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.

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.

• List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1: States, Language(s) and GlobalizationChapter 2: Engineering an Imagined CommunityChapter 3: Locating Languages in Time and SpaceChapter 4: Preserving the Nation: The Threat Beyond our BordersChapter 5: The State Marches OnAppendix AReferences

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.

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.

• List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1: States, Language(s) and GlobalizationChapter 2: Engineering an Imagined CommunityChapter 3: Locating Languages in Time and SpaceChapter 4: Preserving the Nation: The Threat Beyond our BordersChapter 5: The State Marches OnAppendix AReferences