{"product_id":"the-handbook-of-linguistic-human-rights-isbn-9781119753841","title":"The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking new work that sheds light on case studies of linguistic human rights around the world, raising much-needed awareness of the struggles of many peoples and communities\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first book of its kind, the \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Linguistic Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e presents a diverse range of theoretically grounded studies of linguistic human rights, exemplifying what linguistic justice is and how it might be achieved. Through explorations of ways in which linguistic human rights are understood in both national and international contexts, this innovative volume demonstrates how linguistic human rights are supported or violated on all continents, with a particular focus on the marginalized languages of minorities and Indigenous peoples, in industrialized countries and the Global South.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganized into five parts, this volume first presents approaches to linguistic human rights in international and national law, political theory, sociology, economics, history, education, and critical theory. Subsequent sections address how international standards are promoted or impeded and cross-cutting issues, including translation and interpreting, endangered languages and the internet, the impact of global English, language testing, disaster situations, historical amnesia, and more. This essential reference work: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores approaches to linguistic human rights in countries of great demographic diversity and conflict\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers cases of linguistic human rights in the Americas, China, Europe, North Africa, India, Nepal and New Zealand, including international minorities, such as the Kurds and the Roma, and the Deaf worldwide.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrates how education worldwide has often blocked off minority languages by not offering mother-tongue medium education\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents and assesses conventions, declarations, and recommendations that recognize the rights of Indigenous peoples and minorities.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a selection of short texts that present additional existential evidence of linguistic human rights.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdited by two renowned leaders in the field, the \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Linguistic Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students of language and law, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, language policy, language education, indigenous studies, language rights, human rights, and globalization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Establishing Linguistic Human Rights 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Approaches to Linguistic Human Rights 23\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Linguistic Human Rights in International Law 25\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Dunbar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Sociolinguistic and Political Theory Perspectives on Language Rights 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen May\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Linguistic and Epistemic Erasure in Africa: Coloniality, Linguistic Human Rights and Decoloniality 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKathleen Heugh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Struggling to Access Health Information in the Midst of a Pandemic: Linguistic Human Rights in Indonesia 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHywel Coleman and David Fero\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Economic and Policy Issues in the Promotion of Linguistic Human Rights 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrançois Grin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Preventing the Implementation of Linguistic Human Rights in Education 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTove Skutnabb-Kangas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Debating Linguistic Human Rights in Militarised Myanmar: Political Agitation and Policy Deliberation 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph Lo Bianco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Language Policy Implications of ‘Global’ English for Linguistic Human Rights 143\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Phillipson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 From Neoliberal to Decolonial Language Rights and Reparative Linguistic Justice 159\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAhmed Kabel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II International Standards for Linguistic Human Rights 175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Some Shortcomings of Linguistic Rights 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGudmundur Alfredsson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Linguistic Human Rights Challenges in the Work of the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues 183\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFernand de Varennes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Time, Politics, and Linguistic Human Rights: \u003ci\u003eBringing Words to our Songs \u003c\/i\u003e195\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElsa Stamatopoulou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Linguistic Human Rights Challenges in the Work of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 211\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOle Henrik Magga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Linguistic Human Rights in Relation to the Administration of Justice: A European Perspective 227\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKristin Henrard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Using the UN Human Rights Treaty System to Defend LHRs 235\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrea Bear Nicholas, Lorena Fontaine, Amos Key, Jr and Karihwakéron Tim Thompson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The Bangkok Statement on Language and Inclusion: A Rose by Any Other Name? 251\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirk R. Person\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Linguistic Human Rights in the Work of the World Federation of the Deaf 267\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictoria Manning, Joseph J. Murray and Alexandre Bloxs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Case Studies: Linguistic Human Rights Violated 281\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Resistance to the Violations of Linguistic Human Rights in Nunavut, Canada 283\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAluki Kotierk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Linguicide and Historicide 295\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrea Bear Nicholas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Linguistic Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples in the USA 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJon Reyhner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Linguistic Human Rights of Minorities in China 