Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet

"Focuses on how Tibet's minority languages are vulnerable to both the Chinese state's aggressive assimilatory policies and a transnational project that resists this assimilation by promoting Tibetan ethnic survival through linguistic homogenization"-

Sommario

Introduction: Language Oppression

Part 1: Erasure

1. Before Language Oppression: Languages and Sovereign Power

2. Language Oppression and the State: Biopolitics and State Racism in the People's Republic of China

Part 2: Supression

3. Language Oppression and Resistance: Race War andthe Violence of Self-Defense

4. Language Oppression and Global Power Circuits

Part 3: Elimination

5. The Slow Violence of State-Building

6. Banal Violence and Biosovereign Power

Conclusion: Resisting Languag

Epilogue

Info autore

Gerald Roche

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gerald Roche
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9781501777776
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-7777-6
• Pagine: 264
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata