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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Language loss: a question of biology or power? | |
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| Nation-states, nationalism and nation-state congruence | |
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| Nationalism, ethnicity and language | |
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| Overview | |
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| Prospects for change | |
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| Notes | |
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| The denunciation of ethnicity | |
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| Academic denunciations of ethnicity | |
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| The academic rehabilitation of ethnicity? | |
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| Ethnicity and modernity | |
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| Ethnicity as primordial | |
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| Situational ethnicity | |
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| Instrumental ethnicity | |
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| Hybridity: the postmodernist politics of identity | |
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| Limits to the social construction of ethnicity | |
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| Finding common ground - ethnicity as habitus | |
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| Ethnies | |
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| Notes | |
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| Nationalism and its discontents | |
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| Linguistic nationalism | |
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| The will to nationhood | |
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| The modern nation | |
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| The modernists | |
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| Limits of the modernist account | |
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| Ethnicist approaches to nationalism | |
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| Dominant ethnies | |
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| The construction of sociological minorities | |
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| Notes | |
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| Liberal theory, multiculturalism and minority rights | |
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| The pluralist dilemma | |
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| Defending liberal democracy | |
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| Critiquing liberal democracy | |
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| Rethinking liberal democracy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Language, identity and minority rights | |
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| Language and identity | |
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| Identity in language | |
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| Language and culture | |
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| Language, culture and politics | |
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| Language decline: the death of Irish? | |
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| Language revival: flogging a dead horse? | |
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| Reevaluating language shift | |
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| Linguistic markets and symbolic violence | |
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| Vive la France: the construction of la langue legitime | |
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| Legitimating and institutionalising minority languages | |
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| Notes | |
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| Language, education and minority rights | |
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| Educating for the majority | |
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| Educating for the minority | |
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| Minority-group responses to language-education policies | |
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| Bridging the gap between policy and practice | |
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| Minority-language and education rights in international law | |
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| The crux of majority opinion | |
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| Notes | |
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| English hegemony and its critics: North American debates | |
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| Rule Britannia: English in the ascendant | |
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| 'Doesn't anyone speak English around here?': the US 'English Only' movement | |
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| Contrasting Quebec | |
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| A question of (ethnolinguistic) democracy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Extending ethnolinguistic democracy in Europe | |
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| A multilingual European Union? | |
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| Catalonia: the quest for political and linguistic autonomy | |
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| Wales: the development of a bilingual state in a 'forgotten' nation | |
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| Notes | |
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| Indigenous rights: self-determination, language and education | |
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| Indigenous peoples, self-determination and international law | |
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| Indigenous peoples and national law | |
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| Indigenous language and education rights | |
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| Aotearoa/New Zealand: a tale of two ethnicities | |
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| Language, culture and education in Aotearoa/New Zealand | |
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| Relative autonomy and community control: Te Kohanga Reo and Kura Kaupapa Maori | |
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| Notes | |
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| Minority languages and the nation-state | |
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| Addressing constructivism | |
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| Moving forward: from principles to practice | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |