RC50 - The Politics of Language

Chair

Dr. Jean-François Dupré, Université TÉLUQ
jfdupre@connect.hku.hk

Université TÉLUQ
Humanities, Letters and Communication
Canada

Vice-Chair

Prof. Ericka Albaugh, Bowdoin College
ealbaugh@bowdoin.edu

Bowdoin College
Government and Legal Studies
Hubbard Hall - 209A, 255 Maine Street
Brunswick, Maine, 04011
United States

Secretary

Prof. Peter Ives, University of Winnipeg
p.ives@uwinnipeg.ca

University of Winnipeg
6L10 Lockhart Hall, 515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9
Canada

Board members

Till Burkckhardt, Université de Genève, Switzerland, tillja@gmail.com

Dr. Bartosz Hordecki, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, bartosz.hordecki@amu.edu.pl

Miranda Huron, Capilanou University, Canada, mirandahuron@capilanou.ca

Dr. Huw Lewis, Aberystwyth University, U.K., hhl@aber.ac.uk

Dr. Kyoko Motobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan, kmotobayashi@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Roberta de Oliveira Soares, University of Montreal, Canada, roberta.de.oliveira.soares@umontreal.ca

Dr. Yael Peled, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, peled@mmg.mpg.de

Dr. Elise Pizzi, University of Iowa, United States, elise-pizzi@uiowa.edu

Isabela Rocha, Universidade de Brasília, Brasil, isabelarocha.contato@gmail.com

Background

Granted research committee status in 2000; committee created in January 2001.

Objectives

The purpose of the committee is to study the politics of language; more specifically to study:

  1. the relations of power that inflect the choice and use of language(s) in international, national, regional, and local polities, societies and communities;
  2. the origins, structures, implementation, effects and consequences of language regimes;
  3. the politics of linguistic minorities, including goals, strategies, motivations and mobilization;

 by

  1. using the normative and empirical tools of analysis in political science;
  2. developing mid-level theories regarding language and democracy, citizenship, globalization and other critical issues.

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