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Tables of Contents for Language and Minority Rights
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xii
 
Introduction
1
2
Language loss: a question of biology or power?
3
2
Nation-states, nationalism and nation-state congruence
5
2
Nationalism, ethnicity and language
7
2
Overview
9
8
Prospects for change
17
1
Notes
18
1
The denunciation of ethnicity
19
33
Academic denunciations of ethnicity
20
3
The academic rehabilitation of ethnicity?
23
2
Ethnicity and modernity
25
3
Ethnicity as primordial
28
2
Situational ethnicity
30
5
Instrumental ethnicity
35
3
Hybridity: the postmodernist politics of identity
38
1
Limits to the social construction of ethnicity
39
4
Finding common ground - ethnicity as habitus
43
5
Ethnies
48
3
Notes
51
1
Nationalism and its discontents
52
39
Linguistic nationalism
57
2
The will to nationhood
59
2
The modern nation
61
3
The modernists
64
4
Limits of the modernist account
68
2
Ethnicist approaches to nationalism
70
10
Dominant ethnies
80
2
The construction of sociological minorities
82
7
Notes
89
2
Liberal theory, multiculturalism and minority rights
91
37
The pluralist dilemma
93
3
Defending liberal democracy
96
6
Critiquing liberal democracy
102
8
Rethinking liberal democracy
110
16
Notes
126
2
Language, identity and minority rights
128
39
Language and identity
129
1
Identity in language
130
2
Language and culture
132
3
Language, culture and politics
135
2
Language decline: the death of Irish?
137
4
Language revival: flogging a dead horse?
141
4
Reevaluating language shift
145
8
Linguistic markets and symbolic violence
153
3
Vive la France: the construction of la langue legitime
156
7
Legitimating and institutionalising minority languages
163
2
Notes
165
2
Language, education and minority rights
167
31
Educating for the majority
170
7
Educating for the minority
177
3
Minority-group responses to language-education policies
180
2
Bridging the gap between policy and practice
182
2
Minority-language and education rights in international law
184
9
The crux of majority opinion
193
3
Notes
196
2
English hegemony and its critics: North American debates
198
38
Rule Britannia: English in the ascendant
198
6
`Doesn't anyone speak English around here?: the US `English Only' movement
204
20
Contrasting Quebec
224
8
A question of (ethnolinguistic) democracy
232
2
Notes
234
2
Extending ethnolinguistic democracy in Europe
236
37
A multilingual European Union?
237
2
Catalonia: the quest for political and linguistic autonomy
239
13
Wales: the development of a bilingual state in a `forgotten' nation
252
20
Notes
272
1
Indigenous rights: self-determination, language and education
273
34
Indigenous peoples, self-determination and international law
276
4
Indigenous peoples and national law
280
4
Indigenous language and education rights
284
1
Aotearoa/New Zealand: a tale of two ethnicities
285
7
Language, culture and education in Aotearoa/New Zealand
292
7
Relative autonomy and community control: Te Kohanga Reo and Kura Kaupapa Maori
299
7
Notes
306
1
Minority languages and the nation-state
307
10
Addressing constructivism
308
3
Moving forward: from principles to practice
311
5
Notes
316
1
Bibliography
317
41
Index
358