Kathleen Heugh

Michele Gazzola

François Grin

Linda Cardinal

The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning is a comprehensive and authoritative survey, including original contributions from leading senior scholars and rising stars to provide a basis for future research in language policy and planning in international, national, regional, and local contexts. The Handbook approaches language policy as public policy that can be studied through the policy cycle framework. It offers a systematic and research-informed view of actual processes and methods of design, implementation, and evaluation. With a substantial introduction, 38 chapters and an extensive bibliography, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all decision makers, students, and researchers of language policy and planning within linguistics and cognate disciplines such as public policy, economics, political science, sociology, and education.

The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning

David John Headon

On the last page of his classical work, Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia Reverend John Dunmore Lang, observed, 'Remote as [Australia and Canada] are from each other, there is a secret sympathy between these two countries'. Written in 1852, this was one of the earliest and most compelling statements about the distinctive relationship between these two British colonies A relationship which would be vigorously changed in 1890s as Australia Federationists considered range of constitutional options available to them One hundred years later, there continues to be shared interest in Australia's constitutional debate concerning the prospect of becoming a republic, along with its celebration of the centenary of Federation. Canadian Prim Minister Jean Chretien recently commented that "Canadians are aware if the blessings of Australia, many of which we share..." Lang's 'secret sympathy' is probably mare accurate now that ever before.

Constitutionalism and Society in Australia and Canada

Shaping Nations

Dimitrios Karmis

Cet ouvrage nous offre une approche renouvelée des politiques publiques canadiennes dans de nombreux domaines : le développement international, l'environnement, l'énergie, l'immigration, l'intégration économique, les langues officielles, les peuples autochtones, la santé, les villes, etc. Ces politiques constituent des cas de figure fortement influencés par les nouveaux compromis que les citoyennes et les citoyens sont dorénavant appelés à faire dans les secteurs de l'intervention publique, que l'on pense à la santé, à l'économie, au développement ou à l'immigration. Même si les auteurs proviennent d'horizons différents - la politique canadienne et québécoise, la politique internationale, la politique comparée ou la pensée politique -, ils confirment tous que l'analyse critique des politiques publiques n'a que faire des frontières disciplinaires. Quel que soit leur domaine principal de spécialisation, ces chercheurs tentent aujourd'hui de mieux comprendre la nature des rapports qui s'élaborent depuis quelques décennies entre l'Etat et la société, et l'incidence de la mondialisation et du néolibéralisme sur l'avenir de la démocratie et de la solidarité. C'est dire que l'analyse des politiques publiques ne peut être dissociée de l'étude du politique.

Pouvoir, conflits et idéologies

Les politiques publiques au Canada

Nicholas Brown

Australia, Canada, and Ireland are all engaged in questions of multiculturalism and in the politics of recognition and reconciliation, the opportunities and pressures of geographic regionalism, shifts in political agendas associated with the impact of neo-liberalism, and moves to frame political agendas less at the macro-level of state intervention and more at the level of community partnership and empowerment. In related but distinct ways, each state is being challenged to devise policies and offer outcomes that address an unfolding and unsteady synthesis of issues relating to citizenship, the role of nation-states in a 'borderless' world, and the management of economic change while preserving an enabling sense of national identity and social cohesion. Analyzing issues ranging from urban planning and the provision of broadcasting services for minority languages, to principled debates over basic rights and entitlements, these essays offer penetrating summaries of each political culture while also prompting comparative reflection on the broad theme of "democracy and difference."

Linda Cardinal

About

Books

Join the club