This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, demonstrating how issues of language and power throw light on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state.Based on the author's research in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia over several decades, Howard draws comparisons over time and space. With due attention to history, the book's focus is situated in the years following the turn of the millennium, a period in which ideological shifts have affected continuity in official policy delivery even as processes of language shift from Indigenous languages such as Aymara and Quechua, to Spanish, have accelerated. The book combines in-depth description and analysis of state-level activity with ethnographic description of responses to policy on the ground. The author works with concepts of technologies of power and language regimentation to draw out the hegemonic workings of power as exercised through language policy creation at multiple scales.This book will be key reading for students and scholars of critical sociolinguistic ethnography, the history, society and politics of the Andean region, and linguistic anthropology, language policy and planning, and Latin American studies more broadly.
| ISBN: | 9781032395975 |
| Publication date: | 26th August 2024 |
| Author: | Rosaleen Howard |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 294 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism |
| Genres: |
Bilingualism and multilingualism Ethnic studies Social and cultural anthropology Sociolinguistics Historical and comparative linguistics Translation and interpretation Regional / International studies |
This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, demonstrating how issues of language and power throw light on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state.Based on the author's research in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia over several decades, Howard draws comparisons over time and space. With due attention to history, the book's focus is situated in the years following the turn of the millennium, a period in which ideological shifts have affected continuity in official policy delivery even as processes of language shift from Indigenous languages such as Aymara and Quechua, to Spanish, have accelerated. The book combines in-depth description and analysis of state-level activity with ethnographic description of responses to policy on the ground. The author works with concepts of technologies of power and language regimentation to draw out the hegemonic workings of power as exercised through language policy creation at multiple scales.This book will be key reading for students and scholars of critical sociolinguistic ethnography, the history, society and politics of the Andean region, and linguistic anthropology, language policy and planning, and Latin American studies more broadly.
Multilingualism in the Andes features in the following genres: Bilingualism and multilingualism, Ethnic studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, Translation and interpretation, Regional / International studies
Multilingualism in the Andes is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback
Multilingualism in the Andes was written by Rosaleen Howard and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Multilingualism in the Andes has 294 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism series
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