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Follow the (Non-)Native: Circulating, Mapping and Territorialising the Esperanto Community,produce this speech community‘s short-lived materiality. The discussion about regular travelling as a precondition to joining occasional large-scale materialisations of this international pop-up community also includes a methodological consideration on how to approach Esperanto speakers ethnographically.

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When Esperantists Meet, or What Makes This Community International?,rs of this international speech community. Beginning with what motivates Esperantists to physically get together, I explore how a specific grammar of national differences is highlighted, examining how this community emerges in constant tension via an internationalism that simultaneously embraces nationalities and rejects nationalisms.

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The Speech Community Against the Language Council: Vocabulary Choice, Authority and Standardisation the language ideology of equality and inclusion upon which Esperanto is based grounds vocabulary development, using Esperanto as a starting point for a theoretical reflection on language authority, variation and error.

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On Moving and Standing Still: The Social Movement from the Standpoint of an Esperanto Association,nges the theoretical perception that posits the present as a field of action, since here the present appears deprived of its transformative potential, as lived by activists who regard the language’s apparent stability as a sign of stagnation of their cause.

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We Have Never Been Universal: How Speaking a Language Becomes a Prefigurative Practice,nts, I argue that the Esperanto movement is only sustainable insofar as the language does not become a de facto world language. Esperanto’s wide adoption would turn it into another hegemonic language, and such ‘success’ would, ultimately, mean the failure of the language.

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Coming to a Close, or How Not to Put an End to the Conversation,tists produce knowledge, make friends, travel and make information circulate through alternative communication. Ultimately, in learning and continuously using the language, they show that they have something to say and that they do not want this conversation to come to an end.

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sely-established and geographically dispersed communities gaThis book explores how Esperanto – often regarded as a future-oriented utopian project that ended up confined to the past – persists in the present. Constructed in the late nineteenth century to promote global linguistic understanding, this

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