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.
By:
Rosaleen Howard
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9781032395975
ISBN 10: 1032395974
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
"Table of contents Preface by Luis Enrique López Acknowledgements List of acronyms List of figures and tables Part I Setting the scene Chapter 1 Introduction A colonial prelude The multilingual states of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia The ethnographic and cross-disciplinary nature of the research Historical roots of Indigenous language policy in the Andes Indigenous social movements in Latin America and scholarly responses Indigenous language policy in the Andes today The view of language guiding my research The structure of the book Chapter 2 Languages, peoples, places Introduction The cultural positioning of the self in the Andes Social classification and naming of peoples and languages Language ideologies, semiosis, and the performance of identities Languages and peoples: a geographical view Language distribution A statistical view Language usage Indigenous peoples and the state Final remarks: Indigenous people, language, and the environment Chapter 3 Language policies, politics, and power Introduction The field of language policy and planning research Language and power Institutional arrangements for the governance of the plural state Legislative instruments for the regimentation of Indigenous languages Paradigms of diversity: shifting discourses of the plural state Language policy and the technologies of power Final remarks Part II Language and power in the education sphere Indigenous education in the Andes: Introduction Chapter 4 The policies and politics of Indigenous education in Ecuador The peak years of IBE in Ecuador: 1988-2006 IBE in the Citizen Revolution years: 2007-2017 IBE teacher training programmes and Indigenous Universities Indigenous education in Ecuador since 2017 Final remarks Chapter 5 The policies and politics of Indigenous education in Peru 1900-1930: Education and the ""civilising"" process 1930-1970: Expanding Westernisation and Hispanisation 1970-1990: Education policy for a multilingual and pluricultural reality 1990-2006: Neo-liberalism meets the politics of identity 2006-2011 An anti-Indigenous turn 2011-2020 Envisioning a multilingual state Managing sociolinguistic diversity in policy and practice Final remarks Chapter 6 The policies and politics of Indigenous education in Bolivia Introduction 20th century up until the 1952 Revolution 1952 to 1982 including periods of military rule 1982 return to democracy until 2005 Evo Morales’s presidency 2006-2019 Final remarks Indigenous education in the Andes: Comparative summary Part III Language in (post-)colonial spaces Chapter 7 Literacy, textualisation and mediatisation Introduction A people without writing? Literacy in the colonial period Ideologies of literacy and symbolic power Graphisation of Andean Indigenous languages Vernacular literacies in present times Andean Indigenous languages in literature, popular culture, and media Final remarks Chapter 8 Translation and interpreting: From past to present Introduction Theoretical considerations and the Andean context Interpreting and translation in historical perspective Translation and interpreting in the post-millennial period Final remarks Chapter 9 Concluding reflections: Paradoxes of diversity Glossary of terms List of legislative instruments References Index"
Rosaleen Howard is Professor Emerita in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University with specialism in Latin American Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology. Editor of Creating Context in Andean Cultures (Oxford University Press, 1997) and co-editor of Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives (Liverpool University Press, 2002). Author of Por los linderos de la lengua: ideologías lingüísticas en los Andes (Institute of Peruvian Studies, Lima, 2007) and Beyond the lexicon of difference: Discursive Performance of Identity in the Andes, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 4 (1): 17–46, 2009.
Reviews for Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power
"""This is an excellent book, rich in insights and socio-linguistic and educational analysis of Andean contexts...and it challenges educationalists to look beyond the formal education sector to the language work of Indigenous youth and new educational spaces for the validation and promotion of Indigenous languages in a digital age."" - Sheila Aikman, University of East Anglia, UK, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education"
