Table of contents

Preface by Luis Enrique Lopez

Acknowledgements

List of acronyms

List of figures and tables

Part I Setting the scene

Chapter 1 Introduction

A colonial prelude

The multilingual states of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia

The ethnographic and cross-disciplinary nature of the research

Historical roots of Indigenous language policy in the Andes

Indigenous social movements in Latin America and scholarly responses

Indigenous language policy in the Andes today

The view of language guiding my research

The structure of the book

Chapter 2 Languages, peoples, places

Introduction

The cultural positioning of the self in the Andes

Social classification and naming of peoples and languages

Language ideologies, semiosis, and the performance of identities

Languages and peoples: a geographical view

Language distribution

A statistical view

Language usage

Indigenous peoples and the state

Final remarks: Indigenous people, language, and the environment

Chapter 3 Language policies, politics, and power

Introduction

The field of language policy and planning research

Language and power

Institutional arrangements for the governance of the plural state

Legislative instruments for the regimentation of Indigenous languages

Paradigms of diversity: shifting discourses of the plural state

Language policy and the technologies of power

Final remarks

Part II Language and power in the education sphere

Indigenous education in the Andes: Introduction

Chapter 4 The policies and politics of Indigenous education in Ecuador

The peak years of IBE in Ecuador: 1988-2006

IBE in the Citizen Revolution years: 2007-2017

IBE teacher training programmes and Indigenous Universities

Indigenous education in Ecuador since 2017

Final remarks

Chapter 5 The policies and politics of Indigenous education in Peru

1900-1930: Education and the "civilising" process

1930-1970: Expanding Westernisation and Hispanisation

1970-1990: Education policy for a multilingual and pluricultural reality

1990-2006: Neo-liberalism meets the politics of identity

2006-2011 An anti-Indigenous turn

2011-2020 Envisioning a multilingual state

Managing sociolinguistic diversity in policy and practice

Final remarks

Chapter 6 The policies and politics of Indigenous education in Bolivia

Introduction

20th century up until the 1952 Revolution

1952 to 1982 including periods of military rule

1982 return to democracy until 2005

Evo Morales’s presidency 2006-2019

Final remarks

Indigenous education in the Andes: Comparative summary

Part III Language in (post-)colonial spaces

Chapter 7 Literacy, textualisation and mediatisation

Introduction

A people without writing?

Literacy in the colonial period

Ideologies of literacy and symbolic power

Graphisation of Andean Indigenous languages

Vernacular literacies in present times

Andean Indigenous languages in literature, popular culture, and media

Final remarks

Chapter 8 Translation and interpreting: From past to present

Introduction

Theoretical considerations and the Andean context

Interpreting and translation in historical perspective

Translation and interpreting in the post-millennial period

Final remarks

Chapter 9 Concluding reflections: Paradoxes of diversity

Glossary of terms

List of legislative instruments

References

Index