The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet - Gerald Roche

The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet

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Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2024
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7778-3 (ISBN)
36,15 inkl. MwSt
In The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, Gerald Roche sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of the world's languages disappear this century.


Roche explores the erosion of linguistic diversity through a study of a community on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau in the People's Republic of China. Manegacha is but one of the sixty minority languages in Tibet and is spoken by about 8,000 people who are otherwise mostly indistinguishable from the Tibetan communities surrounding them. Recently, many in these communities have switched to speaking Tibetan, and Manegacha faces an uncertain future.


The author uses the Manegacha case to show how linguistic diversity across Tibet is collapsing under assimilatory state policies. He looks at how global advocacy networks inadequately acknowledge this issue, highlighting the complex politics of language in an inter-connected world. The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet broadens our understanding of Tibet and China, the crisis of global linguistic diversity, and the radical changes needed to address this crisis.

Gerald Roche is Associate Professor in Politics in the Department of Politics, Media, and Philosophy at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. His work focuses on power, the state, colonialism, and racism.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 8 Halftones, black and white; 3 Maps
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 907 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-5017-7778-5 / 1501777785
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-7778-3 / 9781501777783
Zustand Neuware
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