Jacqueline Urla
Biographic Data
| ID | 76055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacqueline Urla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacqueline |
| FAMILY NAME | Urla |
| SIGNATURE | URLA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2469-9931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 313 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Commentary: In search of sociolinguistic justice: mobilizing transformative agency through action research
Fieldschool Is Not What It Used to Be: Innovations in Teaching and Learning Ethnographic Methods
This article examines how teaching and learning ethnographic methods could be adapted to contemporary times, considering shifting understandings of ethnography and practical attention to the experiences of new fieldworkers. Using the European Field Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a case study, we identify several pedagogical techniques, including a cohort-based learning model, peer mentoring, and group blogging, to s…
Reading: An anniversary conversation with journal editors
Activating new speakers: Research among Spain's historic linguistic minorities
[Inicio] When, why, and how do people who regularly speak a majority language decide to become speakers of the minority language where they live? How do we understand their motivations, challenges, and behaviors? And how do these experiences vary across diverse sociolinguistic and political contexts? In the last two decades, the phenomenon of ‘new speakers’ of minority languages has achieved greater visibility and prominence in Europe, prompted i…
Welcome on board! Prefiguring knowledge production in the sociology of language
The everyday life of an academic journal is punctuated by a series of challenges, tasks, duties, and obligations. We spend most of our time reading papers, deciding who could or should review the work, convincing colleagues to agree to evaluate a piece, collecting comments, then pondering and synthesizing them, communicating the results to the authors, and dealing with bad news (when a paper has been rejected) and good news (when authors are happ…
Governmentality and Language
This article reviews how the analytics of governmentality have been taken up by scholars in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics. It explores the distinctive logics of "linguistic governmentality" understood as techniques and forms of expertise that seek to govern, guide, and shape (rather than force) linguistic conduct and subjectivity at the level of the population or the individual. Governmentality brings new pers…
Counting matters: Quantifying the vitality and value of Basque
Scholars of language policy and politics have increasingly come to appreciate that there is much insight to be gained by scrutinizing data collection practices and the debates around them. What is (or is not) counted and how counting is done has consequence, but in ways that are not always self-evident. Taking the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC) in Spain as a case study, this article examines the historical context in which census and other sta…
Linguistic identity among new speakers of Basque
The increase in Basque speakers in the last 30 years has been due in large part to 'new speakers' or euskaldunberri, a term that will be used here to refer to those who have learned the language by means other than family transmission. While very significant in numbers, to date this group has not been the object of much study. Little is known about their attitudes and motivations, how they perceive themselves as Basque speakers, or their language…
The Ethnography of Resistance Then and Now: On Thickness and Activist Engagement in the Twenty-First Century
This article seeks to convey some of the theoretical frameworks and commitments that characterize how anthropologists have approached the ethnography of resistance. Using our individual biographies as a point of departure, we describe and contrast the intellectual influences that shaped our ethnographic engagements as well as the unanticipated dilemmas we each faced with regard to writing, thick description, and accountability to research partici…
Catalan in the twenty-first century
The Basque Street Survey: Two Decades of Assessing Language Use in Public Spaces
Assessing the vitality of minority languages is a concern for many small language advocates and language planners. To date, most quantitative data for measuring the social presence of a language have been limited to reported language competency and use. In this article, a Basque language researcher and U.S. anthropologist collaborate to describe a novel instrument developed in the Basque Country called the Kale Neurketa or Basque Street Survey. D…
Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War Layla Renshaw
Black Skins, French Voices: Caribbean Ethnicity and Activism in Urban France - By David Beriss
Single Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Saving Languages: An Introduction to Language Revitalization. Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley
Euskara: The ‘terror’ of a European minority language
The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics of Culture and Identity
The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics of Culture and Identity. Camille C. O'Reilly. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1999. ix. 213 pp., maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, glossary, index
