“Jaqueline Urla has written an extraordinary book. The result of 25 years of continuous engagement with the Basque language movement and its struggle to normalize the standing and use of the Basque language, Euskara, the book is a unique contribution to our knowledge of social, political, cultural, and economic mechanisms involved in minority language revival.”—The Council for European Studies
— The Council for European Studies
“Reclaiming Basque is an excellent study of a culture that seeks its own voice, free from the banners of France and Spain.”—The Midwest Book Review
— The Midwest Book Review
“In this superb ethnographic work of the heart and mind, Urla brings Basque language activism into new focus, analyzing it principally within Foucault’s framework of governmentality, the management of the social and the self that arose with modernity.”—Kathrine A. Woolard, University of California
— Kathrine A. Woolard, University of California