Challenging Language Inequality

Challenging Language Inequality

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Challenging Language Inequality episodes

  • Justicia para los pueblos originarios con Ely Gonzalez

    Elisabet González es una figura clave en la defensa de los derechos lingüísticos en el Chaco, Argentina. Como funcionaria judicial indígena, acompaña a personas que hablan wichí, qom y moqoit en procesos legales donde el idioma suele ser una barrera. Su trabajo visibiliza la necesidad de garantizar acceso a la justicia en todas las lenguas y muestra cómo la traducción puede convertirse en una herramienta de dignidad y protección comunitaria. Su voz refleja las luchas y la organización de los pueblos indígenas frente a la desigualdad lingüística.

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    26 min
  • Voices from El Chaco: Indigenous Fight for Equality

    Indigenous rights activists from Argentina’s El Chaco region share how they fight language inequality through education, media, and activism—linking language to land, rights, and visibility. Part of Radio ARA’s ReDes_Ling series.

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    51 min
  • Literacy as Resistance: Insights from Colombia

    Colombian researcher Daniel Rudas explores how rural communities use writing, drawing, and storytelling as tools of resistance—challenging narrow definitions of literacy and reclaiming voice. Part of Radio ARA’s Language Inequality series.

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    11 min
  • Language Inequality in Argentina’s Migration Context

    Researchers from Argentina’s CELES-UNSAM reveal how Indigenous and migrant languages face systemic exclusion, and how communities resist through grassroots education, storytelling, and language activism. Part of Radio ARA’s Redes_Ling series.

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    44 min
  • How interpreters help reducing Inequalities with Ester Saiz

    Interpreter and researcher Esther Saíz highlights how language access affects power, from hospitals to politics. She supports grassroots efforts for language rights and community interpreting across Latin America.

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    15 min
  • Challenging Language Inequality with Laura Villa Galán

    Sociolinguist Laura Villa Galán explains how Spanish language hierarchies reflect power, not merit, and calls for greater inclusion of marginalized varieties in education, media, and public discourse.

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    15 min