Part I: The colonial state. The technocrats : challenges of governance in a polyglot society -- The knowledge producers : taming sounds, scripts, and selves -- Part II: World wars. The lexicographers : dictionaries and the making of postwar politics -- The propagandists : public relations, psychological warfare and the making of the influential state -- Part III: The postcolonial state. The language planners : Dewan Bahasa in the invention and constriction of the postcolonial nation-state.
Summary
Through a study of Malaysia, Taming Babel examines how empires and postcolonial nation-states struggle to govern multilingual and polyglot subjects.
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