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This book brings together leading experts and younger scholars across the humanities and social sciences to investigate what global language justice looks like in a time of climate crisis.
Sommario
Poems and Artworks
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Lifeworld of Languages: Rethinking Logos, Oikos, and Techné, by Lydia H. Liu and Anupama Rao
1. Equality or Diversity: Language, Rights, Justice, by L. Maria Bo
2. Global Language Justice Inside the Doughnut: A Planetary Perspective, by Suzanne Romaine
3. The Asylum Trial: Translating Justice at the Borders of Europe, by Tommaso Manfredini
4. Challenging “Extinction” Through Modern Miami Language Practices, by Wesley Y. Leonard
5. Indigenous Languages Between Erasure and Disinvention, by Daniel Kaufman and Ross Perlin
6. Linguistic Democracy and the Algerian Hirak, by Madeleine Dobie
7. Digital Vitality for Linguistic Diversity: The Script Encoding Initiative, by Deborah Anderson
8. Language Justice in the Digital Sphere, by Isabelle a. Zaugg
9. Exit: An Interview, by Laura Kurgan and Charlotte A. Silverman
Contributors
Index
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Lydia H. Liu is Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where she teaches in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Anupama Rao is professor of history at Barnard College and professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.
Charlotte A. Silverman is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.
Riassunto
This book brings together leading experts and younger scholars across the humanities and social sciences to investigate what global language justice looks like in a time of climate crisis.
