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

[David Balosa via Edling]

Thank you Francis for sharing this valuable book and tool in deconstructing
discriminatory and anti-intercultural language policy in the age of
globalization!

David Balosa

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 9:58 AM Francis M. Hult via Edling <
edling at lists.mail.umbc.edu> wrote:

> **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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David M. Balosa, Ph.D.
Language, Literacy, & Culture
Interculturality GSO President 2012-2013
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