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This book makes an important contribution to the growing debate on
linguistic human rights. By bringing together research on language
rights, language 'survival' and minority language planning in
specific contexts from Africa, Asia, Central and North America and
Europe, it aims to illustrate how current conceptualizations of
language rights can sometimes stand in the way of their successful
realization. The book considers such theoretical and practical
issues as: the constitution of ethnic identities and their links
with language; relations between language, politics and power;
language ecology and revitalization movements; the dominance of
particular models of language, their appropriateness to particular
contexts and their relationship to speakers' own perceptions. It is
targeted towards a wide readership in the fields of sociology,
sociolinguistics and anthropology, language rights law, and
language policy and planning.
This book makes an important contribution to the growing debate on
linguistic human rights. By bringing together research on language
rights, language 'survival' and minority language planning in
specific contexts from Africa, Asia, Central and North America and
Europe, it aims to illustrate how current conceptualizations of
language rights can sometimes stand in the way of their successful
realization. The book considers such theoretical and practical
issues as: the constitution of ethnic identities and their links
with language; relations between language, politics and power;
language ecology and revitalization movements; the dominance of
particular models of language, their appropriateness to particular
contexts and their relationship to speakers' own perceptions. It is
targeted towards a wide readership in the fields of sociology,
sociolinguistics and anthropology, language rights law, and
language policy and planning.
Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
offers a broad and comprehensive analysis of Nicaragua's Caribbean
Coast and the process of autonomy that was initiated in 1987 as
part of a wider conflict resolution process during the years of the
Sandinista revolution and has continued through to the present day.
Over its 30 year period of development, the autonomy process on
Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast can be seen as a crucible for the
autonomous struggles of minority peoples throughout the Latin
American continent. Autonomy on Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast remains
highly contested, being simultaneously characterized by progress,
setbacks, and violent confrontation within a number of fields and
involving a multiplicity of local, national, and global actors.
This experience offers critical lessons for efforts around the
world that seek to resolve long-established and deep-seated ethnic
conflict by attempting to reconcile the need for development,
usually fostered by national governments through neo-extractivist
policies, with the protection of minority rights advocated by
marginalized minorities living within nation states and,
increasingly, by intergovernmental organizations such as the United
Nations and the Organization of American States. This book presents
analyses that reveal the broad implications for the struggle for
autonomy on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, conducted by scholars
with expertise in an array of disciplines including sociology,
globalization theory, anthropology, history, socio-linguistics,
cultural and postcolonial studies, gender studies, and political
science.
This is the first in-depth historical study of feminist activism
against domestic violence in divided Berlin between 1968 and 2002.
Starting in the 1970s, feminists in West and then East Berlin
campaigned against domestic violence as a key issue of women's
inequality. They exposed the harmful gender norms that left women
unprotected and vulnerable to abuse in the home and called for this
to change. Indeed, domestic violence has been one of the issues
most effectively addressed by the women's movement in Germany.
Since the first shelter opened in West Berlin in 1976, women's
shelters have spread throughout the country, and today up to 45,000
women a year turn to emergency housing in Germany, with many more
accessing helplines and crisis centres. Situating domestic violence
activism within a broader history of feminism in post-war Germany,
Feminist Transformations traces the evolution of this movement both
across political division and reunification and from grassroots
campaign to established, professionalised social service. In doing
so, it brings the histories of feminism in East and West Berlin
together for the first time and explores how feminism successfully
changed women's rights in Germany. But it also asks what popular
and political support for domestic violence activism has meant for
feminism and the advancement of women's rights more broadly.
Examining the trajectory of feminism in Germany, Jane Freeland
reveals the limitations of gender equality as advancements in
women's rights were often built on the reassertion of patriarchal
gender roles.
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