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Nesrin Ucarlar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance: Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey
Lund political studies, 2009Co-Authors: Nesrin UcarlarAbstract:As the most figurative asset of membership in a majority or minority and the most symbolic aspect of national authority, language is a major site of struggle for majority power and minority resistance. For the purposes of this study, which focuses on the question of Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey, the sites of struggle for majority power and minority resistance are as follows: the documents of international and European organisations on the Linguistic Rights of minorities, the impact of the modernisation and nation-state building process in Turkey on the Kurdish-speaking community and the resistance engendered by the Kurdish intelligentsia in the European diaspora and in Turkey against the majority power delimiting the Kurdish Linguistic Rights. The problematisation or de-normalisation of minority Rights and minority resistance constitutes the overall aim of this study. This problematisation is done in two parts, first of which includes a deconstructive analysis using three binary oppositions: the minority and the majority; the individual and community; and the public and private sphere with special reference to language, a significant component of nationalist discourse. This movement also forms the basis of the second part, which critically examines the relationship between power and resistance by the help of post-structuralist understanding of power. Kurdish Linguistic Rights are a recently specified aspect of the Kurdish question in Turkey, which stretches from the late Ottoman period of administrative reforms to the Republican era of the Turkish modernisation and nationalisation projects. This Linguistic aspect enables Kurdish intellectuals in Turkey to criticise Turkey’s EU harmonisation process for being delimited by the binary oppositions between the individual and community and between the public and private sphere. These criticisms are included in the critical analysis of the principle of majority in Turkey through the interviews conducted with Kurdish intellectuals in Turkey. The extent of the potential for leading emancipatory politics for the Kurdish community is also analysed through the interviews conducted with Kurdish intellectuals in the European diaspora and in Turkey. Having said this, the viewpoints of Kurdish intellectuals in the European diaspora are much more vocalised in order to analyse the effects of living in the EU territory when it comes to stimulating a distinctive, namely transformative and trans-national standpoint and resistance. In this respect, this study tries to bring up that what has not been studied before, namely to connect the approach of Kurdish intellectuals on the question of Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey with a critical analysis of the liberal nation-state philosophy and minority Rights.
Brigitta Busch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Linguistic Rights and language policy a south north dialogue
Education As Change, 2013Co-Authors: Brigitta BuschAbstract:Abstract A central thought, even a guiding principle, in Neville Alexander's work is the affirmation of the right to communicate and learn through one's own home language. In his writings, he embraced language policies that firmly reject all forms of racialisation and ethnicisation. For him, the imposition of one (national) language, along with the fragmentation of society into bounded and ethnicised Linguistic groups, can be considered an expression of hierarchical power relations. This article explores Alexander's proposals on inclusive language policies that have resonated in Europe, not only in the scientific community but also with policymakers. Today, in many countries the emphasis on a single national language risks the exclusion of large segments of the population. The focus is here on how Linguistic categorisations arising out of language ideologies can determine language policies and, more particularly, language-in-education policies. In highlighting Alexander's conviction that the role of socio...
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Linguistic Rights and language policy: A south–north dialogue
Education as Change, 2013Co-Authors: Brigitta BuschAbstract:Abstract A central thought, even a guiding principle, in Neville Alexander's work is the affirmation of the right to communicate and learn through one's own home language. In his writings, he embraced language policies that firmly reject all forms of racialisation and ethnicisation. For him, the imposition of one (national) language, along with the fragmentation of society into bounded and ethnicised Linguistic groups, can be considered an expression of hierarchical power relations. This article explores Alexander's proposals on inclusive language policies that have resonated in Europe, not only in the scientific community but also with policymakers. Today, in many countries the emphasis on a single national language risks the exclusion of large segments of the population. The focus is here on how Linguistic categorisations arising out of language ideologies can determine language policies and, more particularly, language-in-education policies. In highlighting Alexander's conviction that the role of socio...
Edrinnie Lora-kayambazinthu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Language Rights and the Role of Minority Languages in National Development in Malawi
Current Issues in Language Planning, 2003Co-Authors: Edrinnie Lora-kayambazinthuAbstract:Minority languages in both industrialised and developing countries have seldom been considered as objects of serious study. The discussion recognises that Linguistic minorities are not homogeneous in nature. Apart from their socioLinguistic settings, they also differ in their historical, cultural, and natural backgrounds which makes it difficult for one to discuss them in a single framework. However, their general discussion in this paper can be justified on the grounds of their distinctive Rights and the factors leading to their low usage. The paper addresses the question of Linguistic Rights within the classic debate of balancing liberal freedom within the demands of a capitalist economy, of equity and efficiency. Thus, the relevant perspectives include the relationship between socio-economic development, political economy and language planning. Although the arguments over Linguistic Rights have at times been theoretical and ideological, this paper attempts to contextualise the important need for recogn...
Johanne Poirier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Fédéralisme Coopératif et Droits Linguistiques AU Canada: Peut-On « Contractualiser » Le Droit des Minorités? (Cooperative Federalism and Linguistic Rights in Canada: Can We 'Contractualize' Minority Rights?)