Women and Bullfighting: Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition
Women and Bullfighting: Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition. Sarah Pink. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 1997. 234 pp
Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture
Introduction: Mapping Embodied Deviance N Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline Urla Gender, Race and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of OHottentotO Women in Europe, 1815ETH1817 N Anne Fausto-Sterling Framed: The Deaf in the Harem N Nicholas Mirzoeff Colonizing and Transforming the Criminal Tribesman: The Salvation Army in British India N Rachel Tolen This Norm Which Is Not One: Reading the Female Body in LombrosoOs Anthropology N David G. Horn Anxious S…
Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class
Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class. Bonnie Urciuoli. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. 222 pp
Outlaw language: Creating alternative public spheres in Basque free radio
Recent rethinking of Habermas' Stntctural Transformatiort of the Public Sphere by The idealized image of a democratic theatre of free and equal participation in debate, they claim, has always been a fiction predicated on the mandatory silencing of entire social groups, vital social issues, and indeed, "ot any difference that cannot be assimilated, rationalized, and subsumed" (Hansen 1993b: 198). This is especially clear in the case of those citiz…
Korrika: Basque Ritual for Ethnic Identity. Teresa del Valle
Language, Self, and Society: A Social History of Language
Introduction. 1. Heu domine, adsunt Turcae: A Sketch for a Social History of Post--medieval Latin: Peter Burke. 2. The Uses of Hebrew in the English Revolution: Nigel Smith. 3. From Shibboleth to Apocalypse: Quaker Speechways during the Puritan Revolution: Hugh Ormsby--Lennon. 4. a New World of English Wordsa : John Ray, FRS, the Dialect Protagonist, in the Context of his Times (1658 -- 1691): Jo Gladstone. 5. The Peoplea s English: Language and …
Breaking All The Rules: An Interview with Frances Peters
Cultural Politics in an Age of Statistics: Numbers, nations, and the making of Basque identity
This article examines the public uses of language surveys and census data by militant and moderate Basque nationalist language organizations during the first few years of Basque political autonomy. As part of a modern regime of truth that equates knowledge with measurement, statistics occupy a privileged position of authority that gives them heightened rhetorical power in a context of competing political ideologies. Analysis focuses on how specif…
Contesting Modernities: Language standardization and the production of an ancient/modern Basque culture
Les mouvements nationalistes ne sont pas seulement attaches au passe. Ils doivent montrer une certaine modernite ; c'est ce que montre la standardisation de la langue basque qui veut s'affirmer face au catalan. Son enseignement est organise et sa diffusion passe par le piratage de plusieurs radios, autre preuve de modernite
Cultural Politics in an Age of Statistics: Numbers, nations, and the making of Basque identity
This article examines the public uses of language surveys and census data by militant and moderate Basque nationalist language organizations during the first few years of Basque political autonomy. As part of a modern regime of truth that equates knowledge with measurement, statistics occupy a privileged position of authority that gives them heightened rhetorical power in a context of competing political ideologies. Analysis focuses on how specif…
Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class
Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class. Bonnie Urciuoli. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. 222 pp
Ethnic Protest and Social Planning: A Look at Basque Language Revival
Governmentality and Language
This article reviews how the analytics of governmentality have been taken up by scholars in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics. It explores the distinctive logics of "linguistic governmentality" understood as techniques and forms of expertise that seek to govern, guide, and shape (rather than force) linguistic conduct and subjectivity at the level of the population or the individual. Governmentality brings new pers…
Linguistic identity among new speakers of Basque
The increase in Basque speakers in the last 30 years has been due in large part to 'new speakers' or euskaldunberri, a term that will be used here to refer to those who have learned the language by means other than family transmission. While very significant in numbers, to date this group has not been the object of much study. Little is known about their attitudes and motivations, how they perceive themselves as Basque speakers, or their language…
The Ethnography of Resistance Then and Now: On Thickness and Activist Engagement in the Twenty-First Century
This article seeks to convey some of the theoretical frameworks and commitments that characterize how anthropologists have approached the ethnography of resistance. Using our individual biographies as a point of departure, we describe and contrast the intellectual influences that shaped our ethnographic engagements as well as the unanticipated dilemmas we each faced with regard to writing, thick description, and accountability to research partici…
