Multilingual Matters Statehood, Scale and Hierarchy: History, Language and Identity in Indonesia (Encounters): 9

Against the background of language and nation formation in Indonesia, this book demonstrates how language planning is inseparable from the broader actions of the state, and how postcolonial nationalism and globalization have had profound implications for language use and state actions to control it. Using language planners' texts, national and regional policy statements and the discussions of university English majors, it explores the borders of what can be defined as Indonesian, Javanese and English languages, and how this is informed by ideologies of language and nationalism in contemporary Indonesia. The tensions played out in the book between the ideologically perceived languages around which policies are built and the realities of linguistic performance and the resources of the individual are echoed across the globe, making this book crucial reading for anyone interested in the interplay of language planning and language use. Review Just brilliant. Zentz's analysis is admirably nuanced, fresh and challenging. Her insight compels us to radically reconsider the familiar notions of social identity, institutionalised power, and the politics of languaging in a world dominated by English. --Ariel Heryanto, Monash University, Australia Lauren Zentz uses sophisticated theory and methods to offer highly accessibly, yet incredibly nuanced insights into the relationships between language and globalization. The book offers a brilliant account of university students' ideologies about Indonesian, Javanese, and English, and how these ideologies are mediated by other language ideologies from diverse, constantly changing, and hierarchically organized scales. Zentz has written an instant classic that will secure a space on reading lists for a long time to come. --Zane Goebel, La Trobe University, Australia Zentz's rigorous scholarship presents a powerful, fine-grained, richly detailed, ethnographically insightful, and theoretically compelling study of language practices and policies situated in the complex web of social, historical, and political dynamics of local, national and global forces in contemporary Indonesia. --Perry Gilmore, The University of Arizona, USA About the Author Lauren Zentz is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Houston, USA. Her research interests include language policy, language and identity, and nationalism and state formation. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Statehood, Scale and Hierarchy History, Language and Identity in Indonesia By Lauren Zentz Multilingual Matters Copyright © 2017 Lauren Zentz All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-78309-846-0 Contents List of Abbreviations, Acknowledgments, Preface, 1 States, Language(s) and Globalization, 2 Engineering an Imagined Community, 3 Locating Languages in Time and Space, 4 Preserving the Nation: The Threat Beyond our Borders, 5 The State Marches On, Appendix, References, Index, CHAPTER 1 States, Language(s) and Globalization ... [T]he model of official nationalism assumes its relevance above all at the moment when revolutionaries successfully take control of the state, and are for the first time in a position to use the power of the state in pursuit of their visions ... 'official nationalism' was from the start a conscious, self-protective policy, intimately linked to the preservation of imperial-dynastic interests ... The one persistent feature of this style of nationalisms was, and is, that it is official – i.e. something emanating from the state, and serving the interests of the state first and foremost. Anderson, 2006: 159, emphasis in original 1.1 On Not Feeling Foreign in One's Own Capital City Officially in Indonesia, signs in public must be written in Indonesian 'except where local or foreign languages are necessary'. This is written in the national law on language, Undang-Undang Republik Indonesia 24/2009, the slogan of which states t