Description
Book SynopsisThrough 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.
Trade ReviewThis 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 *
Table of ContentsList 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