Contesting Modernities: Language standardization and the production of an ancient/modern Basque culture
Les mouvements nationalistes ne sont pas seulement attaches au passe. Ils doivent montrer une certaine modernite ; c'est ce que montre la standardisation de la langue basque qui veut s'affirmer face au catalan. Son enseignement est organise et sa diffusion passe par le piratage de plusieurs radios, autre preuve de modernite
Welcome on board! Prefiguring knowledge production in the sociology of language
The everyday life of an academic journal is punctuated by a series of challenges, tasks, duties, and obligations. We spend most of our time reading papers, deciding who could or should review the work, convincing colleagues to agree to evaluate a piece, collecting comments, then pondering and synthesizing them, communicating the results to the authors, and dealing with bad news (when a paper has been rejected) and good news (when authors are happ…
Counting matters: Quantifying the vitality and value of Basque
Scholars of language policy and politics have increasingly come to appreciate that there is much insight to be gained by scrutinizing data collection practices and the debates around them. What is (or is not) counted and how counting is done has consequence, but in ways that are not always self-evident. Taking the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC) in Spain as a case study, this article examines the historical context in which census and other sta…
Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament
Activating new speakers: Research among Spain's historic linguistic minorities
[Inicio] When, why, and how do people who regularly speak a majority language decide to become speakers of the minority language where they live? How do we understand their motivations, challenges, and behaviors? And how do these experiences vary across diverse sociolinguistic and political contexts? In the last two decades, the phenomenon of ‘new speakers’ of minority languages has achieved greater visibility and prominence in Europe, prompted i…
Women and Bullfighting: Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition
Women and Bullfighting: Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition. Sarah Pink. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 1997. 234 pp
The Basque Street Survey: Two Decades of Assessing Language Use in Public Spaces
Assessing the vitality of minority languages is a concern for many small language advocates and language planners. To date, most quantitative data for measuring the social presence of a language have been limited to reported language competency and use. In this article, a Basque language researcher and U.S. anthropologist collaborate to describe a novel instrument developed in the Basque Country called the Kale Neurketa or Basque Street Survey. D…
The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics of Culture and Identity
The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics of Culture and Identity. Camille C. O'Reilly. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1999. ix. 213 pp., maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, glossary, index
Breaking All The Rules: An Interview with Frances Peters
New Perspectives in Anthropology and Modern Literature
Il s'agit bien de cet objet: tete de cheval plus grande que nature oui s'incruste toute une ville, ses rues, et ses remparts, courant entre les yeux, epousant le meandre et l'allongement du museau. Un homme a su contruire de bois et de carton cette ville, et l'&clairer de biais d'une lune vraie, il s'agit bien de cet objet: la tete en cire d'une femme tournant echevelke sur le plateau d'un phonographe. Yves Bonnefoy Anti-Platon
Foucault et les États-Unis
Ethnic Protest and Social Planning: A Look at Basque Language Revival
Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament
Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia. KATHRYN A. Woolard
Breaking All The Rules: An Interview with Frances Peters
Cultural Politics in an Age of Statistics: Numbers, nations, and the making of Basque identity
This article examines the public uses of language surveys and census data by militant and moderate Basque nationalist language organizations during the first few years of Basque political autonomy. As part of a modern regime of truth that equates knowledge with measurement, statistics occupy a privileged position of authority that gives them heightened rhetorical power in a context of competing political ideologies. Analysis focuses on how specif…
Contesting Modernities: Language standardization and the production of an ancient/modern Basque culture
Les mouvements nationalistes ne sont pas seulement attaches au passe. Ils doivent montrer une certaine modernite ; c'est ce que montre la standardisation de la langue basque qui veut s'affirmer face au catalan. Son enseignement est organise et sa diffusion passe par le piratage de plusieurs radios, autre preuve de modernite
Language, Self, and Society: A Social History of Language
