Posted by Dr. Papia Sengupta and Dr. Probal Dasgupta on the Sociolinguists Group on Facebook
Special issue of Droit et Culture on Cultures Meet the Law: The Case of India
Guest editors Probal Dasgupta and Papia Sengupta; date proposed approx. 2014
This special number focuses on the legal-cultural interface in the context of the Indian experience. The framework of the modern welfare state was designed to be blind to demographic heterogeneity; under pressure from approaches based on rights and entitlements, there is now a global project of modulating this apparatus, and its methods of identifying and addressing imbalance, in an identitarian direction.
From this viewpoint, it becomes important to consider the experience of India, where a modern state with a self-consciously composite demographic base and committed to the democratic empowerment of its constituents has continued to conserve established customary structures of religious, marital, educational, moral and linguistic diversity – within a model of slow development that did not eradicate illiteracy in one fell swoop right after independence. This style of functioning has involved aligning modern legal institutions with customary jurisprudence and protracted negotiation about how much of the law will in fact be implemented and at which point on the enlightenment curves, viewed as proceeding at different paces for different subcommunities. Questions arise both at the level of taking stock of the Indian experience at this moment and in terms of trying to generalize from this context in ways that may prove applicable in other multicultural projects.
The editorial team – comprising a linguist and a political scientist – proposes to solicit papers from scholars in history, law, political science, and other cultural sciences, drawing from a selected list but also leaving some space for wild card submissions from faces not known to us.
INTERNPosted by Dr. Michael Hornsby ATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
“I have been invited to serve as a guest-editor on the above journal for a special issue (and am delighted to have been asked!) I am currently formulating a theme for this special issue and am thinking along the lines of problems and issues in the revitalisation of small languages in an era of globalisation. If you would like to contribute, please contact me on keltiek.uam@wp.pl with your ideas. My own interests lie primarily within the revitalisation of Celtic languages but I would like to hear about any situation of language revitalisation as I am sure many languages are experiencing similar problems (and advances) due to globalisation.
I have been asked to confine the area of languages to central/eastern Europe. This does not preclude revitalisation case studies from other areas by way of comparison but preference will be given to papers on minority languages in central/eastern Europe.“
Michael Hornsby
Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
keltiek.uam@wp.pl
January 5, 2011 at 8:30 pm
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