319\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinglang Zhou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Linguistic Human Rights in Tibet: Advocacy and Denial 327\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGerald Roche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Linguistic, Cultural, and Ethnic Genocide of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China 341\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbduweli Ayup, Shungqar Tékin and Erkin Sidick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Linguistic Human Rights in Kurdistan 357\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJaffer Sheyholislami\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 The Linguistic Human Rights Plight of Hungarians in Ukraine 373\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIstván Csernicskó and Miklós Kontra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 A Tale of Two Springs and an Impending Winter: Linguistic Human Rights and the Politics of Dignity in North Africa 383\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAhmed Kabel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 English Linguistic Imperialism and Mother Tongue Medium Education in Ethiopia 393\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYirga G. Woldeyes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Judicial Interpretations of the Law to Safeguard Linguistic Minorities in India 405\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eE. Annamalai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Linguistic Human Rights and Higher Education: Reflections from India 413\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShivani Nag\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Language Matters for Development, Peace, and Reconciliation: The Case for Change in Haiti 427\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDominique Dupuy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Romani Emancipation and Linguistic Human Rights 431\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDieter W. Halwachs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Case Studies: Implementing Linguistic Human Rights 443\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Finnish and Swedish as National Languages of Finland: A Linguistic Human Rights Success Story – Why and How? 445\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarkku Suksi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 When Implementation of Linguistic Human Rights Does Not Match Legislation – The Case of Sweden 453\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJarmo Lainio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Court Challenges and Linguistic Human Rights: The Canadian Case 469\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePierre Foucher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Linguistic Human Rights of Indigenous Sámi in the Finnish Education System 477\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUlla Aikio-Puoskari \/ Gáppe Piera Jovnna Ulla\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 A Time of Promise in Latin America: Linguistic Human Rights from within Language Communities 493\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGabriela Pérez Báez and Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Pueblo Revitalisation in Education in Southwest USA 507 \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristine Sims\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Language Endangerment and Linguistic Human Rights of a Cross-Border Minority: Karelian in Russia and Finland 517\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnneli Sarhimaa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Linguistic Human Rights in Russia 533\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanne Saarikivi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Challenges in the Acknowledgement and Implementation of Linguistic Human Rights in Nepal 551\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLava Deo Awasthi, Mark Turin, and Yogendra Prasad Yadava\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Linguistic Human Rights in Education in India: Odisha’s Partial Success Story 561\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAjit Mohanty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Language Rights as Human Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand 577\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Benton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 The History of Linguistic Human Rights at Gallaudet University 587\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTawny Holmes Hlibok and Laurene E. Simms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Cross-cutting Issues in Linguistic Human Rights 595\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 The Role of Interpreting and Translation in Promoting Linguistic Human Rights 597\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGabriel González Núñez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Language Testing\/Assessment and Linguistic Human Rights 605\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElana Shohamy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 Promoting Linguistic Human Rights Through Language Documentation 613\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eM. Paul Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 Linguistic Human Rights, Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, and the Rise of the Multilingual Internet 623\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGregory D.S. Anderson and Anna L. Daigneault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 Disaster Linguicism as Deprivation of the Victims’ Linguistic Human Rights 639\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShinya Uekusa and Steve Matthewman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50 Linguistic Human Rights and the Imperative to Remember in the Philippines 649\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuanni Tupas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51 Existential Evidence: A Compilation 657\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52 Afterword: Pursuing Linguistic Human Rights 679\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 689\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Compelling testament to the urgency of ensuring linguistic human rights worldwide and to Skutnabb-Kangas’ and Phillipson’s vision and tenacity in illuminating the field for half a century.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy H. Hornberger\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor Emerita, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Our ability to communicate through language is central to our constitution, evolution, and identity as humans. It is therefore not surprising that this core characteristic of who we are has always been contested as social groups vie for advantage and superiority. The \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Linguistic Human Rights \u003c\/i\u003ebrilliantly brings these realities into the 21st century, combining academic analysis, personal accounts, and evidence-based directions for change. The authors have created a repository of information and inspiration that will fuel language activism for many years to come.