[Edling] Book - Now Open Access - Language Activism | Imaginaries and Strategies of Minority Language Equality

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

**Now Available in Open Access**

Title: Language Activism - Imaginaries and Strategies of Minority Language
Equality
Author: Haley De Korne
Series: Volume 114 in the series Contributions to the Sociology of Language
[CSL]
ISBN: 9781501511561
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501511561
Published: August 2, 2021
Book URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501511561/html?lang=en

About this book

Fishman Award <https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/fishmanaward> winner
2018

While top-down policies and declarations have yet to establish equal status
and opportunities for speakers of all languages in practice, activists and
advocates at local levels are playing an increasingly significant role in
the creation of new social imaginaries and practices in multilingual
contexts. This volume describes how social actors across multiple domains
contribute to the elusive goal of linguistic equality or justice through
their language activism practices. Through an ethnographic account of
Indigenous Isthmus Zapotec language activism in Oaxaca, Mexico, this study
illuminates the (sometimes conflicting) imaginaries of what positive social
change is and how it should be achieved, and the repertoire of strategies
through which these imaginaries are being pursued. Ethnographic and action
research conducted from 2013-2018 in the multilingual Isthmus of
Tehuantepec brings to light the experiences of educators, students,
writers, scholars and diverse cultural activists whose aspirations and
strategies of social change are significant in shaping the future language
ecology. Their repertoire of strategies may inform and encourage language
activists, scholars, and educators working for change in other contexts of
linguistic diversity and inequality.
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