Handbook of linguistic human rights. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson.
• Editors: Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove; Phillipson, Robert
• Contents: Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi Notes on Contributors xv 1 Introduction: Establishing Linguistic Human Rights 1; Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson Part I Approaches to Linguistic Human Rights 23 2 Linguistic Human Rights in International Law 25; Robert Dunbar 3 Sociolinguistic and Political Theory Perspectives on Language Rights 39; Stephen May 4 Linguistic and Epistemic Erasure in Africa: Coloniality, Linguistic Human Rights and Decoloniality 55; Kathleen Heugh 5 Struggling to Access Health Information in the Midst of a Pandemic: Linguistic Human Rights in Indonesia 71; Hywel Coleman and David Fero 6 Economic and Policy Issues in the Promotion of Linguistic Human Rights 95; François Grin 7 Preventing the Implementation of Linguistic Human Rights in Education 109; Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 8 Debating Linguistic Human Rights in Militarised Myanmar: Political Agitation and Policy Deliberation 127; Joseph Lo Bianco 9 Language Policy Implications of ‘Global’ English for Linguistic Human Rights 143; Robert Phillipson 10 From Neoliberal to Decolonial Language Rights and Reparative Linguistic Justice 159; Ahmed Kabel Part II International Standards for Linguistic Human Rights 175 11 Some Shortcomings of Linguistic Rights 177<br />Gudmundur Alfredsson 12 Linguistic Human Rights Challenges in the Work of the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues 183; Fernand de Varennes 13 Time, Politics, and Linguistic Human Rights: Bringing Words to our Songs 195; Elsa Stamatopoulou 14 Linguistic Human Rights Challenges in the Work of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 211; Ole Henrik Magga 15 Linguistic Human Rights in Relation to the Administration of Justice: A European Perspective 227; Kristin Henrard 16 Using the UN Human Rights Treaty System to Defend LHRs 235; Andrea Bear Nicholas, Lorena Fontaine, Amos Key, Jr and Karihwakéron Tim Thompson 17 The Bangkok Statement on Language and Inclusion: A Rose by Any Other Name? 251; Kirk R. Person 18 Linguistic Human Rights in the Work of the World Federation of the Deaf 267; Victoria Manning, Joseph J. Murray and Alexandre Bloxs Part III Case Studies: Linguistic Human Rights Violated 281 19 Resistance to the Violations of Linguistic Human Rights in Nunavut, Canada 283; Aluki Kotierk 20 Linguicide and Historicide 295; Andrea Bear Nicholas 21 Linguistic Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples in the USA 303; Jon Reyhner 22 Linguistic Human Rights of Minorities in China 319; Minglang Zhou 23 Linguistic Human Rights in Tibet: Advocacy and Denial 327; Gerald Roche 24 Linguistic, Cultural, and Ethnic Genocide of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China 341; Abduweli Ayup, Shungqar Tékin and Erkin Sidick 25 Linguistic Human Rights in Kurdistan 357; Jaffer Sheyholislami 26 The Linguistic Human Rights Plight of Hungarians in Ukraine 373; István Csernicskó and Miklós Kontra 27 A Tale of Two Springs and an Impending Winter: Linguistic Human Rights and the Politics of Dignity in North Africa 383; Ahmed Kabel 28 English Linguistic Imperialism and Mother Tongue Medium Education in Ethiopia 393; Yirga G. Woldeyes 29 Judicial Interpretations of the Law to Safeguard Linguistic Minorities in India 405; E. Annamalai 30 Linguistic Human Rights and Higher Education: Reflections from India 413; Shivani Nag 31 Language Matters for Development, Peace, and Reconciliation: The Case for Change in Haiti 427; Dominique Dupuy 32 Romani Emancipation and Linguistic Human Rights 431; Dieter W. Halwachs Part IV Case Studies: Implementing Linguistic Human Rights 443 33 Finnish and Swedish as National Languages of Finland: A Linguistic Human Rights Success Story – Why and How? 445; Markku Suksi 34 When Implementation of Linguistic Human Rights Does Not Match Legislation – The Case of Sweden 453; Jarmo Lainio 35 Court Challenges and Linguistic Human Rights: The Canadian Case 469; Pierre Foucher 36 Linguistic Human Rights of Indigenous Sámi in the Finnish Education System 477; Ulla Aikio-Puoskari / Gáppe Piera Jovnna Ulla 37 A Time of Promise in Latin America: Linguistic Human Rights from within Language Communities 493; Gabriela Pérez Báez and Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil 38 Pueblo Revitalisation in Education in Southwest USA 507; Christine Sims 39 Language Endangerment and Linguistic Human Rights of a Cross-Border Minority: Karelian in Russia and Finland 517; Anneli Sarhimaa 40 Linguistic Human Rights in Russia 533; Janne Saarikivi 41 Challenges in the Acknowledgement and Implementation of Linguistic Human Rights in Nepal 551; Lava Deo Awasthi, Mark Turin, and Yogendra Prasad Yadava 42 Linguistic Human Rights in Education in India: Odisha’s Partial Success Story 561; Ajit Mohanty 43 Language Rights as Human Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand 577; Richard Benton 44 The History of Linguistic Human Rights at Gallaudet University 587; Tawny Holmes Hlibok and Laurene E. Simms Part V Cross-cutting Issues in Linguistic Human Rights 595 45 The Role of Interpreting and Translation in Promoting Linguistic Human Rights 597; Gabriel González Núñez 46 Language Testing/Assessment and Linguistic Human Rights 605; Elana Shohamy 47 Promoting Linguistic Human Rights Through Language Documentation 613; M. Paul Lewis 48 Linguistic Human Rights, Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, and the Rise of the Multilingual Internet 623; Gregory D.S. Anderson and Anna L. Daigneault 49 Disaster Linguicism as Deprivation of the Victims’ Linguistic Human Rights 639; Shinya Uekusa and Steve Matthewman 50 Linguistic Human Rights and the Imperative to Remember in the Philippines 649; Ruanni Tupas 51 Existential Evidence: A Compilation 657; Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson 52 Afterword: Pursuing Linguistic Human Rights 679; Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Index 689
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Chichester : Wiley Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (816 pages)
• Subjects: 341.485; Linguistic rights
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119753902
• Related ISBNs: 9781119753841
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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