[Linganth] Haley De Korne's book, Language Activism

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on CaMP anthropology blog, Elizabeth McHugh asks Haley de Korne
questions about her book, Language Activism.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: 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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