Socio-semiotic Violence and the “Population Explosion” Prof Nomad I Sunny-Boy Brumby I Ahmar Mahboob Permission and the World of Slogans I remember texts with slogans from my childhood. Not poems. Not prayers. Slogans. They told us what…
Book: Delusional Sates: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan’s Northern Frontier Author: Nosheen Ali Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-108 total pages: 304 pp. The very subtitle of book “Delusional States:…
Those who are interested in knowledge production and dissemination about the mountain communities of High Asia and South Asia please share their papers on a wide range of themes mentioned below.
And, what is the point of speaking and writing about the International Mother Language Day when our languages continue to be disempowered today?
Ano ang subaltern linguistics? Ahmar Mahboob University of Sydney Salin sa Filipino ni Louie Jon A. Sánchez Translated into Filipino by: Louie Jon A. Sánchez Ang subaltern linguistics ay isang uri ng lingguwistika na ginagawa ng isang…
By Artem Zurabovich & Sviatoslav Kaverin (The writers are young Russian researchers who take keen interest in the history, languages, music and handicrafts of highlanders in the Pamir-Hindukush area.) Dards are a group of peoples who…
"Our class was full of human knowledge. We had a teacher who believed in us; he didn't hide our power, he advertised it". ̶ Jasso & Jasso, 1995, p. 255 I have one question for you: if you were to build a house, would you start from the…
“Language is a political institution; those who are wise in its ways, capable of using it to shape and serve important personal and social goals, will be the ones who are ‘empowered’; able, that is, not merely to participate effectively in…
Abstract In 1921, George Grierson, the editor of the Linguistic Survey of India, wrote the following words about what we now call the “Kohistani” languages of northern Pakistan: “These languages are being gradually superseded by Pashto, and…
The medieval Mumlikat-e-Gibar of northeastern Afghanistan and the northern areas of Pakistan was established as a Muslim Tajik sultanate in about 1190 AD. Being ruled in tandem by two brothers, Sultan Bahram and Sultan Pakhal (or Fahkal)…
