The Light of Knowledge Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India / Francis Cody.
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TextPublisher: Cornell University Press, Description: 1 online resourceISBN: 9780801469022Subject(s): Social Science / Anthropology | Social sciencesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: View this content on Open Research Library. Summary: Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology's Edward Sapir Book Prize. Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. This rich ethnographic account of highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy. "A work of linguistic anthropology that makes crucial contributions to the study of literacy and language ideologies. It is also a broadly ranging work of social theory that will be of interest to students and scholars of the postcolonial state and neoliberal governmentality in South Asia and beyond, and of activism and social movements more generally."-Anthropological Quarterly
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| LC149 .W43 2020 What's hot in literacy : | LC149.5 .B47 2018 Best practices in teaching digital literacies / | LC151 .I34 2006 Identity Papers | LC157.I52 C63 2013 The Light of Knowledge | LC178.E85 Z8313 2017 Higher Education in 2040 | LC180.A35 U65 2011 The University in Africa and Democratic Citizenship | LC180.S6 D75 2014 Driving Change |
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Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology's Edward Sapir Book Prize. Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. This rich ethnographic account of highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy. "A work of linguistic anthropology that makes crucial contributions to the study of literacy and language ideologies. It is also a broadly ranging work of social theory that will be of interest to students and scholars of the postcolonial state and neoliberal governmentality in South Asia and beyond, and of activism and social movements more generally."-Anthropological Quarterly
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