This book builds a space in which a diversity of voices – Indigenous
teachers, activists and committed academics – are foregrounded in
the processes of Indigenous education with the goal of Indigenous
language reclamation. It decenters state systems of education (e.g.
schooling) and instead considers the efforts of teachers (defined
broadly), community activists and scholars who are developing
initiatives to support Indigenous language practices in, around and
beyond schooling, thereby emphasizing diverse processes of language
reclamation in complex and varied settings. The authors invite the
reader to reconsider language reclamation in the face of climate
change and neocolonial exploitation, offering a source of radical hope
for the future. Central to the book are narratives regarding
community-based collaborations, which subvert the asymmetrical power
relations between academia and educational practitioners and
activists, and call into question the categories constructed by a
top-down approach, as well as the colonial relationships that
linguistic anthropology and linguistics have constructed within the
spaces and people they ‘study’.
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Voices of Community Reclamation in the Americas
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781800418400
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok