Ideologies across nations : the construction of linguistic minorities at the United Nations / by Alexandre Duchene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duchêne, Alexandre.

Series:

Language, power, and social process ; 23.

Language, power, and social process, 1861-4175 ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic minorities--New York (State)--New York.

Linguistic minorities.

United Nations--Language policy.

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book is an invitation to a genealogical understanding of the ideological and discursive processes that have emerged out of the regulation of linguistic minorities issues within an international context and, more precisely, at the United Nations. It highlights the contradictions, limits and possibilities in the elaboration of international measures within the universalist framework of human rights. The book also emphasizes the paradoxes between national interests and the elaboration of an international community - paradoxes in which minority issues fundamentally question the homogeneity of the state. It shows that despite the shift from national spaces to international ones, the fears of nation-states for linguistic minorities remain. Finally, the book reveals the importance of the reproduction of the interests of nation-states within an international organization and the reproduction of power through the legal management and regulation of minority rights in general, and those of linguistic minorities in particular. Through its presentation of the history of the United Nations, its vision of the protection of linguistic minorities, the underlying ideologies that have emerged, as well as the limits and possibilities of action, the book contributes to a better understanding of the complexity of the protection of linguistic minorities and the role of language ideologies within an international context.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The protection of linguistic minorities as a field of inquiry

Chapter 2. Discursive spaces and the protection of minorities: historical, institutional and ideological conditions of knowledge production

Chapter 3. Production of discourse and institutional constraints: the search for objectivity

Chapter 4. State divergences and the principle of universality: a protection through absence

Chapter 5. Ambivalence, particularism and the reproduction of state interests: a limited protection

Chapter 6. Institutional continuity, the management of paradoxes and state consensus: a controlled protection

Chapter 7. Conclusion

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-279) and index.

ISBN:

9786611993528

9781281993526

1281993522

9783110208313

3110208318

OCLC:

437113304