Abstract
The concluding chapter to the volume considers the various stories the earlier chapters tell about how understandings of nation actualize themselves through language and about the consequences of language practices and policies for ideas about nation. The author concludes that promising possibilities exist for language professionals to be agentive in affecting change, but that this change will necessitate explicit critical pedagogical engagement with nationalism and the concept of nation, an engagement she refers to as nation-conscious applied linguistics practice. She examines how nation-conscious applied linguistics practice can support language specialists in countering racism, resisting homogeneity and xenophobia, and critically analyzing their contexts. As she explores implications for teacher education, language policy, and different models of education, she points to a need for applied linguistics to explicitly take on the linkages between nation and race, empire, monolingualism, White settler colonialism, and related concepts.
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