ABSTRACT
In the Discourse of Fast capitalism, social, economic, cultural, and technological Development serves as the overriding code for construing and constructing the world. “Super-developed” countries like the US mobilize all their geopolitical, military, technological, and economic capital to “recruit” governments and people across the world into subscribing to the myth that “marketization” is an unstoppable force for the natural good of the world. Vigilance toward the English we endorse can move us toward reflexive critique, but also, as the chapters in this collection illustrate, toward proactive efforts: practices which mobilize articulations (in words and deeds, that of our own and by the people we talk to, study, teach, and represent) aiming to make the standardized englishes of Developed Countries serve purposes and conditions of life critical to the learner/user but de-legitimized by the standardized englishes of Developed Countries.
