Ideologies across Nations : : The Construction of Linguistic Minorities at the United Nations / / Alexandre Duchêne.

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 possi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] , 23
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.)
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Table of 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