Language Rights: From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance [Paperback]

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.Contesting Human Rights, Language, and Politics The Rise of International Linguistic Human Rights and the Governance of Politics Enlightenment Speech to Romantic National Languages From Romantic Subjectivity to Post-Romantic Cultural Identities and Linguistic Adaptation Righting Babel? Translation as Cultural Transfusion or Cultural Violence Linguistic Imperialism, Global English and Modernity Anticolonial and Post-Independence Language Politics: From Emancipatory Aspirations to Limits Language Rights Politics in Former Yugoslavia and Therapeutic Cultural Governance in Bosnia Ecolinguistics and Post-Humanist Advocacy From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance Afterword: Reclaiming Freedoms of Speech against Linguistic Governance?

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.

'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 mlS«