Articles with "political histories" as a keyword



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Kichwa or Quichua? Competing Alphabets, Political Histories, and Complicated Reading in Indigenous Languages

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Published in 2018 at "Comparative Education Review"

DOI: 10.1086/695487

Abstract: Over the past century, missionary educators, nation-state and academic planners, and literacy development workers have used alphabets for political ends for traditionally marginalized languages, and Native peoples have contested such planning with other alphabet proposals.… read more here.

Keywords: histories complicated; kichwa quichua; alphabets political; competing alphabets ... See more keywords
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Building Tokyo: Social and Political Histories

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Published in 2022 at "Journal of Urban History"

DOI: 10.1177/00961442221078575

Abstract: This essay introduces contributions by six scholars of modern Japanese history writing about Japanese cities. The essays cover key issues in the history of Tokyo from the late-nineteenth century to the years immediately after World… read more here.

Keywords: history; political histories; social political; building tokyo ... See more keywords