By Alexandre Duchêne
The e-book is a call for participation to a genealogical knowing of the ideological and discursive techniques that experience emerged out of the rules of linguistic minorities concerns inside of a global context and, extra accurately, on the United international locations. It highlights the contradictions, limits and probabilities within the elaboration of foreign measures in the universalist framework of human rights. The e-book additionally emphasizes the paradoxes among nationwide pursuits and the elaboration of a global group - paradoxes within which minority matters essentially query the homogeneity of the country. It exhibits that regardless of the shift from nationwide areas to overseas ones, the fears of realms for linguistic minorities stay. eventually, the e-book unearths the significance of the copy of the pursuits of geographical regions inside of a global association and the replica of energy during the criminal administration and rules of minority rights usually, and people of linguistic minorities in particular.
Through its presentation of the background of the United international locations, its imaginative and prescient of the safety of linguistic minorities, the underlying ideologies that experience emerged, in addition to the bounds and chances of motion, the e-book contributes to a greater knowing of the complexity of the safety of linguistic minorities and the function of language ideologies inside a world context.
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Ideologies across Nations: The Construction of Linguistic Minorities at the United Nations (Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]) by Alexandre Duchêne
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