Enacting and Envisioning Decolonial Forces while Sustaining Indigenous Language: Bilingual College Students in the Andes

Author: Yuliana Hevelyn Kenfield

Format:
Ebook(PDF)
Related Formats:
Hardback, Ebook(EPUB)
ISBN:
9781788929714
Published:
Publisher:
Multilingual Matters
Number of pages:
224
Dimensions:
Availability:
Available
Price: £20.00
Price: $35.00
Price: €25.00

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.

This important contribution to the fields of education and sociolinguistics exemplifies how decolonial practices start with the researcher's cultural humility by honoring the community's views and wisdom, and not the individual's. It paves the way for us to learn more about Quechua language issues and possibilities from Quechua researchers.

Carlos LópezLeiva, University of New Mexico, USA

This beautiful book illuminates the experiences of bilingual Indigenous college students in the Andes in a multi-layered, richly theorized, genre-defying, border-crossing, and deeply decolonizing way. The author weaves her own experiences with those of youth in a photo-voice research project as she brings stories of resistance and persistence to life.

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Though a decolonial lens, Kenfield provides a dynamic chronicle of Andean college students in Cusco who negotiate pedagogical spaces that interrogate sociolinguistic notions and ideological stances in an effort to give Quechua an equal footing with Spanish. Photovoice promises to be a powerful way to explore historical power imbalances.

Gilberto P. Lara, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Yuliana Hevelyn Kenfield is a Quechua scholar from Cusco, currently in the Department of Education and Leadership at Western Oregon University, USA. Her research interests include participatory educational research and the intersection of race, language, and education in sociolinguistic practices of bilingual communities. She is the editor of the journal Tinkuy and part of the collective Ayllu Multilingue from South America.

List of Figures
List of Tables
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

Postgraduate, Research / Professional
« Back