Reassessing Māori regeneration

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2913131
AutoresBernard Spolsky (0000-0002-2990-5490, Bar-Ilan University, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume32
Fascículo4
Páginas553-578
Data de publicação2003-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404503324042
OpenAlexW2020683187
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas34
Referências 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