Introduction. 1. Heu domine, adsunt Turcae: A Sketch for a Social History of Post--medieval Latin: Peter Burke. 2. The Uses of Hebrew in the English Revolution: Nigel Smith. 3. From Shibboleth to Apocalypse: Quaker Speechways during the Puritan Revolution: Hugh Ormsby--Lennon. 4. a New World of English Wordsa : John Ray, FRS, the Dialect Protagonist, in the Context of his Times (1658 -- 1691): Jo Gladstone. 5. The Peoplea s English: Language and …
Outlaw language: Creating alternative public spheres in Basque free radio
Recent rethinking of Habermas' Stntctural Transformatiort of the Public Sphere by The idealized image of a democratic theatre of free and equal participation in debate, they claim, has always been a fiction predicated on the mandatory silencing of entire social groups, vital social issues, and indeed, "ot any difference that cannot be assimilated, rationalized, and subsumed" (Hansen 1993b: 198). This is especially clear in the case of those citiz…
Korrika: Basque Ritual for Ethnic Identity. Teresa del Valle
Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture
Introduction: Mapping Embodied Deviance N Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline Urla Gender, Race and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of OHottentotO Women in Europe, 1815ETH1817 N Anne Fausto-Sterling Framed: The Deaf in the Harem N Nicholas Mirzoeff Colonizing and Transforming the Criminal Tribesman: The Salvation Army in British India N Rachel Tolen This Norm Which Is Not One: Reading the Female Body in LombrosoOs Anthropology N David G. Horn Anxious S…
Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class
Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class. Bonnie Urciuoli. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. 222 pp
Women and Bullfighting: Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition
Women and Bullfighting: Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition. Sarah Pink. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 1997. 234 pp
The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics of Culture and Identity
The Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics of Culture and Identity. Camille C. O'Reilly. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1999. ix. 213 pp., maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, glossary, index
Euskara: The ‘terror’ of a European minority language
Single Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Saving Languages: An Introduction to Language Revitalization. Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley
Black Skins, French Voices: Caribbean Ethnicity and Activism in Urban France - By David Beriss
Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War Layla Renshaw
Catalan in the twenty-first century
The Basque Street Survey: Two Decades of Assessing Language Use in Public Spaces
Assessing the vitality of minority languages is a concern for many small language advocates and language planners. To date, most quantitative data for measuring the social presence of a language have been limited to reported language competency and use. In this article, a Basque language researcher and U.S. anthropologist collaborate to describe a novel instrument developed in the Basque Country called the Kale Neurketa or Basque Street Survey. D…
The Ethnography of Resistance Then and Now: On Thickness and Activist Engagement in the Twenty-First Century
This article seeks to convey some of the theoretical frameworks and commitments that characterize how anthropologists have approached the ethnography of resistance. Using our individual biographies as a point of departure, we describe and contrast the intellectual influences that shaped our ethnographic engagements as well as the unanticipated dilemmas we each faced with regard to writing, thick description, and accountability to research partici…
Linguistic identity among new speakers of Basque
The increase in Basque speakers in the last 30 years has been due in large part to 'new speakers' or euskaldunberri, a term that will be used here to refer to those who have learned the language by means other than family transmission. While very significant in numbers, to date this group has not been the object of much study. Little is known about their attitudes and motivations, how they perceive themselves as Basque speakers, or their language…
Counting matters: Quantifying the vitality and value of Basque
Scholars of language policy and politics have increasingly come to appreciate that there is much insight to be gained by scrutinizing data collection practices and the debates around them. What is (or is not) counted and how counting is done has consequence, but in ways that are not always self-evident. Taking the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC) in Spain as a case study, this article examines the historical context in which census and other sta…
Governmentality and Language
This article reviews how the analytics of governmentality have been taken up by scholars in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics. It explores the distinctive logics of "linguistic governmentality" understood as techniques and forms of expertise that seek to govern, guide, and shape (rather than force) linguistic conduct and subjectivity at the level of the population or the individual. Governmentality brings new pers…
Sociology (23 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · History (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Basque language and culture studies (7 works) · History (7 works)