Global English and Political Economy

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Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements 1 The political economy of English in a capitalist world-system English and capital Capital and capital accumulation Capital circulation and the free riding of English Capital as part of an expanding world-system Capital as a dialectical process Accumulation and classical imperialism The development of underdevelopment Endless accumulation in a capitalist world-system Structural power in international political economy Accumulation as the endless repetition of the original sin Capital and normative English across the longue durée 2 English and the political economy of informal empire, 1688–1850 The development of informal empire The imperialism of free trade Gentlemanly capitalism The intrusion of capital, 1688–1815 Capital export and the opening to free trade, 1815–1850 3 The political economy of global English, 1850–1914 The intrusion of capital post-1850 The hinge of empire: India and the diffusion of English The social diffusion of English: Shanghai The expansion of English in Africa Railway imperialism and the transportation of English Railway imperialism and the structuring of English in China Invisible chains of English across the longue durée 4 The political economy of global English, 1918–1979 Handing over the baton: transition, 1870–1918 Networks of English and the rise of US capital, 1918–1945 English and the institutional structuring of the world-economy, post-1945 Cold War and the structuring of English in East Asia Communist containment and English incorporation US post-war capital networks: Europe, Latin America and the Middle East US linguistic seignorage and the transnationalization of English, 1968–1979 1974 oil crisis and debt structuring in the capitalist world-economy 5 Capital-centric English and the modern world-system, 1979–2008 Capitalist crisis management and the structuration of English Standard English as the capital-centric lingua franca of the capitalist world-system Sub-prime, the derivatives revolution and capital-centric English Language as a dialectical practical consciousness and the financial crisis of 2007–8 6 The decline of the US world-hegemony US hegemonic decline and the rise of China China’s structural power Hegemonic transition in a world-system US economic nationalism and the challenge of China US destabilization of the international trading system Impediments to the Chinese global hegemony 7 Superdiverse translingualism, commodification and trans-spatial resistances The multi/plural turn and the persistence of the normative form The ownership of English Language commodification Resistance and superdiverse translingualism Phonocentrism in superdiverse translingualism The normative form as a social relation of capital and capitalism 8 The demise of capitalism and the end of the hegemony of English Capitalist crisis and the normative hegemony Immiseration, inequality and anti-systemic assimilation Ideological endism and the collapse of capitalism Capitalist disintegration and the end of the English hegemony References Index