Language Rights

Research on Language Rights has produced an enormous—and unwieldy—corpus of literature. Such work often has limitations because scholars from different disciplinary traditions have seldom coordinated their concerns or integrated the conceptual traditions of particular fields. To enable researchers and advanced students to make sense of this vast literature, and the disparate scholarly approaches, Routledge announces Language Rights, a new title in its Critical Concepts in Language Studies series. In four volumes, the set draws on a wide range of disciplines, including language policy, political theory, education, law, philosophy, anthropology, economics, minority studies, deaf studies, and Indigenous cosmologies. The editors have assembled both normative texts and studies of their practical applications over the past century in a wide range of countries, as well as more diverse interventions and interpretations. Volume I (‘Language Rights, Past and Present: From Minority Rights to Linguistic Human Rights’) presents some of the basic concepts in language rights and traces developments from treaties and national constitutions to human rights principles, and conditions for the maintenance of languages. Volume II (‘Multilingualism, Education, and Language Rights Granted or Denied: Policies and Politics’) explores the tensions between homogenizing nation states and the status of indigenous and minority languages in education. Volume III in the collection (‘Language Rights and Endangered Languages’) brings together the best thinking on recent developments in language and cultural revitalization through community mobilization around language rights, especially in education, the preconditions for their success, their relationship to land rights and self-determination, and state responses to demands for language rights. Finally, Volume IV (‘Language Rights: Global and Regional Integration and Diversity Maintenance’) assesses ongoing trends of regional and global integration and questions the prospects for the world’s languages in the light of economic and cultural constraints, and the weaknesses of the international human rights system. With newly written, comprehensive introductions to each volume, and to the collection as a whole, Language Rights is destined to be welcomed as a vital research and pedagogic resource.

