RC50 - The Politics of Language

Chair

Dr Jean-François Dupré
Université TÉLUQ
Humanities, Letters and Communication
Canada
jfdupre@connect.hku.hk

 

Vice-Chair

Prof Ericka Albaugh
Bowdoin College
Government and Legal Studies
United States
ealbaugh@bowdoin.edu

 

Secretary

Prof Peter Ives
University of Winnipeg
Political Science
Canada
p.ives@uwinnipeg.ca

 

Officers

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

Prof. Rudi Janssens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, rudi.janssens@vub.ac.be

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

Dr. Yael Peled, Montréal, Canada, yael.a.peled@gmail.com

Prof. Kyoko Motobayashi, Ochanomizu University, Japan, motobayashi.kyoko@ocha.ac.jp

Mr Till Burckhardt, Université de Genève, Switzerland, tb@tillja.com

Prof. Mike Medeiros, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, m.medeiros@uva.nl

 

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/