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This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, demonstrating how issues of language and power throw light on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state. Based on the author’s research in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia over several decades, Howard draws comparisons over time and space. With due attention to history, the book’s focus is situated in the years following the turn of the millennium, a period in which ideological shifts have affected continuity in official policy delivery even as processes of language shift from Indigenous languages such as Aymara and Quechua, to Spanish, have accelerated. The book combines in-depth description and analysis of state-level activity with ethnographic description of responses to policy on the ground. The author works with concepts of technologies of power and language regimentation to draw out the hegemonic workings of power as exercised through language policy creation at multiple scales. This book will be key reading for students and scholars of critical sociolinguistic ethnography, the history, society and politics of the Andean region, and linguistic anthropology, language policy and planning, and Latin American studies more broadly.

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"""This is an excellent book, rich in insights and socio-linguistic and educational analysis of Andean contexts...and it challenges educationalists to look beyond the formal education sector to the language work of Indigenous youth and new educational spaces for the validation and promotion of Indigenous languages in a digital age."" - Sheila Aikman, University of East Anglia, UK, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education"

""This is an excellent book, rich in insights and socio-linguistic and educational analysis of Andean contexts...and it challenges educationalists to look beyond the formal education sector to the language work of Indigenous youth and new educational spaces for the validation and promotion of Indigenous languages in a digital age."" - Sheila Aikman, University of East Anglia, UK, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

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Rosaleen Howard is Professor Emerita in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University with specialism in Latin American Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology. Editor of Creating Context in Andean Cultures (Oxford University Press, 1997) and co-editor of Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives (Liverpool University Press, 2002). Author of Por los linderos de la lengua: ideologías lingüísticas en los Andes (Institute of Peruvian Studies, Lima, 2007) and Beyond the lexicon of difference: Discursive Performance of Identity in the Andes, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 4 (1): 17–46, 2009.

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