Ideologies across nations. The construction of linguistic minorities and the United Nations

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ID12890508
AuthorsAdriana Patiño-Santos (0000-0003-1950-3954, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume4
Issue3
Pages345-349
Publication date2009-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Multicultural Discourses (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-7143 • E-ISSN: 1747-6615
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17447140903461597
OpenAlexW1990961426
LanguageEN
References cited12

Review of: Ideologies across nations. The construction of linguistic minorities and the United Nations, by Alexander Duchêne, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2008, 282 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-020584-8. Alexander Duchêne's Ideologies across nations. This complex road is marked with a set of sub-histories full of tensions, paradoxes, and decisions taken in different historical moments of the twentieth century by all the participants (i.e. the member states that participate in the UN), materialized in a set of debates supported, in the end, by ideological positions: tensions between national interests and the construction of an international community that, according to him, reveal, on the one hand, the threat minorities represent for the homogeneity of a nation-state (as envisaged by western societies) and, on the other, ‘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.’ (Duchêne 2008, 3)

Ideology · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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