Language and Power in the Modern World

by Karen Atkinson (Editor), Karen Atkinson, David Atkinson

This text explores, in an accessible way, key areas of modern society in which language constitutes power and social relations. These are presented in five multilingualism, identity and ethnicity; language and generation; language and gender; language and the media; and language and organizations.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published May 22, 2003

About the author

Karen Atkinson is a media, installation and public artist, independent curator, collaborator, and has published and guest edited a number of publications.

She has exhibited and curated internationally including South Africa, Australia, Europe, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the USA, and exhibited in the Fifth Havana Biennial in Cuba and the Biennale de Paris in NYC.

She has taught at California Institute of the Arts since 1988. She was a co-founding director of Side Street Projects in 1991, a non profit artist-run organization in Los Angeles which is still up and thriving today. She has been a faculty member at CalArts since 1988. She is a past board president of NAAO, the National Association of Artists' Organizations. She has served on the board of directors of LACPS, Side Street Projects, Installation and serves on many Advisory Boards of arts organizations.

Atkinson currently teaches classes and workshops titled "Getting Your Sh*t Together" and has created software for visual artists of the same title. Her company GYST Ink, is an artist run company for artists. There are tons of free resources for artists located on the site, as well as a blog, newsletter, support services and books.