Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights

Acknowledgements ix

Abbreviations xi

Notes on Contributors xv

1 Introduction: Establishing Linguistic Human Rights 1
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson

Part I Approaches to Linguistic Human Rights 23

2 Linguistic Human Rights in International Law 25
Robert Dunbar

3 Sociolinguistic and Political Theory Perspectives on Language Rights 39
Stephen May

4 Linguistic and Epistemic Erasure in Africa: Coloniality, Linguistic Human Rights and Decoloniality 55
Kathleen Heugh

5 Struggling to Access Health Information in the Midst of a Pandemic: Linguistic Human Rights in Indonesia 71
Hywel Coleman and David Fero

6 Economic and Policy Issues in the Promotion of Linguistic Human Rights 95
Francois Grin

7 Preventing the Implementation of Linguistic Human Rights in Education 109
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

8 Debating Linguistic Human Rights in Militarised Myanmar: Political Agitation and Policy Deliberation 127
Joseph Lo Bianco

9 Language Policy Implications of 'Global' English for Linguistic Human Rights 143
Robert Phillipson

10 From Neoliberal to Decolonial Language Rights and Reparative Linguistic Justice 159
Ahmed Kabel

Part II International Standards for Linguistic Human Rights 175

11 Some Shortcomings of Linguistic Rights 177
Gudmundur Alfredsson

12 Linguistic Human Rights Challenges in the Work of the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues 183
Fernand de Varennes

13 Time, Politics, and Linguistic Human Rights: Bringing Words to our Songs 195
Elsa Stamatopoulou

14 Linguistic Human Rights Challenges in the Work of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 211
Ole Henrik Magga

15 Linguistic Human Rights in Relation to the Administration of Justice: A European Perspective 227
Kristin Henrard

16 Using the UN Human Rights Treaty System to Defend LHRs 235
Andrea Bear Nicholas, Lorena Fontaine, Amos Key, Jr and Karihwakeron Tim Thompson

17 The Bangkok Statement on Language and Inclusion: A Rose by Any Other Name? 251
Kirk R. Person

18 Linguistic Human Rights in the Work of the World Federation of the Deaf 267
Victoria Manning, Joseph J. Murray and Alexandre Bloxs

Part III Case Studies: Linguistic Human Rights Violated 281

19 Resistance to the Violations of Linguistic Human Rights in Nunavut, Canada 283
Aluki Kotierk

20 Linguicide and Historicide 295
Andrea Bear Nicholas

21 Linguistic Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples in the USA 303
Jon Reyhner

22 Linguistic Human Rights of Minorities in China 319
Minglang Zhou

23 Linguistic Human Rights in Tibet: Advocacy and Denial 327
Gerald Roche

24 Linguistic, Cultural, and Ethnic Genocide of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China 341
Abduweli Ayup, Shungqar Tekin and Erkin Sidick

25 Linguistic Human Rights in Kurdistan 357
Jaffer Sheyholislami

26 The Linguistic Human Rights Plight of Hungarians in Ukraine 373
Istvan Csernicsko and Miklos Kontra

27 A Tale of Two Springs and an Impending Winter: Linguistic Human Rights and the Politics of Dignity in North Africa 383
Ahmed Kabel

28 English Linguistic Imperialism and Mother Tongue Medium Education in Ethiopia 393
Yirga G. Woldeyes

29 Judicial Interpretations of the Law to Safeguard Linguistic Minorities in India 405
E. Annamalai

30 Linguistic Human Rights and Higher Education: Reflections from India 413
Shivani Nag

31 Language Matters for Development, Peace, and Reconciliation: The Case for Change in Haiti 427
Dominique Dupuy

32 Romani Emancipation and Linguistic Human Rights 431
Dieter W. Halwachs

Part IV Case Studies: Implementing Linguistic Human Rights 443

33 Finnish and Swedish as National Languages of Finland: A Linguistic Human Rights Success Story - Why and How? 445
Markku Suksi

34 When Implementation of Linguistic Human Rights Does Not Match Legislation - The Case of Sweden 453
Jarmo Lainio

35 Court Challenges and Linguistic Human Rights: The Canadian Case 469
Pierre Foucher

36 Linguistic Human Rights of Indigenous Sami in the Finnish Education System 477
Ulla Aikio-Puoskari / Gappe Piera Jovnna Ulla

37 A Time of Promise in Latin America: Linguistic Human Rights from within Language Communities 493
Gabriela Perez Baez and Yasnaya Elena Aguilar Gil

38 Pueblo Revitalisation in Education in Southwest USA 507
Christine Sims

39 Language Endangerment and Linguistic Human Rights of a Cross-Border Minority: Karelian in Russia and Finland 517
Anneli Sarhimaa

40 Linguistic Human Rights in Russia 533
Janne Saarikivi

41 Challenges in the Acknowledgement and Implementation of Linguistic Human Rights in Nepal 551
Lava Deo Awasthi, Mark Turin, and Yogendra Prasad Yadava

42 Linguistic Human Rights in Education in India: Odisha's Partial Success Story 561
Ajit Mohanty

43 Language Rights as Human Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand 577
Richard Benton

44 The History of Linguistic Human Rights at Gallaudet University 587
Tawny Holmes Hlibok and Laurene E. Simms

Part V Cross-cutting Issues in Linguistic Human Rights 595

45 The Role of Interpreting and Translation in Promoting Linguistic Human Rights 597
Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez

46 Language Testing/Assessment and Linguistic Human Rights 605
Elana Shohamy

47 Promoting Linguistic Human Rights Through Language Documentation 613
M. Paul Lewis

48 Linguistic Human Rights, Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, and the Rise of the Multilingual Internet 623
Gregory D.S. Anderson and Anna L. Daigneault

49 Disaster Linguicism as Deprivation of the Victims' Linguistic Human Rights 639
Shinya Uekusa and Steve Matthewman

50 Linguistic Human Rights and the Imperative to Remember in the Philippines 649
Ruanni Tupas

51 Existential Evidence: A Compilation 657
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson

52 Afterword: Pursuing Linguistic Human Rights 679
Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Index 689

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