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Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Åbo Akademi University, Dept of Education, Vasa, Finland

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas has been actively involved with minorities' struggle for language rights for more than five decades. Her research interests include linguistic human rights, linguistic genocide, linguicism (linguistically argued racism), mother-tongue-based multilingual education, linguistic imperialism, subtractive spread of English, revitalization of endangered languages, and the relationship between linguistic and cultural diversity and biodiversity. She has published in 50 languages with titles including: Linguistic Genocide in Education - or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights? (2000); Imagining Multilingual Schools: Language in Education and Glocalization, ed. with Ofelia García and María Torres-Guzmán (2006); Multilingual Education for Social Justice: Globalising the Local (2009), ed. with Ajit Mohanty, Minati Panda, and Robert Phillipson; Multilingual Education Works: from the Periphery to the Centre (2010, ed. with Kathleen Heugh), Indigenous Children's Education as Linguistic Genocide and a Crime Against Humanity? A Global View (2010) with Robert Dunbar; Language Rights (ed. with Robert Phillipson, 4 volumes, 1668 pp., 2017).

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