I present two case studies from language/linguistic angles. Starting with “literary land claims” (Fee 2015), which frame literature as a tool for colonial nation building, I will bring a clear case of “bad tribalism”, to the table, followed by a case of “less bad” tribalism. Both bring into focus potential issues with cases of “good tribalism”, e.g. the foregrounding of Indigenous ways of knowing as currently employed (e.g. Justice 2018, Younging et al. 2025). Universalism as an over-arching concept (we all are living beings) (Neiman 2024) will have something to do with a resolution, as will language and how we, as Klemperer (1947) or Weinreich (1946) exhort us, use and do not use language.
Politiche e diritti linguistichi
Literary land claims, linguistic land claims and the “inseparability of land and culture”: on “good” tribalism, “bad” tribalism, and universalism, by Stefan Dollinger 2025, Endnotes (UBC English Language & Literatures)
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