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The Politics of Incompetence: Learning Language, Relations of Power, and Daily Resistance

By Theresa Austin (Afterword), Neriko Musha Doerr (Contribution by), Cori Jakubiak (Contribution by), Keiko Konoeda (Contribution by), Yuri Kumagai (Contribution by), Neriko Musha Doerr (Editor)
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By Theresa Austin (Afterword), Neriko Musha Doerr (Contribution by), Cori Jakubiak (Contribution by), Keiko Konoeda (Contribution by), Yuri Kumagai (Contribution by), Neriko Musha Doerr (Editor)
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“Incompetence” is not an objective state lacking competence nor a kind of deficiency that needs to be filled. Rather, it is a constructed state that is productive, working in tandem with its opposite, “competence.” Perception of incompetence/competence works as what Michel Foucault (1977) calls a technology of “normalization” that pushes individuals to aspire to follow a shared norm, while hierarchically differentiating individuals according to their proximity to the aspired norm. The notio...

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