Enacting and Envisioning Decolonial Forces while Sustaining Indigenous Language, livre ebook

Investigates social power dynamics beyond communicative functions using a decolonial attitudes framework

Through the presentation of visual and textual insights, this book chronicles the experiences of Quechuan bilingual college students, who strive to maintain their ethnolinguistic identity while succeeding in Spanish-centric curricula. The book merges decolonial theory and participatory action research in pursuit of mobilizing Indigenous languages such as Quechua and depicts the ways in which these Andean college students deal with limited opportunities for Quechua-Spanish bilingual practices. It provides an overview of their collective efforts to mobilize Quechua in higher education, efforts which will help all who read it understand the maintenance of the Quechua language beginning at the grassroots level. The author advocates for engaging language researchers in critical collective forces at the core of conditions which promote Quechua in higher education, a collective effort which must reflect decolonial, non-Eurocentric, non-fundamentalist Indigenous concepts in combination with action-oriented cultural wealth for the benefit of minoritized languages and peoples.

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Part 1: Zooming into Context

Chapter 1: Policy versus Practice

Chapter 2: Decolonial Participatory Approach in Sociolinguistic Andean Studies

Chapter 3: Andean Research Partners Within the Research Process

Part 2: Decoloniality and Coloniality within Sociolinguistics Ideological Practices

Chapter 4: Challenging Supay

Chapter 5: Spreading Lazos

Chapter 6: T’ikarinanpaq: Blooming of Quechua

Part 3: Reaffirming Andean Pedagogies Within a Decolonial Stance

Chapter 7: Andean Pedagogies and Participatory Cultural Humility as Decolonial Praxis

Chapter 8: Towards a Cyclical T’ikarinanpaq

Appendices  

References

Index