Resumen de The Conservative Restoration and Neoliberal Defenses of Bilingual Education

John E. Petrovic

• The paper presents a critique of a popular orientation to language planning. The resource orientation promotes language diversity as an important part of economic development and national defense. In other words, languages are resources. It is argued here that language pluralists who try to “sell” language diversity and bilingual education by this language-as-resource strategy ultimately help to preserve the inequitable linguistic status quo. This is because the language of “resource” upholds the language of neoliberalism. Language pluralists may be trying to use neoliberalism to combat neoconservativism. This is a strategic mistake since both are part and parcel of the conservative restoration and this strategy will ultimately backfire.