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Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks Guilherme Fians

Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks By Guilherme Fians

Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks by Guilherme Fians


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This book explores how Esperanto often regarded as a future-oriented utopian project that ended up confined to the past persists in the present.

Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks Summary

Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks: Language Politics, Digital Media and the Making of an International Community by Guilherme Fians

This book explores how Esperanto often regarded as a future-oriented utopian project that ended up confined to the past persists in the present. Constructed in the late nineteenth century to promote global linguistic understanding, this language was historically linked to anarchism, communism and pacifism. Yet, what political relevance does Esperanto retain in the present? What impacts have emerging communication technologies had on the dynamics of this speech community? Unpacking how Esperanto speakers are everywhere, but concentrated nowhere, the author argues that digital media have provided tools for people to (re)politicise acts of communication, produce horizontal learning spaces and, ultimately, build an international community. As Esperanto speakers question the post-political consensus about communication rights, this language becomes an ally of activism for open-source software and global social justice. This book will be of relevance to students and scholars researchingpolitical activism, language use and community-building, as well as anyone with an interest in digital media more broadly.

Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks Reviews

My curiosity turned to pleasure as I read on, since Fians writing is both ethnographically rich and theoretically sound . Thorough and easy to read, with material from real speakers and situations, Fians book would make an excellent text for courses dealing with sociolinguistics and multilingualism and, of course, for those focused on constructed languages. It could also serve as a model for those conducting research in constructed-language settings and, more generally, for those working with international and dispersed communities. (Christine Schreyer, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, July 31, 2022)

About Guilherme Fians

Guilherme Fians is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Brasilia, Brazil and Co-Director of the Centre for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, Netherlands/USA.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: In the beginning was the word.- Chapter 2:And the word was made flesh, or how to narrate histories.- Chapter 3:Follow the (non-)native: Circulating, mapping and territorialising the Esperanto community.- Chapter 4:When Esperanto speakers meet, or what makes this community international?.- Chapter 5:Crocodiles, apples and owls: Language variation and standardisation in a no mans language.- Chapter 6:On moving and standing still: The movement from the standpoint of an Esperanto association.- Chapter 7:Communicating is freedom: human languages, programming languages and new technologies.- Chapter 8:Esperanto in the making, making through Esperanto: prefiguration and the building of alternative presents.- Chapter 9:Conclusion, or how not to put an end to the conversation.

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NPB9783030842291
9783030842291
3030842290
Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks: Language Politics, Digital Media and the Making of an International Community by Guilherme Fians
New
Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2022-01-05
267
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