction of historically and geographically displaced linguistic Others is part and parcel of the production of Taiwan's modern 21st‐century identity. Through this construction of the linguistic Other, Taiwan asserts itself as an already modern society.</p> </abstract>