RC50 - The Politics of Language

Co-Chairs

Prof. Bartosz Hordecki, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
hordecki@amu.edu.pl

Faculty of Political Science and Journalism
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 5
Poznań, Greater Poland 61-614
Poland
            
Prof. Kyoko Motobayashi, University of Tokyo
kmotobayashi@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Department of Language and Information Sciences
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
University of Tokyo
3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku
Tokyo 153-8902
Japan    

Vice-Chair

Dr. Yael Peled, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany

Secretary

Miranda Huron, Capilano University, Canada

Board members

Philippe Chassé, Université de Montréal, Canada
Dr. Michele Gazzola, Ulster University (Belfast Campus), United Kingdom
Dr. Huw Lewis, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
Isabela Rocha, Universidade de Brasília, Brasil
Roberta de Oliveira Soares, University of Montreal, Canada
Honorio Vásquez Martínez, National University Autonomous of Mexico, Mexico
Meiying Xu, University of Texas at Austin, USA

 

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.

Website

http://rc50.ipsa.org/