Ideologies Across Nations: the construction of linguistic minorities and the United Nations
Ideologies Across Nations: the construction of linguistic minorities and the United Nations
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. The construction of linguistic minorities and the United Nations is a book that invites us to follow a thorny path, the long road in the discursive acknowledgment of linguistic minorities within discursive spaces, responsible for such issues, within an international institution such as the United Nations (UN), and the implications for such recognition within the UN universalist framework of human rights. 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).
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Patino, Adriana
6a3c90b1-c110-4c9e-8991-afb409e76ef7
22 January 2010
Patino, Adriana
6a3c90b1-c110-4c9e-8991-afb409e76ef7
Patino, Adriana
(2010)
Ideologies Across Nations: the construction of linguistic minorities and the United Nations.
Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 4 (3), .
(doi:10.1080/17447140903461597).
Abstract
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. The construction of linguistic minorities and the United Nations is a book that invites us to follow a thorny path, the long road in the discursive acknowledgment of linguistic minorities within discursive spaces, responsible for such issues, within an international institution such as the United Nations (UN), and the implications for such recognition within the UN universalist framework of human rights. 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).
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