Youth, Quechua and neoliberalism in contemporary Perú

IF 1.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Virginia Zavala
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Abstract Framed within a critical and ethnographic approach to language policy, my study addresses the phenomenon of language commodification and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in contemporary Perú. Specifically, I address a project of Quechua teaching in the city of Lima called Quechua para Todos, or Quechua for All, promoted by young Quechua activists developing interventions to change historically established imaginaries. Taking this project as a starting point, I analyze what is behind the extremely high demand these Quechua courses are having among youth in the capital city, where Quechua has been historically silenced. My argument is that a significant group of the young students from the courses have begun to integrate the Quechua language to the figure of the entrepreneurial subject for whom both personal and national branding is central. While speaking Quechua has historically indexed ‘indianness’ linked to backwardness, rurality, ancestrality and ignorance, it is now being associated with other linguistic and non-linguistic signs (such as being a professional and knowing English) to enregister a multicultural citizenship within a context of neoliberal economic growth and state policies of cultural branding. Although the demand to study Quechua in Lima is shifting the meanings and values of Quechua, at least within a domain of speakers, it may also be erasing ongoing processes of racialization of indigenous peoples in Peruvian society and fundamental gaps in access to education and economic resources.
当代青年、克丘亚人和新自由主义Perú
摘要在语言政策的批判性和民族志方法的框架内,我的研究探讨了语言商品化现象和当代秘鲁新自由主义主观主义的建构。具体来说,我在利马市谈到了一个名为Quechua para Todos或Quechua for All的Quechua教学项目,该项目由年轻的奎丘亚活动家推动,他们正在制定干预措施,以改变历史上既定的想象。以这个项目为起点,我分析了这些奎丘亚课程在首都青年中的极高需求背后的原因,奎丘亚在历史上一直处于沉默状态。我的论点是,这些课程中的一大批年轻学生已经开始将克丘亚语融入创业主题中,对他们来说,个人和国家品牌都是核心。虽然说克丘亚语在历史上曾将“独立性”与落后、乡村、祖先和无知联系在一起,但现在它正与其他语言和非语言标志(如专业人士和懂英语)联系在一起以在新自由主义经济增长和国家文化品牌政策的背景下注册多元文化公民身份。尽管在利马学习克丘亚语的需求正在改变克丘亚的含义和价值观,至少在发言者的范围内是这样,但它也可能消除秘鲁社会中土著人民正在进行的种族化进程,以及在获得教育和经济资源方面的根本差距。
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International Journal of the Sociology of Language
International Journal of the Sociology of Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) is dedicated to the development of the sociology of language as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other, contributing thereby to the growth of language-related knowledge, applications, values and sensitivities. Five of the journal''s annual issues are topically focused, all of the articles in such issues being commissioned in advance, after acceptance of proposals. One annual issue is reserved for single articles on the sociology of language. Selected issues throughout the year also feature a contribution on small languages and small language communities.
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