Linguistic Justice in Multinational Democracies

Abstract

This panel examines the challenges that emerge from the presence of linguistic diversity in multinational democracies. In such cases, disputes over linguistic policies are highly prominent both at the state and the sub-state level, while the interaction of linguistic and national issues complicates the analysis of what linguistic justice entails. This panel represents an opportunity to gain insight into some of these challenges from both empirical and normative perspectives. First, it includes in-depth analyses from single linguistic disputes, with a view to identifying similarities and differences across cases. Topics include the management of linguistic diversity in India’s education policy, the relationship between Flemish nationalism and the linguistic integration of immigrants, and the nationalist dimension in the linguistic controversy over the Catalan education system. Second, the panel includes normative contributions which reflect on the conditions for linguistic justice in multinational democracies. Contributions will offer a normative theory of language policy built into a republican conception of national self-determination. They will also explore the place of language in the shared public sphere of a multilingual democracy. In bringing together specific realities and theoretical perspectives, the panel puts emphasis on the empirical and normative dimensions of linguistic diversity and their public policy consequences.

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