Language Rights: Critical Concepts in Language Studies Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson (eds) Volume 1. Language Rights: Principles, Enactment, Application Table of Contents Acknowledgements General Introduction Introduction - Volume 1. 1. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson, ‘Linguistic Human Rights, Past and Present’, in Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson (eds.), in collaboration with Mart Rannut Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination Contributions to the Sociology of Language 67 (Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994), pp. 71-110. 2. Joseph P. Gromacki, ‘The Protection of Language Rights in International Human Rights Law: A Proposed Draft Declaration of Linguistic Rights’, Virginia Journal of International Law 32, 471, 1992, 515-579. 3. League of Nations, extracts from Documents Relating to the Protection of Minorities by the League of Nations (Published in accordance with the Council Resolution of June 13th, 1929), Special Supplement No. 73. pp. 47-48. 4. Francesco Capotorti, Study of the Rights of Persons Belonging to Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (New York: United Nations). Extract from Annex II, p. 108. 5. Amartya Sen, ‘Rights, Laws and Language’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 31, 3, 2011, 437-453. 6. Juan Cobarrubias, ‘Status Planning, Ethical Problems and Language Rights’, extract from ‘Ethical Issues in Status Planning’, in Juan Cobarrubias and Joshua A. Fishman (eds), Progress in Language Planning: International Perspectives (Berlin: Mouton, 1983), pp. 67-85. 7. Debi Prasanna Pattanayak, ‘Monolingual Myopia and the Petals of the Indian Lotus: Do Many Languages Divide or Unite a Nation?’, in Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Jim Cummins (eds.), Minority Education: From Shame to Sruggle (Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 1988), pp. 379-389. 8. Heinz Kloss, ‘Language Rights of Immigrant Groups’, International Migration Review 5, 1971, 250-268. 9. Clifford Geertz, extracts from The Interpretation of Cultures (Hammersmith, London: Fontana Press, 1973), pp. 240-243; 255-264. 10. Lachman M. Khubchandani, ‘"Minority" Cultures and Their Communication Rights’, in Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson (eds.), in collaboration with Mart Rannut, Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination (Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994), pp. 305-315. 11. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Conclusion from The Ethnic Question: Conflicts, Development, and Human Rights (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1990), pp. 71-73. 12. Alan Phillips, ‘Historical Background of the Declaration’, in Ugo Caruso and Rainer Hofmann (eds.), The United Nations Declaration on Minorities: An Academic Account on the Occasion of its 20th Anniversary (1992-2012) Studies in International Minority and Group Rights, volume 9, (Leiden/Boston: Brill Nijhoff, 2015), pp. 3-18. 13. Gudmundur Alfredsson, ‘Minority Rights and the United Nations’, in Ugo Caruso and Rainer Hofmann (eds.), The United Nations Declaration on Minorities: An Academic Account on the Occasion of its 20th Anniversary (1992-2012) Studies in International Minority and Group Rights, volume 9 (Leiden/Boston: Brill Nijhoff, 2015), pp. 19-45. 14. Robert Dunbar, ‘The Uneasy Relationship between Language Issues and Socio-Economic Participation: Linguistically Sensitive Approaches to Participation’, in Kristin Henrard (ed.), The Interrelation between the Right to Identity of Minorities and Their Socio-economic Participation, Studies in International Minority and Group Rights, Volume 2, (Leiden and Boston: Brill/ Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013), pp. 205-226. 15. Ruth Rubio-Marín, ‘Language Rights: Exploring the Competing Rationales’, in Will Kymlicka and Alan Patten (eds.), Language Rights and Political Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 52-79. 16. Bruno De Witte, ‘Conclusion: A Legal Perspective’, in Sergij Vilfan (ed.), in collaboration with Gudmund Sandvik and Lode Wils, Ethnic Groups and Language Rights. Comparative Studies on Governments and Non-Dominant Ethnic Groups in Europe 1850-1940 Volume 3, (Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth & New York: European Science Foundation & New York University Press, 1993), pp. 303-314. 17. Bruno De Witte, ‘Language Rights: The Interaction between Domestic and European Developments’, in Anne Lise Kjær and Silvia Adamo (eds.), Linguistic Diversity and European Democracy (Farnham & Burlington; Ashgate, 2011), pp. 167-188. 18. Kristin Henrard, ‘Language and the Administration of Justice: The International Framework’, in Kas Deprez, Theo di Plessis and Lut Teck (eds.), Multilingualism, the Judiciary and Security Services (Pretoria: Van Schaik, 2001), pp. 15-29. Henrard, Kristin (2015). Update: ‘Language and the Administration of Justice: The International Framework’. 19. Richard Vogler, ‘Lost in Translation: Language Rights for Defendants in European Criminal Proceedings’, in Stefano Ruggeri (ed.), Human Rights in European Criminal Law (Cham: Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2015), pp. 95-109. 20. François Grin, ‘Combining Immigrant and Autochtonous Language Rights: A Territorial Approach to Multilingualism’, in Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson (eds.), in collaboration with Mart Rannut Linguistic Human Rights. Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 67 (Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994), pp. 31-48. Volume 2. Language Policy in Education: Violations or Rights for All? Introduction - Volume 2 Table of Contents Acknowledgements 21. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Dunbar, Indigenous Children’s Education as Linguistic Genocide and a Crime Against Humanity? A Global View. Gáldu Cála. Journal of Indigenous Peoples' Rights No 1, 2010. 22. Kristin Henrard, ‘International Perspectives on Minorities' Rights and Mother Tongue Education: Equality, Identity, and Integration’, newly written for this volume, 2015. 23. Stephen May, ‘Justifying Educational Language Rights’, Review of Research in Education (RRE) [Language Diversity and Language Policy and Politics in Education] 38, 1, 2014, 215-241. 24. M. K. Gandhi, extract from M. K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj. A Critical Edition. Annotated, translated & edited by Suresh Sharma and Tridip Suhrud (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 1910), pp. 84-87. 25. Eve Mumewa D. Fesl, extracts from Conned! A Koorie perspective (St Lucian, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1993), pp. xiv, 183-184. 26. Rabindranath Tagore, Extracts from My Reminiscences (New Delhi: Rupa & Co, 1992), pp. 41, 53, 132. First published in Bengali in 1911 as Jibansmriti, and in English by Macmillan & Co. in 1917. 27. Michael Meeuwis, ‘Language Legislation in the Belgian Colonial Charter of 1908: At Textual-historical Analysis’, Language Policy 14, 2015, 49-65. 28. Alexei A. Leontiev, ‘Linguistic Human Rights and Educational Policy in Russia’, in Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson (eds.), in collaboration with Mart Rannut, Linguistic Human Rights. Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 67 (Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994), pp. 63-70. 29. Tiina Saaresranta, ‘Education in Pursuit of the Development Dream? Effects of Schooling on Indigenous Development and Rights in Bolivia’, Nordic Journal of Human Rights 32, 4, 2014, 352-371. 30. Béatrice Cabau, ‘Language Policy/Planning and Linguistic Rights in Sweden’, International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 4, 2, 2014, 75-97. 31. E. Annamalai, ‘Conflict between Law and Language Policy in Education: Deliberations of Indian Supreme Court’, 2015. 32. Ahmed Kabel, ‘There is No Such Thing as "Keeping out of Politics": Medium of Instruction and Mother Tongue Education in Morocco’, in Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Kathleen Heugh (eds.), Multilingual Education and Sustainable Diversity Work: From Periphery to Center (New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 216-238. 33. H-Dirksen Bauman and Joseph J. Murra

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas has written or edited over 50 books and over 400 articles published in 48 languages on minority education, multilingualism, linguistic human rights, linguistic genocide, ecolinguistics, and the subtractive spread of English. She was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax prize in 2003. http://www.tove-skutnabb-kangas.org. Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Robert Phillipson is a prolific scholar who has written or edited books on linguistic imperialism and the globalization of English, European Union language policy, language rights, and multilingualism in education. He was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax prize in 2010. http://www.cbs.dk/en/staff/rpibc.