Aonghas St-Hilaire
Biographic Data
| ID | 235889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aonghas St-Hilaire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aonghas |
| FAMILY NAME | St-Hilaire |
| SIGNATURE | ST-HILAIRE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9161-4742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Environmental flows and water governance
Louisiana French Immersion Education
This paper examines the role that cultural identity and grassroots activism and community development have played in the creation, maintenance and expansion of Louisiana French immersion education. Although linguists tend to portray the extinction of endangered minority languages as inevitable, research on the effects of minority language immersion education provides evidence that this portrayal is not an accurate one. In Louisiana, community con…
Globalization, urbanization, and language in Caribbean development
Discusses the trend toward Anglicization in St. Lucia, and the increasing demise of the Kwéyòl language in the historically Kweyol-speaking rural districts, related to perceived opportunities for economic advancement. Author explains how this influence of Anglicization spread from the, more English-focused, capital Castries to the rural areas of the islands. He places this perception of English for economic possibilities (of children), partly als…
Ethnicity, assimilation and nation in plural Suriname
Suriname is a developing nation with a colonial legacy of ethnic division and cultural dependence. The post-1945 urbanization of the Surinamese population ushered in new dynamics in ethnicity and assimilation. In the urban context, ethnicity emerged as a pre-eminent organizer of society. However, in this context, assimilation to the unique, evolving Surinamese-Dutch culture is on the rise, signalling a shift from a linguistically and culturally f…
Global Incorporation and Cultural Survival
The Maroons of Suriname enter the twenty-? rst century as the only surviving, culturally and politically autonomous Maroon communities in the Americas. The paper adopts a world-systems approach to explain the evolution of the Surinamese Maroon nations vis-à-vis the ever expanding Surinamese state and global political economy, with particular attention paid to the cultural survival of the Maroon nations. Prior to emancipation, limited colonial int…
Language Planning and Development in the Caribbean
Planification y desarrollo lingüísticos en el Caribe: El Suriname multi-étnico Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Suriname, como muchos otros territorios del Caribe, experimenté un movimiento nacionalista y cultural creciente cuyos partidarios abogaban por un mayor papel para el sranan, la lengua franca criolla surinamense, en la vida nacional. Sin embargo, los prejuicios históricos desfavorables y la estigmatización del sranan dificul-taron l…
North America and the Francophonie
La langue francaise d'Amerique du nord survit en tant que 1 e langue dans la vie familiale et communautaire de 3 bastions francophones historiques : le Quebec, le Nouveau-Brunswick et la Louisiane. Cependant, dans aucune de ces trois regions, la viabilite a long terme du francais comme langue communautaire n'est assuree. C'est pourquoi, des mouvements locaux tendent a combiner leurs forces avec la francophonie globale, un mouvement transnational …
Ethnicity, assimilation and nation in plural Suriname
Suriname is a developing nation with a colonial legacy of ethnic division and cultural dependence. The post-1945 urbanization of the Surinamese population ushered in new dynamics in ethnicity and assimilation. In the urban context, ethnicity emerged as a pre-eminent organizer of society. However, in this context, assimilation to the unique, evolving Surinamese-Dutch culture is on the rise, signalling a shift from a linguistically and culturally f…
Global Incorporation and Cultural Survival
The Maroons of Suriname enter the twenty-? rst century as the only surviving, culturally and politically autonomous Maroon communities in the Americas. The paper adopts a world-systems approach to explain the evolution of the Surinamese Maroon nations vis-à-vis the ever expanding Surinamese state and global political economy, with particular attention paid to the cultural survival of the Maroon nations. Prior to emancipation, limited colonial int…
Environmental flows and water governance
Globalization, urbanization, and language in Caribbean development
Discusses the trend toward Anglicization in St. Lucia, and the increasing demise of the Kwéyòl language in the historically Kweyol-speaking rural districts, related to perceived opportunities for economic advancement. Author explains how this influence of Anglicization spread from the, more English-focused, capital Castries to the rural areas of the islands. He places this perception of English for economic possibilities (of children), partly als…
Language Planning and Development in the Caribbean
Planification y desarrollo lingüísticos en el Caribe: El Suriname multi-étnico Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Suriname, como muchos otros territorios del Caribe, experimenté un movimiento nacionalista y cultural creciente cuyos partidarios abogaban por un mayor papel para el sranan, la lengua franca criolla surinamense, en la vida nacional. Sin embargo, los prejuicios históricos desfavorables y la estigmatización del sranan dificul-taron l…
North America and the Francophonie
La langue francaise d'Amerique du nord survit en tant que 1 e langue dans la vie familiale et communautaire de 3 bastions francophones historiques : le Quebec, le Nouveau-Brunswick et la Louisiane. Cependant, dans aucune de ces trois regions, la viabilite a long terme du francais comme langue communautaire n'est assuree. C'est pourquoi, des mouvements locaux tendent a combiner leurs forces avec la francophonie globale, un mouvement transnational …
Language Planning and Development in the Caribbean
Planification y desarrollo lingüísticos en el Caribe: El Suriname multi-étnico Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Suriname, como muchos otros territorios del Caribe, experimenté un movimiento nacionalista y cultural creciente cuyos partidarios abogaban por un mayor papel para el sranan, la lengua franca criolla surinamense, en la vida nacional. Sin embargo, los prejuicios históricos desfavorables y la estigmatización del sranan dificul-taron l…
Global Incorporation and Cultural Survival
The Maroons of Suriname enter the twenty-? rst century as the only surviving, culturally and politically autonomous Maroon communities in the Americas. The paper adopts a world-systems approach to explain the evolution of the Surinamese Maroon nations vis-à-vis the ever expanding Surinamese state and global political economy, with particular attention paid to the cultural survival of the Maroon nations. Prior to emancipation, limited colonial int…
Ethnicity, assimilation and nation in plural Suriname
Suriname is a developing nation with a colonial legacy of ethnic division and cultural dependence. The post-1945 urbanization of the Surinamese population ushered in new dynamics in ethnicity and assimilation. In the urban context, ethnicity emerged as a pre-eminent organizer of society. However, in this context, assimilation to the unique, evolving Surinamese-Dutch culture is on the rise, signalling a shift from a linguistically and culturally f…
Globalization, urbanization, and language in Caribbean development
Discusses the trend toward Anglicization in St. Lucia, and the increasing demise of the Kwéyòl language in the historically Kweyol-speaking rural districts, related to perceived opportunities for economic advancement. Author explains how this influence of Anglicization spread from the, more English-focused, capital Castries to the rural areas of the islands. He places this perception of English for economic possibilities (of children), partly als…
Louisiana French Immersion Education
This paper examines the role that cultural identity and grassroots activism and community development have played in the creation, maintenance and expansion of Louisiana French immersion education. Although linguists tend to portray the extinction of endangered minority languages as inevitable, research on the effects of minority language immersion education provides evidence that this portrayal is not an accurate one. In Louisiana, community con…
Environmental flows and water governance
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · Law (2 works)