‘Civilising’ Deaf people in Tibet and Inner Mongolia: governing linguistic, ethnic and bodily difference in China

Hofer, Theresia; Sagli, Gry

doi:10.1080/09687599.2017.1302319

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“…Friedner notes that it was because of, as well as in spite of, the stigma surrounding signing that “signers gravitated towards each other” and to the “pleasures derived from using signed languages together” in such an infectious way. Thus, as these and several other recent publications explore (e.g., Eldredge ; Hofer and Sagli ; Kusters ), deaf social networks are one place to look for strategies for sustaining linguistic and cultural capacities “in the face of conditions” that may work to diminish them (Paris and Alim , 13).…”

Section: Linguistic Anthropology Could Be Otherwisementioning

confidence: 91%

Linguistic Anthropology in 2017: It Could Be Otherwise

Hoffmann‐Dilloway

2018

American Anthropologist

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In this review, I discuss recent works that embody Monica Heller's (2017, 12) assertion that anthropology is about "imagining alternative worlds." In the first section, "Presence(s), Contact(s), and their Alternatives," I focus on work that refines our analytical grasp of the semiotic processes underlying past, current, and projected realities, possibilities, and engagements. The second section, "Shifting Political Economies," deals with publications that specifically explore how political economic conditions are otherwise than was the case when linguistic anthropologists began formulating approaches to the political economies of language in the immediate post-Cold War period. In a third section, "Evidence and/of Imagination," I examine how linguistic anthropological works published in the period under review have used the terms "imagine/imagined/imaginary" in polyvalent senses when exploring how alternative worlds are conceived and produced, and consider how this nontechnical term can allow scholars to evade or to open up questions of scale and evidence. The final section, "Linguistic Anthropology Could be Otherwise," takes up work in 2017 that asks how the practice of linguistic anthropology itself could be-and should be-otherwise in terms of our engagements outside the field and the scope of our theoretical and political imaginations. [linguistic anthropology, semiotics, alternatives, imagination, political economies]RESUMEN En esta revisión, discuto los trabajos recientes que corporeizan la aserción de Monica Heller (2017, 12) que la antropología es acerca de "imaginarnos mundos alternativos." En la primera sección, "Presencia(s), contacto(s), y sus alternativas", me enfoco en el trabajo que refina nuestra comprensión analítica de los procesos semióticos subyacentes de las realidades, posibilidades y compromisos pasados, actuales y proyectados. La segunda sección, "Economías políticas cambiantes", se ocupa de las publicaciones que exploran específicamente cómo las condiciones económicas políticas son de otra manera de lo que era el caso cuando antropólogos lingüísticos empezaron formulando aproximaciones a las economías políticas del lenguaje en el período inmediato de post-Guerra Fría. En una tercera sección, "Evidencia y/de imaginación," examino cómo los trabajos antropológicos lingüísticos publicados en el período bajo revisión han usado los términos "imaginar/imaginado/imaginario" en sentidos polivalentes cuando exploran cómo mundos alternativos son concebidos y producidos, y consideran cómo este término no técnico puede permitir a los investigadores evadir o abrirse a cuestiones de escala y evidencia. La sección final, "Antropología lingüística podría ser de otra manera", se ocupa de trabajo en el 2017 que interroga cómo la práctica de antropología lingüística en sí misma podría ser -y debería ser-de otra manera en términos de nuestros compromisos por fuera del campo y elámbito de nuestras imaginaciones teóricas y políticas. [antropología lingüística, semiótica, alternativas, imaginación, economías pol...

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Section: Linguistic Anthropology Could Be Otherwisementioning

confidence: 91%

Linguistic Anthropology in 2017: It Could Be Otherwise

Hoffmann‐Dilloway

2018

American Anthropologist

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“…Deafness thus intersects with various sexual orientations (David & Cruz, 2018; Moreman & Briones, 2018), genders (Kisch, 2012), ethnicities and classes. In China, the government has been “civilizing” DHH people who belong to various ethnic minorities through free distribution of CI and the promotion of spoken Chinese and Chinese Sign Language at the cost of local sign languages (Hofer & Sagli, 2017). In the US, health professionals routinely expect a higher rate of non‐adoption of spoken language among ethnic minority families of children with CI (Mauldin, 2019).…”

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Technological socialities: The impact of information and communication technologies on belonging among deaf and hard‐of‐hearing people

Ahlin

Hiddinga

2023

Sociology Compass

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This review article examines how different types of communication technologies, from the specialized medical to generic social devices, influence belonging and sociality among deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people. The emphasis is on DHH adolescents and young adults who may be impacted differently across countries, given state-specific policies regarding the status of sign language and deaf education, and based on different availability, affordability, and accessibility of communication technologies. We introduce different perspectives on deafness, ranging from pathological to cultural, a heuristic on which we build to explore DHH socialities as complex and evolving. We then analytically review ethnographic research on how cochlear implants impact DHH people's belonging to the "deaf world" and/or the "hearing world," and how they navigate between these worlds. Then we move on to technologies such as text messages and social media, which enable DHH people to extend their socialities beyond local communities. Belonging is a fluid phenomenon, and technologies which are in a constant process of innovation and development may influence it in complex ways. We argue that to explore questions of belonging, identity, and sociality among DHH people, and

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“…While a range of communication practices surely existed among deaf people and between deaf and hearing people before 2000, from that year onwards significantly new communication opportunities developed among deaf Tibetans in Lhasa. That year the International NGO Handicap International (HI) started working with deaf Tibetans and established a project to formalize and support what they called "Tibetan Sign Language" (or for short TSL) through the production of sign language dictionaries and Deaf Club activities (Hofer 2017;Hofer and Sagli 2017;TDA 2011;TDPF & HI 2002. The project also created a new and at first two-handed TSL manual alphabet that later become one-handed (TDPF & HI 2002: 16, TDA 2005.…”

Section: The Recent Emergence Of Tibetan Sign Language Its Users Andmentioning

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“Goat-Sheep-Mixed-Sign” in Lhasa – Deaf Tibetans’ language ideologies and unimodal codeswitching in Tibetan and Chinese sign languages, Tibet Autonomous Region, China

‘Civilising’ Deaf people in Tibet and Inner Mongolia: governing linguistic, ethnic and bodily difference in China

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

Linguistic Anthropology in 2017: It Could Be Otherwise

Linguistic Anthropology in 2017: It Could Be Otherwise

Technological socialities: The impact of information and communication technologies on belonging among deaf and hard‐of‐hearing people

“Goat-Sheep-Mixed-Sign” in Lhasa – Deaf Tibetans’ language ideologies and unimodal codeswitching in Tibetan and Chinese sign languages, Tibet Autonomous Region, China

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