Overview
Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. The author argues that international language rights advocacy supports global governance of language and questions freedoms of speech and expression.
Full Product Details
Author: V. Pupavac
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 1st ed. 2012
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781349520336
ISBN 10: 1349520330
Pages: 317
Publication Date: 01 January 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
'Like a clear beacon in a murky sea of political defeatism and increasing governmental control, Vanessa Pupavac's wonderful book gives out an invigorating light. Historically informed and rigorously researched, Language Rights: From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance provides a singular critique of the human rights industry and its endeavours to speak for us, infantilise us, and protect us from ourselves. In providing a robust and wide-ranging libertarian defence of the freedoms of speech, Pupavac's book ranks as a modern classic. Written in a fluid and accessible style, Language Rights is highly recommended, not only for specialists or students, but for engaged and concerned citizens everywhere.' - Mark Duffield, Emeritus Professor, Global Insecurities Centre, University of Bristol and author of Global Governance and the New Wars and Development, Security and Unending War. 'In this exciting and essential new book Vanessa Pupavac builds on her earlier work on language rights politics and international therapeutic governance. She has written a wide-ranging, sophisticated and highly erudite defence of the classical values of freedom of speech, in the face of what she describes as forms of 'legal imperialism' antithetical to humanist emancipatory politics. Her passionate and controversial arguments will be required reading for students, scholars and policy-makers concerned with linguistic human rights.' Professor Bill Bowring, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, and author of Degradation of the International Legal Order?
Author Information
VANESSA PUPAVAC is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has a background in Slavonic languages and law, and previously worked as a translator for the United Nations. Vanessa's research encompasses international human rights, children's rights, linguistic rights, humanitarian and development politics.
