1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782765703321

Autore

Duchêne Alexandre

Titolo

Ideologies across nations [[electronic resource] ] : the construction of linguistic minorities at the United Nations / / by Alexandre Duchêne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008

ISBN

1-281-99352-2

9786611993528

3-11-020831-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

341.4/85

Soggetti

Linguistic minorities - New York (State) - New York

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300541303321

Titolo

Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical Structures—AVMS-2017 : Proceedings of the 14th AVMS Conference, Timisoara, Romania, May 25–26, 2017 / / edited by Nicolae Herisanu, Vasile Marinca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-69823-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 420 p. 235 illus., 181 illus. in color.)

Collana

Springer Proceedings in Physics, , 1867-4941 ; ; 198

Disciplina

620.3

Soggetti

Acoustics

Acoustical engineering

Multibody systems

Vibration

Mechanics, Applied

Mathematical physics

Engineering Acoustics

Multibody Systems and Mechanical Vibrations

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Mathematical Methods in Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a collection of papers presented at Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical Structures 2017 – AVMS 2017 – highlighting the current trends and state-of-the-art developments in the field. It covers a broad range of topics, such as noise and vibration control, noise and vibration generation and propagation, the effects of noise and vibration, condition monitoring and vibration testing, modeling, prediction and simulation of noise and vibration, environmental and occupational noise and vibration, noise and vibration attenuators, as well as biomechanics and bioacoustics. The book also presents analytical, numerical and experimental techniques for evaluating linear and non-linear noise and vibration problems (including strong nonlinearity). It is primarily intended for academics, researchers and professionals, as well as PhD students in various fields of the acoustics and vibration of mechanical structures.