Jecon Dreisbach (jecondraysbak.bsky.social)
@jecondraysbak
PhD-ing Critical sociolinguistics @identicatUOC. Lecturer @DLSUManila. Politics of Philippine languages, identity, migration, culture, & media. Opinions my own.
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https://jecondraysbak.hcommons.org/disclaimer/ 25-05-2014 13:09:03
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The The Guardian says 'endangered languages' are 'spoken by a few but of value to many,' but when you justify language by its value, you create conditions where some languages can be judged as lacking value and can thus be eliminated.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Watch this conversation between GCLR members Irene Gotera and @geraldroche.bsky.social, on language rights and linguistic justice:
youtu.be/oHODcpvck8A?si…
My take:
👉 It's a people's revolution, not a civil war
👉 It's a process of coming together, building a nation in active war
👉 It's unprecedented, a serious political transformation
👉 It's time for int'l community, including ASEAN & UN, to step up
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
New research just published which looks at evacuation plans under storm surge 🌊 advisories in the #Philippines 🇵🇭. Check out the full open-access paper below. 👇doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdr…
Bilateral agreements on health worker migration and mobility World Health Organization (WHO)
who.int/publications-d…