Perry Gilmore

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Books

• Gilmore, P. (2016). Kisisi (Our Language): The Story of Colin and Sadiki. Malden: Mass: Wiley-Blackwell.
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  Kisisi was released in October/November 2015 and has a 2016 copyright date.

Chapters

• Gilmore, P., O'Connor, B., & Zentz, L. (2016). Taking Language Fun Seriously. In Richard Ruiz: Essays on Language Planning and Bilingual Policies. Multilingual Matters.
• Gilmore, P. (2014). Kisisi (Our Language): Two Children Invent a New Swahili Pidgin Language in Postcolonial Kenya. In Challenges of Today - Opportunities for Tomorrow: Promoting Intercultural Dialogue on Language, Planning and Policy. Slovenia: Slovene National Commission for UNESCO.
• Gilmore, P., & Wyman, L. (2013). An Ethnographic Long Look: Language and Literacy Over Time and Space in Alaska Native Communities. In International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture(pp 121-138). London: Wiley Blackwell.
• Gilmore, P. (2011). Language Ideologies, Ethnography and Ethnology: New Directions in Anthropological Approaches to Language Policy. In Ethnography and Language Policy. New York: Routledge.
• Gilmore, P. (2010). Cultural Diversity in Higher Education: Insights from an Alaskan Case Study. In Shared Vision: Intercultural Dialogue in the Search for Global Paradigms to Conserve Linguistic and Cultural Diversity(pp 151-198). Ljubljana, Slovenia: Slovene National Commission for UNESCO.
• Gilmore, P. (2009). Our Language: A Friendship that Transcended Linguistic and Cultural Borders. In The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion(pp 546-547). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Gilmore, P. (2009). What do we know about the discourse patterns of diverse students in multiple settings?. In Handbook of Research of Literacy Instruction: Issues of Diversity, Policy, and Equity(pp 55-76). New York: Guilford Press.
• Gilmore, P., & McDermott, R. (2009). Reading and Reigning. In Defying Convention, Inventing the Future in Literacy(pp 76-95). Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Gilmore, P., & Smith, D. M. (2005). Seizing Academic Power: Indigenous Subaltern Voices and Counter Narratives in Higher Education. In Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling(pp 67 - 88). Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Gilmore, P., Smith, D. M., & Kairaiuak, L. A. (2004). Resisting Diversity: An Alaskan Case of Institutional Struggle. In Off White: Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance(pp 273- 283). New York: Routledge.

Journals/Publications

• Gilmore, P. (2017). Ethnography with Love and Duende: The Promise of Ethnography in a Democratic Society. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 48(4), 349 - 353.
• Gilmore, P. (2011). We call it "our language": A children's Swahili pidgin transforms social and symbolic order on a remote Hillside in up-country Kenya. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 42(4), 370-392.
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  Abstract: This study describes a rare Swahili pidgin created by two five-year-old boys, one American and one African. The discussion examines the linguistic and social factors affecting the "origins, maintenance, change and loss" of their language and the place it created for their friendship. This place, constructed by and through language, both held and projected their new identities, interrupting the harsh hegemony of colonial racism and inequality that surrounded them. © 2011 by the American Anthropological Association.
• Gilmore, P. (2008). Engagement on the backroads: Insights for anthropology and education. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 39(2), 109-116.
• Gilmore, P., & McDermott, R. (2006). "And this is how you shall ask": Linguistics, anthropology, and education in the work of David Smith. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 37(2), 199-211.
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  Abstract: This article celebrates the life and work of David M. Smith, former Council on Anthropology and Education president and founder of the University of Pennsylania Ethnography in Education Research Forum, tracing his contributions to the fields of linguistics, anthropology, and education through the dual lens of his ten research principles and Walt Whitman's life advice. David Smith's pioneering efforts helped push disciplinary boundaries and generate innovations in sociolinguistics, pidgin and creole linguistics, ethnography and education, sociocultural studies of literacy, and Indigenous studies. © 2006 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved.
• Gilmore, P. (2005). Introduction. Anthropology and Education, 36(1), 1-7.
• Dementi-Leonard, B., & Gilmore, P. (1999). Language revitalization and identity in social context: A community-based Athabascan language preservation project in western interior Alaska. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 30(1), 37-55.
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  Abstract: This study documents a language planning effort funded by an Administration for Native Americans Grant to the Tanana Chiefs Conference, a regional nonprofit tribal organization. The language revitalization project focuses on western interior Alaska and encompasses five traditional Athabascan languages with few remaining speakers. Project discussions included options for language planning, training activities, and educational program and materials development that would enhance language survival. Three dominant project themes are identified and discussed. They are (1) critique and resistance, (2) self-determination and activism, and (3) collaboration and leadership.

Others

• Gilmore, P. (2016, January). Kisisi (Our Language): The Story of Colin and Sadiki. Contemporary Art and Sociology (e-magazine).
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  Invited essay summarizing my new book of the same title.