This week’s installment is not particularly old, but it’s fascinating: an ethnography of Yangon’s deaf community and their struggle for what author Ellen Foote calls “linguistic citizenship.” We only have the introduction, unfortunately, but see here for it, and for all the other cuts in our series.

Foote, Ellen. Sign Languages and Linguistic Citizenship: A Critical Ethnographic Study of the Yangon Deaf Community. Routledge, 2020.