LEADER 02476nam 2200385 450 001 9910512194303321 005 20230517075803.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501511561 035 $a(CKB)5590000000631040 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000631040 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000631040 100 $a20230517d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLanguage Activism $eImaginaries and Strategies of Minority Language Equality /$fHaley De Korne 210 1$aBerlin :$cDe Gruyter Mouton,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aContributions to the sociology of language ;$vVolume 114 311 $a1-5015-1142-4 330 $aWhile top-down policies and declarations have yet to establish equal status and opportunities for speakers of all languages in practice, activists and advocates at local levels are playing an increasingly significant role in the creation of new social imaginaries and practices in multilingual contexts. This volume describes how social actors across multiple domains contribute to the elusive goal of linguistic equality or justice through their language activism practices. Through an ethnographic account of Indigenous Isthmus Zapotec language activism in Oaxaca, Mexico, this study illuminates the (sometimes conflicting) imaginaries of what positive social change is and how it should be achieved, and the repertoire of strategies through which these imaginaries are being pursued. Ethnographic and action research conducted from 2013-2018 in the multilingual Isthmus of Tehuantepec brings to light the experiences of educators, students, writers, scholars and diverse cultural activists whose aspirations and strategies of social change are significant in shaping the future language ecology. Their repertoire of strategies may inform and encourage language activists, scholars, and educators working for change in other contexts of linguistic diversity and inequality. 410 0$aContributions to the sociology of language ;$vVolume 114. 517 $aLanguage Activism 606 $aCultural competence 615 0$aCultural competence. 676 $a303.482 700 $aDe Korne$b Haley$01223445 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910512194303321 996 $aLanguage Activism$92838220 997 $aUNINA