Nationalism, Liberalism and Language in Catalonia and Flanders

• Main Author: Cetrà, Daniel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Comparative Territorial Politics
• Subjects: Regionalism.; Comparative politics.; Europe-Politics and government.; Language policy.; World politics.; Political theory.; Comparative Politics.; European Politics.; Language Policy and Planning.; Political History.; Political Theory.

Is liberalism really compatible with nationalism? Are there limits to linguistic nation-building policies? What arguments justify the imposition of national languages? This book addresses these questions by examining the linguistic disputes in Catalonia and Flanders, two major cases of sub-state nat...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Revisiting Liberal Nationalism
• 3 The Politics of Language and Nationalism
• 4 Nationalism in Catalonia and Flanders
• 5 The Catalan Linguistic Dispute
• 6 The Flemish Linguistic Dispute
• 7 Debating within Liberal Nationalism
• 8 Conclusion: Speaking for the Nation.