Social Science Research Network, 2017Co-Authors: Johanne PoirierAbstract:French Abstract: Peut-on reellement contractualiser les droits linguistiques ? Cette question en appelle, en filigrane, deux autres, plus precises : « peut-on bonifier les droits par la voie contractuelle ? », et de maniere plus cruciale, sans doute, « peut-on porter atteinte a ces droits par voie contractuelle ? » Le present chapitre aborde ces questions, en procedant en trois temps. Une premiere partie survole les sources de droits linguistiques au Canada et trace un portrait de la pratique des ententes intergouvernementales relatives aux droits linguistiques. Une seconde partie analyse le role que remplissent ces ententes dans la « bonification » ou la concretisation des droits linguistiques. Enfin, une troisieme explore le risque que les gouvernements puissent, par le truchement d’ententes intergouvernementales, reduire les droits linguistiques, soit deliberement, soit « par inadvertance ». La conclusion soulignera la necessite d’une vigilance constante des groupes de defense des droits et des minorites linguistiques face aux effets souvent imprevus (mais sans doute previsibles) des mecanismes cooperatifs echafaudes par les gouvernements. English Abstract: Can Rights (Linguistic or otherwise) be “contractualised”? This question leads to two other, more specific, ones: "Can language Rights be improved by contract?” and, perhaps more crucially, "can these Rights be abridged by contract?" This paper proceeds to tackle these issues in three parts. The first looks at sources of Linguistic Rights in Canada and provides a portrait of the practice of intergovernmental agreements related to the implementation of these Rights. A second part analyzes the role that these agreements play in “improving” Linguistic Rights. Finally, the third part explores the risk that governments may, through intergovernmental cooperation, limit the scope of Linguistic protection, either deliberately or "inadvertently". The conclusion underscores the need for continued vigilance by advocacy groups and Linguistic minorities over the often unforeseen (but probably predictable) effects of cooperative mechanisms developed by governments.
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federalisme cooperatif et droits linguistiques au canada peut on contractualiser le droit des minorites cooperative federalism and Linguistic Rights in canada can we contractualize minority Rights
Social Science Research Network, 2017Co-Authors: Johanne PoirierAbstract:French Abstract: Peut-on reellement contractualiser les droits linguistiques ? Cette question en appelle, en filigrane, deux autres, plus precises : « peut-on bonifier les droits par la voie contractuelle ? », et de maniere plus cruciale, sans doute, « peut-on porter atteinte a ces droits par voie contractuelle ? » Le present chapitre aborde ces questions, en procedant en trois temps. Une premiere partie survole les sources de droits linguistiques au Canada et trace un portrait de la pratique des ententes intergouvernementales relatives aux droits linguistiques. Une seconde partie analyse le role que remplissent ces ententes dans la « bonification » ou la concretisation des droits linguistiques. Enfin, une troisieme explore le risque que les gouvernements puissent, par le truchement d’ententes intergouvernementales, reduire les droits linguistiques, soit deliberement, soit « par inadvertance ». La conclusion soulignera la necessite d’une vigilance constante des groupes de defense des droits et des minorites linguistiques face aux effets souvent imprevus (mais sans doute previsibles) des mecanismes cooperatifs echafaudes par les gouvernements. English Abstract: Can Rights (Linguistic or otherwise) be “contractualised”? This question leads to two other, more specific, ones: "Can language Rights be improved by contract?” and, perhaps more crucially, "can these Rights be abridged by contract?" This paper proceeds to tackle these issues in three parts. The first looks at sources of Linguistic Rights in Canada and provides a portrait of the practice of intergovernmental agreements related to the implementation of these Rights. A second part analyzes the role that these agreements play in “improving” Linguistic Rights. Finally, the third part explores the risk that governments may, through intergovernmental cooperation, limit the scope of Linguistic protection, either deliberately or "inadvertently". The conclusion underscores the need for continued vigilance by advocacy groups and Linguistic minorities over the often unforeseen (but probably predictable) effects of cooperative mechanisms developed by governments.
Jacques Maurais - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Regional majority languages, language planning, and Linguistic Rights
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1997Co-Authors: Jacques MauraisAbstract:This article analyzes the legal protection of languages from the point of view of "regional majority languages/' t hat is, languages of populations who, though a majority in their historic territory (where they may nevertheless be experiencing some form of assimilation), are minorities at the national level (French in Quebec, Catalan in Catalonia, andmany languages in the pre-1991 Soviet Union). Only the protection of aboriginal Linguistic minorities seems to have been considered so far at the international level. The article proposes some socioLinguistic principles related to the legal protection of languages that can be gatheredfrom the Canadian experience, the present Situation of aboriginal languages and Quebec's experience of language planning. Some recent foreign experiences of legal language planning are also taken into account (mainly Spain and the countries of the former US S R). Comments are also made on a draft Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights that is currently circulating. The new Linguistic Situation arisingfrom the suppression ofbarriers tofree trade is briefly considered as in some cases language can be considered as a nontariff barrier tofree trade: minority languages would be most vulnerable to such legal interpretations. The opinion on
