Rosaleen Howard is Professor Emerita in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University with specialism in Latin American Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology. Editor of Creating Context in Andean Cultures (Oxford University Press, 1997) and co-editor of Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives (Liverpool University Press, 2002). Author of Por los linderos de la lengua: ideologías lingüísticas en los Andes (Institute of Peruvian Studies, Lima, 2007) and Beyond the lexicon of difference: Discursive Performance of Identity in the Andes, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 4 (1): 17–46, 2009.

"This is an excellent book, rich in insights and socio-linguistic and educational analysis of Andean contexts...and it challenges educationalists to look beyond the formal education sector to the language work of Indigenous youth and new educational spaces for the validation and promotion of Indigenous languages in a digital age." - Sheila Aikman, University of East Anglia, UK, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

• Preface1. Introduction2. Language: vehicle of power and object of policy3. Linguistic racism in Latin America: reality and rights4. Post-millennial politics of multilingualism in Hispanicised Latin America5. Indigenous language activism, second-language learning and the growth of agency6. Translation, interpreting and Indigenous language rights7. Conclusions

Rosaleen Howard is Professor Emerita in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University with specialism in Latin American Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology. Editor of Creating Context in Andean Cultures (Oxford University Press, 1997) and co-editor of Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives (Liverpool University Press, 2002). Author of Por los linderos de la lengua: ideologías lingüísticas en los Andes (Institute of Peruvian Studies, Lima, 2007) and Beyond the lexicon of difference: Discursive Performance of Identity in the Andes, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 4 (1): 17–46, 2009.

"This is an excellent book, rich in insights and socio-linguistic and educational analysis of Andean contexts...and it challenges educationalists to look beyond the formal education sector to the language work of Indigenous youth and new educational spaces for the validation and promotion of Indigenous languages in a digital age." - Sheila Aikman, University of East Anglia, UK, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

• Preface1. Introduction2. Language: vehicle of power and object of policy3. Linguistic racism in Latin America: reality and rights4. Post-millennial politics of multilingualism in Hispanicised Latin America5. Indigenous language activism, second-language learning and the growth of agency6. Translation, interpreting and Indigenous language rights7. Conclusions

Rosaleen Howard is Professor Emerita in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University with specialism in Latin American Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology. Editor of Creating Context in Andean Cultures (Oxford University Press, 1997) and co-editor of Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives (Liverpool University Press, 2002). Author of Por los linderos de la lengua: ideologías lingüísticas en los Andes (Institute of Peruvian Studies, Lima, 2007) and Beyond the lexicon of difference: Discursive Performance of Identity in the Andes, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 4 (1): 17–46, 2009.

"This is an excellent book, rich in insights and socio-linguistic and educational analysis of Andean contexts...and it challenges educationalists to look beyond the formal education sector to the language work of Indigenous youth and new educational spaces for the validation and promotion of Indigenous languages in a digital age." - Sheila Aikman, University of East Anglia, UK, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

• Preface1. Introduction2. Language: vehicle of power and object of policy3. Linguistic racism in Latin America: reality and rights4. Post-millennial politics of multilingualism in Hispanicised Latin America5. Indigenous language activism, second-language learning and the growth of agency6. Translation, interpreting and Indigenous language rights7. Conclusions