Applied Linguistics and Politics

Christian W. Chun is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.

• Introduction, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)Part I. Media1. Political Discourse in Post-Digital Societies, Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)2. Populism as a Mediatized Communicative Relation: The Birth of Algorithmic Populism, I.E.L.(Ico) Maly (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)Part II. Economy3. Audit as Genre, Migration Industries, and Neoliberalism’s Uptakes, Alfonso Del Percio (University College London, UK)4. The Politics of Migrant Economies: Applied Linguistics looking into Thai Massage in Vienna, Mi-Cha Flubacher (University of Vienna, Austria)5. The Perceiving Subject of Irregular Employment: Applied Linguistics, Precarity, and Capitalism, Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore)Part III. Culture and Identity6. The Politics of Culture, Claire Kramsch (University of California, Berkeley, USA)7. Biopolitics and Intersex Human Rights: A Role for Applied Linguistics, Brian W. King (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)Part IV. Affect8. Wash your Hands! Domestic Labour and the Affective Economy of Racial Capitalism, Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town, South Africa)9. Politics of Commemoration and Memory, John E. Richardson (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) and Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)Part V. Education10. Language, Pedagogy, and Discourses of Criticality in Late Capitalism, Carlos Soto (University of Hong Kong)11. Organic Intellectuals or Traditional Intellectuals: Critical Discourse for Whom?, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) Index

This excellent volume brings together an impressive assembly of scholars from around the world to explore a range of contexts relevant to the study of language and politics, from media, to economics, to education. Each contribution stands as a dramatic reminder of the relevance of Applied Linguistics to the precarious political moment we find ourselves in.