Language Rights and Political Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Rights and Political Theory write by Will Kymlicka. This book was released on 2003-05-29. Language Rights and Political Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disputes over language policy are a persistent feature of the political life of many states around the world. Multilingual countries in the West such as Belgium, Spain, Switzerland and Canada have long histories of conflict over language rights. In many countries in Eastern Europe and the Third World, efforts to construct common institutions and a shared identity have been severely complicated by linguistic diversity. Indigenous languages around the world are in danger of disappearing. Even in the United States, where English is widely accepted as the language of public life, the linguistic rights of Spanish-speakers are hotly-contested. Not surprisingly, therefore, political theorists have started to examine questions of language policy, and how they relate to broader issues of democracy, justice and rights. This volume provides the reader with an up-to-date overview of the emerging debates over the role of language rights and linguistic diversity within political theory. It brings together many of the leading political theorists who work in the field, together with some of the most important social scientists, with the aim of exploring how political theorists can conceptualize issues of language rights and contribute to public debates on language policy. Questions of language policy are not only of enormous political importance in many countries, but also help to illuminate some of the most important debates in contemporary political theory, including questions of citizenship, deliberative democracy, nationalism, multiculturalism, identity politics, group rights, the liberal-communitarian debate, and so on. The thirteen essays in this volume highlight both the empirical constraints and normative complexities of language policy, and identify the important challenges and opportunities that linguistic diversity raises for contemporary political theory.
Language and Minority Rights
Language and Minority Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and Minority Rights write by Stephen May. This book was released on 2013-06-17. Language and Minority Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second edition addresses new theoretical and empirical developments since its initial publication, including the burgeoning influence of globalization and the relentless rise of English as the current world language. May’s broad position, however, remains largely unchanged. He argues that the causes of many of the language-based conflicts in the world today still lie with the nation-state and its preoccupation with establishing a 'common' language and culture via mass education. The solution, he suggests, is to rethink nation-states in more culturally and linguistically plural ways while avoiding, at the same time, essentializing the language-identity link. This edition, like the first, adopts a wide interdisciplinary framework, drawing on sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, sociology, political theory, education and law. It also includes new discussions of cosmopolitanism, globalization, the role of English, and language and mobility, highlighting the ongoing difficulties faced by minority language speakers in the world today.
Language Policy and Political Theory
Language Policy and Political Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Policy and Political Theory write by Thomas Ricento. This book was released on 2015-03-10. Language Policy and Political Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary debates on immigration, multiculturalism, nationalism, and linguistic rights often find language policy scholars and political philosophers at odds. This book aims to assess the obstacles and build bridges between scholars of language policy and political theory with chapters by Stephen May, Ronald Schmidt, Jr., Daniel Weinstock, Thomas Ricento, Yael Peled and Peter Ives. Along with an introduction by the editors, the chapters map out the contours of the debates and potential contributions that political theory can make to language policy and vice-versa. The book offers an appraisal of current research, areas of contestation and a framework for future interdisciplinary inquiry on the complex interface between language, power and ethics. This collection will be useful for scholars from diverse disciplinary perspectives with interests in contemporary societal debates in which language plays an important—even central—role. Previously published in Language Policy, Volume 13, Issue 4, 2014
The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe write by Anthony Pagden. This book was released on 1987. The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays on the political 'languages' of natural law, classical republicanism, commerce and political science.
Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples write by Duncan Ivison. This book was released on 2000-10-12. Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 2001 book focuses on the problem of justice for indigenous peoples and the ways in which this poses key questions for political theory: the nature of sovereignty, the grounds of national identity and the limits of democratic theory. It includes chapters by leading political theorists and indigenous scholars from Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Canada and the United States. One of the strengths of this book is the manner in which it shows how the different historical circumstances of colonization in these countries nevertheless raise common problems and questions for political theory. It examines ways in which political theory has contributed to the past subjugation and continuing disadvantage faced by indigenous peoples, while also seeking to identify resources in contemporary political thought that can assist the 'decolonisation' of relations between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.
