Learning to Speak Indigenous Languages with Compassionate Listening Practices

Hammine, Madoka

doi:10.33063/diva-472014

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“…At the height of Western interest in the Ryukyus in the 19th century, the imperial military of Japan forcefully abolished the Ryukyu government and then incorporated the kingdom into the Japanese nation-state as the Okinawa Prefecture in 1879 (Kerr, 1958(Kerr, /2000. Soon after, Japan implemented policies aimed at assimilating the Ryukyuan people into Japanese mono-ethnic culture by marginalizing and oppressing the Indigenous culture, including the Ryukyuan languages, the Indigenous language that is traditionally spoken in the Ryukyus (Hammine, 2021).…”

Section: Us Military Base In Okinawamentioning

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“…Considering the Okinawan experience as natural or static will distance one from engaging the issue and negate the possibility of bettering the situation. Also, it should be noted that there is an internal diversity of experience, different ways of understanding of nature, and variant identities within Okinawa Island and the Ryukyu islands (Hammine, 2021;Higashimori, 2021;Matsuda, 2008). In order to eschew such naturalization of the local experience, it can be appreciated best through engagement with the Indigenous epistemological framework of the natural environment, which argues that land is a field of "the relationship of things to each other" (Deloria Jr, 1986).…”

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From “footprint” to relationships: Impacts of US military base on Okinawa

Oshiro

2023

Sociology Compass

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How does militarism impact the natural environment? There is a growing body of scholarly work interrogating the intersection of environmental impacts and military activities from what can be referred to as a “footprint” perspective, which documents the tangible environmental impacts. Further, this paper introduces an alternative perspective on militarism's environmental impacts, which emphasizes Indigenous people's relationship to the environment, which this paper calls the relational perspective. This review paper argues that the emerging research concerning the environmental impacts of the US military bases in Okinawa employs the relational perspective, which echoes insights from Indigenous studies that see land as a field of the relationship of things to each other. Overall, this paper acknowledges that there is a reciprocal relationship that bridges humans and nonhuman subjectivity, including the natural environment, animals, and plants, and some places, like Okinawa, prioritize this perspective, which gives us a different angle on how we see the natural environment, the long‐lasting impacts of militarism, and countermeasures to the climate crisis. Military bases necessitate natural resources to exist. However, it is not only those material resources that get affected. Relationships with the natural environment, an essential aspect of Indigenous epistemology, are also impacted.

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From “footprint” to relationships: Impacts of US military base on Okinawa

Oshiro

2023

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Collaborative Ryukyuan Language Documentation and Reclamation

Hammine

Billins

2022

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Traditional “endangered” approaches in linguistics tend to impose Western epistemologies of languages on marginalized Indigenous language communities such as the Ryukyus. Instead, by using a collaborative approach, we ask for a change of approach from research on the Ryukyus to research with/for the Ryukyus. This article is a reflective study of collaboration in particular cases. We aim to address the issues of relationality between communities and researchers—how can communities initiate work with like-minded linguists to suit their own needs? Thus, we respond to this question to open a conversation on why insider/outsider collaboration is essential. Using our experiences of carrying out our research in different parts of the Ryukyus reflectively, we aim to provide a practical guide for collaboration that is necessary for both the good of communities and the field of linguistics. Through continuous cooperation and collaboration, we can engage in active decolonization of the field of linguistics and language documentation. We suggest that decolonization cannot be achieved without collaborative and ethical research practices based on Indigenous epistemologies. We conclude the paper with ideas of research approaches based on Ryukyuan Indigenous epistemologies, which require a transformation from individual approaches to community-based-relational approaches.

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Learning to Speak Indigenous Languages with Compassionate Listening Practices

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From “footprint” to relationships: Impacts of US military base on Okinawa

From “footprint” to relationships: Impacts of US military base on Okinawa

Collaborative Ryukyuan Language Documentation and Reclamation

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