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Cummins\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor, The University of Toronto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This impressive and engaging edited Handbook is not only global in coverage and truly comprehensive in scope, it also introduces and formulates the concept \u003ci\u003elinguistic human rights\u003c\/i\u003e through state-of-the-art theoretical, legal and conceptual discussions. National and thematic examples of violations or good implementation are rounded out by evidence statements on some of humanity’s most discerning linguistic identity violations.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTove H. Malloy\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of European Studies, Europa-Universität Flensburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An extraordinarily multifaceted handbook, covering theory and implementation, opportunities and obstacles, global and local perspectives, voices of academics and practitioners. It demonstrates why paying due attention to the – still too often neglected – linguistic dimension of human rights is so crucial for a world in which no one will be left behind.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGoro Christoph Kimura\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor, Sophia University, Tokyo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The handbook is exceptionally valuable for understanding and appreciating the concept of linguistic human rights and their significance for social and linguistic justice. It is well organised, illuminating and highly interesting in its entirety. It can therefore be warmly recommended not only to lawyers and students of law, but to all those interested in the protection of linguistic rights of all people and some form of linguistic justice.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarijana Javornik Èubriæ\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor, Zagreb University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[In sum], this handbook…presents a wealth of perspectives and case studies of LHRs…What unites them is the idea that, in addition to serving as the most important means of communication, languages and linguistic diversity are a human heritage deserving of legal protection.” - \u003ci\u003eJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development\u003c\/i\u003e, July, 1–3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTove Skutnabb-Kangas (1940-2023) \u003c\/b\u003ewas Adjunct Professor Emerita at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her research focused on linguistic human rights, linguistic genocide, mother-tongue-based multilingual education, the subtractive spread of English, revitalization of Indigenous languages, and the relationship between biodiversity and linguistic and cultural diversity. She was the (co-)author or editor of some 50 books and over 400 scientific articles. She was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax Prize in 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Phillipson\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His research focuses on the role of English worldwide, language policy, linguistic justice, language pedagogy, and multilingualism. He co-edited the four-volume \u003ci\u003eLanguage Rights \u003c\/i\u003ewith Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. His most influential books are \u003ci\u003eLinguistic Imperialism, Linguistic Imperialism Continued, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e English-only Europe? Challenging Language Policy\u003c\/i\u003e. He was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax Prize in 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe first book of its kind, \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e presents a diverse range of theoretically grounded studies of linguistic human rights, exemplifying what linguistic justice is and how it might be achieved. Through explorations of ways in which linguistic human rights are understood in both national and international contexts, this innovative volume demonstrates how linguistic human rights are supported or violated on all continents, with a particular focus on the marginalized languages of minorities and Indigenous peoples, in industrialized countries and the Global South.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganized into five parts, this volume first presents approaches to linguistic human rights in international and national law, political theory, sociology, economics, history, education, and critical theory. Subsequent sections address how international standards are promoted or impeded and cross-cutting issues, including translation and interpreting, endangered languages and the internet, the impact of global English, language testing, disaster situations, historical amnesia, and more. This essential reference work explores approaches to linguistic human rights in countries of great demographic diversity and conflict through case studies from the Americas, China, Europe, North Africa, India, Nepal and New Zealand, including international minorities, such as the Kurds and the Roma, and the Deaf worldwide. In a critical contribution to scholarship in this area, this volume presents and assesses conventions, declarations, and recommendations that recognize the rights of Indigenous peoples and minorities.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited by two renowned field leaders, \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students of language and law, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, language policy, language education, indigenous studies, language rights, human rights, and globalization.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Compelling testament to the urgency of ensuring linguistic human rights worldwide and to Skutnabb-Kangas’ and Phillipson’s vision and tenacity in illuminating the field for half a century.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy H. Hornberger\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor Emerita, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Our ability to communicate through language is central to our constitution, evolution, and identity as humans. It is therefore not surprising that this core characteristic of who we are has always been contested as social groups vie for advantage and superiority. The \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Linguistic Human Rights \u003c\/i\u003ebrilliantly brings these realities into the 21st century, combining academic analysis, personal accounts, and evidence-based directions for change. The authors have created a repository of information and inspiration that will fuel language activism for many years to come.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim Cummins\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor, The University of Toronto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This impressive and engaging edited Handbook is not only global in coverage and truly comprehensive in scope, it also introduces and formulates the concept \u003ci\u003elinguistic human rights\u003c\/i\u003e through state-of-the-art theoretical, legal and conceptual discussions. National and thematic examples of violations or good implementation are rounded out by evidence statements on some of humanity’s most discerning linguistic identity violations.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTove H. 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