Language and minority rights : ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language / / Stephen May

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911108595103321
• Autore: May Stephen <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY, : Routledge, 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-83706-X; 1-283-58941-9; 9786613901866; 1-136-83707-8; 0-203-83254-X; 9780203832547
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Classificazione: EDU005000EDU020000FOR007000
• Disciplina: 306.44/9; 306.449
• Soggetti: Language and languages - Political aspects; Linguistic minorities; Ethnicity; Nationalism; Sociolinguistics; Language and education
• 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. [361]-410) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: LANGUAGE AND MINORITY RIGHTS ETHNICITY, NATIONALISM AND THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Introduction; Language ecology; The politics of language; The nation-state model; Linguistic human rights; Critical sociolinguistics; Overview; Prospects for change; 1 The denunciation of ethnicity; Academic denunciations of ethnicity; Resituating ethnicity in the era of globalization; Ethnicity and modernity; Ethnicity as primordial; Ethnicity as constructed; Ethnicity as intentional; Hybridity: the postmodernist politics of identityLimits to the social construction of ethnicity; Finding common ground - ethnicity, habitus ; and field; Ethnies; 2 Nationalism and its discontents; Terminology; Linguistic nationalism; The will to nationhood; The modern (nation-)state; The modernists; Limits of the modernist account; Ethno-symbolic accounts of nationalism; Dominant ethnies; The construction of sociological minorities; 3 Liberalism and multiculturalism; The pluralist dilemma; Defending liberal democracy; Critiquing liberal democracy; The cosmopolitan alternative; Rethinking liberal democracy4 Language, identity, rights and representation; Language and identity; Identity in language; Language and culture; Language, culture and politics; Language decline: the death of Irish?; 'Resigned language realism': is language revival just flogging a dead horse?; Re-evaluating language shift; Linguistic markets and symbolic violence; Vive la France: the construction of la langue légitime; Legitimating and institutionalizing minority languages; 5 Language, education and minority rights; Educating for the majority; Educating for the minority; Minority group responses to language education policiesBridging the gap between policy and practice; Minority language and education rights in international law; 6 Monolingualism, mobility and the pre-eminence of English; English as global lingua franca; The normative power of monolingualism; The problem with history; The problem with instrumentalism; The problem with bilingual education; 'Doesn't anyone speak English around here?' The US 'English Only' movement; 7 The rise of regionalism: reinstating minority languages; Quebec: safeguarding French in a sea of English; Catalonia: the quest for political and linguistic autonomyWales: the development of a bilingual state in a 'forgotten' nation; 8 Indigenous rights: self-determination, language and education; Indigenous peoples, self-determination and international law; Indigenous peoples and national law; Indigenous language and education rights; Aotearoa/New Zealand: a tale of two ethnicities; 9 Reimagining the nation-state; Addressing constructionism; Tolerability and the crux of majority opinion; Polyethnic language and education rights; The challenge of multiculturalism; Toward a more pluralist conception of language rights
• Sommario/riassunto: "The first edition of Language and Minority Rights, an outstanding interdisciplinary analysis of the questions and issues concerning minority language rights in modern nation-states, is now regarded as a key benchmark in the field of language rights and language policy. Its core arguments have shaped the discussion of language rights over the last decade. This new edition substantially revises and updates this provocative and groundbreaking book, addressing 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. Stephen 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 new edition, like the first, adopts a wide interdisciplinary framework, drawing on sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, sociology, political theory, education and law"--

Imposing values : an essay on liberalism and regulation / / N. Scott Arnold

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911106337903321
• Autore: Arnold N. Scott
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-19-045202-1; 0-19-979568-1; 1-281-99856-7; 9786611998561; 0-19-970529-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 486 pages)
• Collana: Oxford political philosophy
• Disciplina: 320.51; 320.513
• Soggetti: Liberalism; Deregulation; Free enterprise
• 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. 453-476) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Rights, public goods, and externalities -- Two views of the proper role of government -- Fundamental rights -- Public goods -- Externalities -- Private and public property -- Ownership of productive assets -- Tax policy -- Transfer programs -- Liberal conceptions of private property -- Ownership of productive assets and personal property : some traditional incidents -- The right to manage -- The right of disposition -- Ownership of labor and human capital -- Self-ownership -- The modern liberal regulatory agenda -- Economic regulation -- Noneconomic regulation and the modern liberal regulatory agenda -- Common ground arguments -- Presuppositions of a market economy -- Fundamental rights and negative externalities -- Public goods problems and public goods arguments -- Public goods and collective values -- Regulation and collective values -- Regulatory public goods -- The private provision of regulatory public goods -- Nonmedical consumer product safety -- Occupational licensure -- Land use regulation -- Regulation of the employment relation -- Conversion ; arguments : employment law -- Conversion arguments -- Minimum wage and overtime pay -- Equal pay for equal work -- Family and medical leave -- Regulation of collective bargaining -- Conversion arguments : antidiscrimination law -- Discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, and national origin -- Sex discrimination -- Age discrimination -- Discrimination on the basis of disability -- Conversion arguments : health and safety regulation -- Occupational safety and health regulation -- Consumer product health and safety regulation : the Food and Drug Administration -- Nonmedical consumer product health and safety regulation -- Occupational licensure -- Conversion arguments : land use regulation -- The Endangered Species Act -- Section 404 of the Clean Water Act -- Imposing values -- Deciding on the proper scope of government -- Public justification -- The problem of faction and its relevance -- The transparency requirement -- Applications -- The antidiscrimination regulatory regime -- The occupational safety and health regulatory regime -- The medical products regulatory regime.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Imposing Values' provides an even-handed characterization of the differences between modern liberalism and classical liberalism about the proper scope of government. It also systematically and comprehensively discusses arguments for and against various regulatory regimes favored by modern liberals and opposed by classical liberals.