Language, Ethnicity and the State, Volume 2 : Minority Languages in Eastern Europe Post-1989

After taking a post-graduate degree in Industrial Relations at Warwick University, he worked in the steel industry for five years before leaving to take up a lectureship at the University of Salford. His first visit to Latvia was in 1995, at the height of the banking crisis. During subsequent visits, he has continued to observe the dramatic course of transition from a planned to a market economy and its effect on the lives of the people. Unlike many writers in this area, he has no genealogical links with the Baltic states. Rebecca Golbert is a doctoral candidate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford, specializing in Jewish youth culture and identity in post-Soviet Ukraine. She is completing a dissertation entitled 'Constructing Self: Ukrainian Jewish Youth in the Making', and has published an article in The political and social upheavals following 1989 have had a significant impact on the minority languages of Eastern Europe. There have been attempts at enlightened treatment of minority linguistic groups in some of the new states but in others such groups have been openly oppressed. This volume draws on sociologically and ethnographically oriented work from a number of disciplines to allow the reader to compare developments in the different states, and to examine the interplay of language issues, ethnic nationalism, and processes of state formation and restructuring in the various political and historical contexts of Central and Eastern Europe. A companion volume (0-333-92925-X) examines the status of minority languages in the European Union. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: Minority Languages, Ethnicity and the State in Post-1989 Eastern Europe....Pages 1-16 Language, Nationalism and the Yugoslav Successor States....Pages 17-43 Debating Language: the Bulgarian Communities in Romania after 1989....Pages 44-65 From Irredentism to Constructive Reconciliation? Germany and its Minorities in Poland and the Czech Republic....Pages 66-90 Language Ideology and Language Conflict in Post-Soviet Belarus....Pages 91-122 The Politics of Language in Moldova....Pages 123-154 Ethnic Discrimination in Latvia....Pages 155-188 Language, Nation and State-building in Ukraine: the Jewish Response....Pages 189-212 Back Matter....Pages 213-228 This volume draws on sociologically and ethnographically oriented work from a number of disciplines to allow the reader to compare developments in the different states, and to examine the interplay of language issues, ethnic nationalism and processes of state formation and restructuring in the various political and historical contexts of Central Eastern Europe.
This volume draws on sociologically and ethnographically oriented work from a number of disciplines to allow the reader to compare developments in the different Eastern European states, and to examine the interplay of language issues, ethnic nationalism, and processes of state formation This is a collection of sociologically and ethnographically oriented works that discuss the ethnic-linguistic issues of the European Union. It looks at the different ethno-linguistic revival groups in the EU v. 1. Minority languages in the European Union v. 2. Minority languages in Eastern Europe post-1989. Like religion and ethnicity, language has served as a marker of national identity.