Copy of Indigenous Language Rights in Postcolonial Developed Countries
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Collaboration with Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and McGill University.
Complementing my previous research on Indigenous Language Rights in Latin America, this project will enable a comparison between language policies addressing the needs of indigenous populations in postcolonial contexts across the Global North and the Global South. Specifically, the project will focus on different attitudes towards the value of translation and interpreting as facilitators of access to Human Rights for minoritised communities in multilingual developed and developing countries. Building on collaborative research related to Indigenous Rights in Latin American countries funded by AHRC/GCRF, this project sees to analyse the status quo in Canada and New Zealand. I will be working with established academics in the field (Dr María Sierra Córdoba Serrano, at McGill University, and Professor Ineke Crezee, at Auckland University of Technology). The reason for my choice of locales is the evolving polarisation regarding the object of this research in postcolonial developed countries, which seems to mirror that in Latin American developing countries (especially, since the Covid-19 pandemic), albeit for different structural and infrastructural reasons.
Total award value ?9,575.00