ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the epistemological claims about the validity of certain kinds of knowledges as they relate to language and language policy. Although ethnographic and qualitative research operates within complex historical fields, we extend these methodologies to incorporate a moral discourse embedded in critical research focusing on equity and justice. We locate our methodological stance as an acknowledgment that language policy is not simply official, but that these governmentalities are the accumulation of circulating discourses around language, immigration, globalization, and nation-state formation.
