Reassessing Māori regeneration

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2913131
AutoresBernard Spolsky (0000-0002-2990-5490, Bar-Ilan University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen32
Número4
Páginas553-578
Fecha de publicación2003-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404503324042
OpenAlexW2020683187
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas34
Referencias citadas18

After nearly two centuries of contact with Europeans, the Māori language of New Zealand was, by the 1960s, threatened with extinction. Accompanying a movement for ethnic revival, a series of grassroots regeneration efforts that established adult, preschool, and autonomous school immersion programs has over the past two decades increased substantially the number of Māori who know and use their language, but this has not yet led to the reestablishment of natural intergenerational transmission. More recently, responding to growing ethnic pressures, the New Zealand government has adopted a Māori language policy and is starting to implement it. Seen in its widest social, political, and economic context, this process can be understood not as colonial language loss followed by postcolonial reversing language shift activities, but as the continuation of a long process of negotiation of accommodation between autochthonous Māori and European settlers

Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Grassroots · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Education Systems and Policy · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy