Title: Indigenous Language Education in Critical Times
Subtitle: Voices of Community Reclamation in the Americas
Series Title: Language, Education and Diversity
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800418387

Editor(s): Julieta Briseño-Roa, Paulina Griñó, Vanessa Anthony-Stevens and José Antonio Flores Farfán

Pbk ISBN 9781800418387 £29.95 / US$39.95 / €34.95
Hbk ISBN 9781800418394 £99.95 / US$129.95 / €119.95
EPUB ISBN 9781800418417 £10.00 / US$15.00 / €12.00
PDF ISBN 9781800418400 £10.00 / US$15.00 / €12.00

Abstract:

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’.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics