Gerald Roche

The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Focuses on how Tibet's minority languages are vulnerable to both the Chinese state's aggressive assimilatory policies and a transnational project that resists this assimilation by promoting Tibetan ethnic survival through linguistic homogenization"-

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781501777783
• ISBN-10: 1501777785
• Artikelnr.: 71263345

Autorenporträt

Gerald Roche is Associate Professor in Politics in the Department of Politics, Media, and Philosophy at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. His work focuses on power, the state, colonialism, and racism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Language Oppression
Part 1: Erasure
1. Before Language Oppression: Languages and Sovereign Power
2. Language Oppression and the State: Biopolitics and State Racism in the
People's Republic of China
Part 2: Supression
3. Language Oppression and Resistance: Race War andthe Violence of
Self-Defense
4. Language Oppression and Global Power Circuits
Part 3: Elimination
5. The Slow Violence of State-Building
6. Banal Violence and Biosovereign Power
Conclusion: Resisting Languag
Epilogue