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More than 40 percent of the world's estimated 7,100+ languages are in danger of disappearing by the end of this century. As with the decline of biodiversity, language loss has been attributed to environmental degradation, developmentalism, and the destruction of Indigenous communities. This book brings together leading experts and younger scholars across the humanities and social sciences to investigate what global language justice looks like in a time of climate crisis. Examining the worldwide loss of linguistic diversity, they develop a new conception of justice to safeguard marginalized languages.Global Language Justice explores the socioeconomic transformations that both accelerate the decline of minoritized languages and give rise to new possibilities through population movement, unexpected encounters, and technological change. It also critically examines the concepts that are typically deployed to defend linguistic diversity, including human rights, inclusiveness, and equality. Contributors take up topics such as mapping language communities in New York City or how Indigenous innovation challenges notions of linguistic purity. They demonstrate the need to reckon with linguistic diversity in order to achieve a sustainable global economic system and show how the concept of digital vitality can push language justice in new directions. Interspersed with their essays are multilingual works by world-renowned poets and artists that engage with and deepen the book's themes. Integrating ambitious theoretical exploration with concrete solutions, Global Language Justice offers vital new perspectives on the place of linguistic diversity in ongoing ecological crises

In May 2014, the editors of CSSAAME hosted a discussion with the Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander about artistic practice and its role in deconstructing (and reframing) the often vexed relationship Eurocentric canons of art history and aesthetic theory have with regional art and artists. The discussion is the first of a series of events that intersect ongoing concerns of the journal, even as they open new avenues for collective consideration of art and its curation that extends beyond the attention that an individual art historian or cultural critic might direct toward specific artists, or singular artworks. These questions assume added significance against the backdrop of a rapidly globalizing museum culture, supported by the concomitant rise in museum construction as supportive infrastructure for new sites of spectacle and speculation.

"This volume seeks to investigate how the stories of languages' survival, death, and revival across world culture is intrinsic to the larger ecological, political, and socioeconomic processes that cut across developed and developing societies. The multi-disciplinary group of contributors explore through research and literary experimentation the evolving and open-ended processes that have been central to how language communities come into being, disperse, intermingle, disappear or revive and, conversely, how the relationship amongst languages--never reducible to the speakers of particular languages who might be bilingual, multilingual, or translingual--shapes ecological, political, and socioeconomic processes. These may include, for example, discriminatory public policies, unjust social practices in education, unequal distributions of language-based resources such as the access to digital technology, health care, and social services in general. Although the volume considers endangerment of Indigenous languages and their preservation, its true focus is on linguistic resilience and vitality--the new possibilities that arise through population movement, unexpected encounters, technological innovation, and social transformation. A unique take on what true language justice might look like, Global Language Justice will be essential reading for a diverse audience of global policymakers, humanities and legal scholars, translators, and more"--

Discipline and the other body : humanitarianism, violence, and the colonial exception / Anupama Rao and Steven Pierce -- Defining and defiling the criminal body at the Cape of Good Hope : punishing the crime of suicide under Dutch East India Company rule, circa 1652-1795 / Kerry Ward -- The burden of Louis Congo and the evolution of savagery in colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy -- "Sinful propensities" : piracy, sodomy, and empire in the rhetoric of naval reform, 1770-1870 / Isaac Land -- The raj's other great game : policing the sexual frontiers of the Indian army in the first half of the nineteenth century / Douglas M. Peers -- Problems of violence, states of terror : torture in colonial India / Anupama Rao -- Punishment and the political body : flogging and colonialism in northern Nigeria / Steven Pierce -- Footbinding and anti-footbinding in China : the subject of pain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Dorothy Ko -- An economy of suffering : addressing the violence of discipline in railway workers' petitions to the agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930-47 / Laura Bear -- Spirit discipline : gender, Islam, and hierarchies of treatment in postcolonial northern Nigeria / Susan O'Brien -- Selections from Castaway / Yvette Christianse

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Thinking the Postcolonial Con temporary -- 1. Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions -- 2. When Revolution Is Not Enough: Tracing the Limits of Black Radicalism in Dionne Brand's Chronicles of the Hostile Sun -- 3. Mysterious Moves of Revolution: Specters of Black Power, Futures of Postcoloniality -- 4. Reading Du Bois's Revelation: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism -- 5. Deprovincializing Anticaste Thought: A Genealogy of Ambedkar's Dalit -- 6. The Postcolonial Avant- Garde and the Claim to Futurity: Edwar al- Kharrat's Ethics of Tentative Innovation -- 7. Neither Greek nor Indian: Space, Nation, and History in River of Fire and The Mermaid Madonna -- 8. For a Marxist Theory of Waste: Seven Remarks -- 9. Goolarabooloo Futures: Mining and Aborigines in Northwest Australia -- 10. Buenos Aires's La Salada Market and Plebeian Citizenship -- 11. The Speed of Place and the Space of Time: Toward a Theory of Postcolonial Velo/city -- 12. The Wrong Side of History: Anachronism and Authoritarianism -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index