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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Genocide Studies International.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 8 (2014) through current issueLatest Articles: Genocide Studies InternationalTWOProject MUSE®Genocide Studies International2291-18472291-1855Latest articles in Genocide Studies International. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Special Issue: The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971614
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This special issue of Genocide Studies International examines the erasure and revitalization of Indigenous cultures and languages as a crucial area of analysis within genocide and human rights studies. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, this collection explores how Indigenous languages function as both targets and tools of survival within broader genocidal processes. It emphasizes that language revitalization is not simply about preservation but is part of a larger movement for self-determination, sovereignty, and resistance.The identities, sovereignties, and knowledges of Indigenous peoples are inextricably woven into the languages they speak. These languages emerge from
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690/image/coversmallSpecial Issue: The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages2025-10-11text/htmlen-USSpecial Issue: The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages2025-10-112025TWOProject MUSE®112312026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-10-11Language Death and Revival after Cultural Destruction: Reflections on a Little Discussed Aspect of Genocide
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971615
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Minerals, plants, animals, and humans all have an equal right to exist because they all equally enjoy the fact of existing.The destruction of cultures and languages over the past century is hardly theoretical. Certainly, some of the drain has been voluntary, certainly cultures undergo change, certainly many of these people still live full lives (disregarding the pain and suffering of both victims and survivors). But the loss and its cost fill me with sadness; for many this sadness is, quite literally, unspeakable.In 2005, I published in the Journal of Genocide Research, 7(3): 423-430, what may very well have been one of the earliest—if not the first—articles to draw a connection between genocide and what we may
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690/image/coversmallLanguage Death and Revival after Cultural Destruction: Reflections on a Little Discussed Aspect of Genocide2025-10-11text/htmlen-USLanguage Death and Revival after Cultural Destruction: Reflections on a Little Discussed Aspect of Genocide2025-10-112025TWOProject MUSE®357532026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-10-11Ani-Anishinaabewaadizing (Becoming Indigenous): Healing from Sustained Cultural Genocide and Linguicide through Ojibwe Language World View
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971616
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Intergenerational transmission of culture and language across Native American communities in the United States has been obstructed by more than 520 years of sustained cultural genocide and linguicide which, in turn, inflicted intergenerational trauma that still impacts Native American communities today. As Benjamin Madley argues, this trauma is the result of the "near-annihilation" of the Indigenous peoples of North America.1 It is phenomenal, therefore, that some language and culture has survived in spite of the sustained attacks and many acts of genocide, though the fate of most Indigenous languages remains fragile and under the immediate threat of extinction if interventions to preserve and revitalize them are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690/image/coversmallAni-Anishinaabewaadizing (Becoming Indigenous): Healing from Sustained Cultural Genocide and Linguicide through Ojibwe Language World View2025-10-11text/htmlen-USAni-Anishinaabewaadizing (Becoming Indigenous): Healing from Sustained Cultural Genocide and Linguicide through Ojibwe Language World View2025-10-112025TWOProject MUSE®1097822026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-10-11The Impact of Language Revitalization Efforts on Indigenous Cultural Practices: A Case Study of the Tahltan, Cherokee, and Lakota Nations
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971617
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Cultural practices are a "dynamic and adaptive system of meaning that are learned, shared, and transmitted from one generation to the next and are reflected in the values, norms, practices, symbols, ways of life, and other social interactions of a given culture."1 One element that is uniquely ingrained in cultural practices is language. Language "shapes the way that people think about and interact with the world. For many people, their ancestral language is integral to cultural expression and continuity."2 Therefore, when languages become endangered or dormant, this directly impacts culture and cultural practices. This is specifically true for Indigenous cultural practices since traditions and customs are passed
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690/image/coversmallThe Impact of Language Revitalization Efforts on Indigenous Cultural Practices: A Case Study of the Tahltan, Cherokee, and Lakota Nations2025-10-11text/htmlen-USThe Impact of Language Revitalization Efforts on Indigenous Cultural Practices: A Case Study of the Tahltan, Cherokee, and Lakota Nations2025-10-112025TWOProject MUSE®706902026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-10-11From Annihilation to Revitalization in Guatemala: Uses and Misuses of the Ixil Mayan Language in a Post-genocidal Justice Court
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971618
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Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala experienced an extremely brutal internal armed conflict, considered to be one of the bloodiest on the continent. Two hundred and fifty thousand people died or disappeared and 1.5 million were displaced or became refugees. Against an international backdrop of opposition between the communist and capitalist blocs, the country saw Marxist and indigenous guerrilla movements confront the Guatemalan army in a conflict that turned genocidal in some predominantly indigenous regions, especially under the mandate of former de facto head of state Efraín Ríos Montt (1982–1983). This army general, pastor of the El Verbo church, sought to build the kingdom of God on earth in Guatemala, conceived
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690/image/coversmallFrom Annihilation to Revitalization in Guatemala: Uses and Misuses of the Ixil Mayan Language in a Post-genocidal Justice Court2025-10-11text/htmlen-USFrom Annihilation to Revitalization in Guatemala: Uses and Misuses of the Ixil Mayan Language in a Post-genocidal Justice Court2025-10-112025TWOProject MUSE®867122026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-10-11The Awakening of Mapuzugun (the Mapuche Language): Challenges, Reflections, and Effects of this Struggle in Northern Patagonia, Argentina
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971619
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This paper is the result of ongoing social anthropological research in the field of memory, drawing on the contributions of those who have studied the correlation between memories, relationships, and territory following violent events in communities and indigenous groups. It is particularly concerned with the processes of Mapuche language revitalization, political ontology, and territoriality issues.While completing my bachelor's thesis I studied the processes of institutionalization of interculturality in a small town in the province of Neuquén, Argentina. During this time, I observed local Mapuche communities struggle to expand their rights and in their search for a more inclusive and heterogeneous understanding
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690/image/coversmallThe Awakening of Mapuzugun (the Mapuche Language): Challenges, Reflections, and Effects of this Struggle in Northern Patagonia, Argentina2025-10-11text/htmlen-USThe Awakening of Mapuzugun (the Mapuche Language): Challenges, Reflections, and Effects of this Struggle in Northern Patagonia, Argentina2025-10-112025TWOProject MUSE®845922026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-10-11'Conquered Primitives Have No Written Language': Language Revitalization, Reactionary Settler Colonialism, and Perpetual Genocide
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971620
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Some genocides never end; after they are perpetrated, they are perpetuated. While evidence of genocidal violence is doctored and destroyed, perpetrators enjoy impunity, memory is distorted, victim testimony is ignored and repressed, victors revel in the spoils, and a culture of denial takes root as repeated assaults on survivors counter their efforts to reconstitute themselves as groups, socially, politically, culturally, and economically. This article examines how such attacks involve opposition to the public use of Indigenous languages, focusing on Australia.More specifically, this article examines online backlash against Indigenous language revitalization. Indigenous language revitalization refers to efforts to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690/image/coversmall'Conquered Primitives Have No Written Language': Language Revitalization, Reactionary Settler Colonialism, and Perpetual Genocide2025-10-11text/htmlen-US'Conquered Primitives Have No Written Language': Language Revitalization, Reactionary Settler Colonialism, and Perpetual Genocide2025-10-112025TWOProject MUSE®1408422026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-10-11