From Protector to Producer: The Role of the State in the Discursive Shift from Minority Rights to Economic Development

Autor/inn/en	da Silva, Emanuel; Heller, Monica
Titel	From Protector to Producer: The Role of the State in the Discursive Shift from Minority Rights to Economic Development
Quelle	In: Language Policy, 8 (2009) 2, S.95-116 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1568-4555
DOI	10.1007/s10993-009-9127-x
Schlagwörter	Language Minorities; Economic Development; Language Planning; Linguistics; Urban Areas; Foreign Countries; French; Political Attitudes; Ethnography; Social Systems; English; Bilingualism; French Canadians; Government Role; Public Policy; Rural Areas; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachminderheit; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Sprachwechsel; Linguistik; Urban area; Stadtregion; Ausland; Französisch; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Ethnografie; Social system; Soziales System; English language; Englisch; Bilingualismus; Frankokanadier; Öffentliche Ordnung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Kanada
Abstract	This paper explores the challenges that neoliberalism and the globalized new economy present to the politics of linguistic minority movements by ethnographically examining language policy as a discursive process, rooted in political economy. Following the post-WWII period, as most Western States restructured from welfarism to neoliberalism, there was a shift away from minority (language) rights towards economic development. In Canada, where State policy maintains a French-English "linguistic duality", francophone regions outside Quebec became sites of discursive struggle, following the collapse of the old economy, between (1) a focus on the collective reproduction of "community" (maintaining language, culture and identity), and (2) the State's focus on facilitating individual economic reproduction. What emerges is an attempt by the State, and certain community actors to save the traditional francophone minority collectivity by focusing on the "community economic development" of rural bastions, rather than the economic integration of individual francophones living in diverse, urban areas. (As Provided).
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