List of contributors

Jean-Claude Barbier is emeritus CNRS professor of sociology at Paris Sorbonne. He is a specialist in the social dimension of European integration. He has written extensively on this (including two books in 2008 (La longue marche vers l’Europe sociale, (Presses Universitaires de France)) and 2013 (The Road to Social Europe: A Contemporary Approach to Political Cultures and Diversity in Europe, (Routledge)), and numerous articles), and on the limits of Europeanisation. Jean-Claude Barbier is also an academic member (personne qualifiée) of the Conseil national de lutte contre pauvreté et les exclusions (CNLE), a consultative organisation which advises the government on social policies, on policies regarding poverty, vulnerable groups, and especially on the question of the labour market integration of vulnerable people. He has acted as rapporteur of the employment commission of the CNLE for the last three years, and has worked for the last 30 years on analysing labour market policies and programmes for the disabled, the poor and vulnerable groups. In the last five years of his career, he has specialised on the linguistic components of citizenship and labour market participation in Europe. Personal page at: http://​rt6​.hypotheses​.org​/733.

Jean-Claude.Barbier@iniv-paris1.fr

Astrid von Busekist is full professor of political theory, head of the Political Theory Programme at Sciences Po, Paris. She is also the editor of Raisons Politiques (https://​www​.cairn​.info​/revue​-raisons​-politiques​.htm). She has taught at the universities of Lille, Nice, Tel Aviv, Brussels (ULB), and Berlin (FU). She has published in English, French and German, on Nationalism, Language Policies, and Boundaries. Her latest publications include Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018 forthcoming), with Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato; Portes et Murs. Des Frontières en Démocratie, (Paris: Albin Michel, 2016); Singulière Belgique, (Paris: Fayard, 2012); and “The Ethics of Language Policies”, in: A. Lever and A Poama (eds), Ethics and Public Policies, (London: Routledge, forthcoming in 2018). She has translated Philippe Sands, Retour à Lemberg (East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity), (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016; Paris: Albin Michel, 2017). Full profile at: http://​www​.sciencespo​.fr​/ceri​/en​/users​/astridvonbusekist; http://​www​.sciencespo​.fr​/ceri​/fr​/cerispire​-user​/7136​/1880.

astrid.vonbusekist@sciencespo.fr

Linda Cardinal is full professor of political science and holder of the Research Chair in Francophone studies and public policy at the University of Ottawa (Canada). She has been Chair of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin (Ireland) and at La Sorbonne Nouvelle (France). She has a long record of publications on the politics of language regimes, state traditions, citizenship and diversity, in particular in Canada, in Québec and in Europe. Her most recent publications include “Minority Languages, Education and the Constitution in Canada”, (with Pierre Foucher), in: Peter Oliver, Patrick Macklem and Nathalie Des Rosiers (eds), Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 553–574. “La complétude institutionnelle en perspective”, (edited with Rémi Léger) (2017) 36 Politique et Sociétés, Special Issue, Une Tradition et une droit la representation politique de la fracophonie canadienne au Sénat, authored with Sébastien Grammond, (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2017), and State Traditions and Language Regimes, edited with Selma Sonntag, (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015). Personal profile at: www​.crfpp​.uottawa​.ca.

Linda.Cardinal@uottawa.ca

Federico Gobbo is full professor by special appointment to the Special Chair in Interlinguistics and Esperanto at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and visiting professor at the University of Turin (Italy). He participates at the 7FP-EU project MIME (Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe) with the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). He has been visiting professor at Nanjing University (China). He has taken part in Italian research projects and international networks of excellence in the History and Philosophy of Computing and Artificial Intelligence. He has published widely and in several languages on various topics, including the sociology of language, linguistic justice, formal language education, the Montessori Method, machine translation, constructive linguistics, the epistemology of computer programming, artificiality and languages. He is a member of the board of various journals, and is the new interlinguistics editor of Language Problems & Language Learning, (John Benjamins). Full profile at: www​.uva​.nl​/en​/profile​/g​/o​/f​.gobbo​/f​.gobbo​.html.

F.Gobbo@uva.nl; federico.gobbo@unito.it

François Grin is full professor of economics at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (FTI) of the University of Geneva. He has served as Deputy Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues, (ECMI) in Flensburg, Germany, and of the Education Research Unit (SRED) of the Geneva Department of Education. François Grin has specialised in language economics and language policy selection and design. He has published widely on those topics in English and French, both in edited volumes and in journals such as the International Political Science Review, Kyklos, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Language Policy, Journal of Sociolinguistics, etc. Together with C. Sfreddo and F. Vaillancout, he is the author of The Economics of the Multilingual Workplace, (Routledge, 2010). He advises national and regional authorities on questions of language policy selection and design, and has steered several large-scale research projects for national and international agencies. He is the Coordinator of the MIME project (“Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe”, 2014–2018) in the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme. François Grin sits on the board of several journals in the fields of language and multilingualism, and is the new Editor-in-Chief of Language Problems and Language Planning. Personal page at: www​.elf​.unige​.ch.

francois.grin@unige.ch

Rudi Janssens is currently senior researcher at the Brussels Information, Documentation and Research Centre (BRIO) at the Department of Political Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he is in charge of the language-sociological research segment. He mainly works on language use in multilingual and multicultural cities and the impact of language policies. He has already conducted several surveys on language use, language shift, and language and identity. His recent publications include “The Brussels’ Language Conflict: Political Mind-set versus Linguistic Practice”, (2015) 235 International Journal of the Sociology of Language, pp. 53–76, “In Contact and/or in Conflict? Ethno-cultural Markers. Language and Schooling in Post-war Brussels”, with Joost Vaesen, in: Catharina Peersman, Gijsbert Rutten and Rik Vosters (eds), Past, Present and Future of a Language Border, (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015), pp. 255–274; Le multilinguisme urbain. Le cas de Bruxelles, (Bruxelles: Éditions Racine, 2014); and “The Linguistic Landscape as a Political Arena: The Case of the Brussels Periphery in Belgium”, in: Christine Hélot, Monica Barni, Rudi Janssens and Carla Bagna (eds), Linguistic Landscapes, Multilingualism and Social Change, vol. 16 of the series, Sprache, Mehrsprachigkeit und sozialer Wandel, (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 17–25.

janssens.rudi@gmail.com

Peter A. Kraus is full professor of political science (comparative politics) and the director of the Institute for Canadian Studies at the University of Augsburg (Germany). He has been the chair of ethnic relations at the University of Helsinki, an associate professor of political science at Humboldt University in Berlin, a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research and at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He has published widely and in several languages on cultural diversity and identity politics, ethnicity, nationalism, and migration, the dilemmas of European integration, as well as problems of democratisation and democratic theory. He is the author of A Union of Diversity: Language, Identity, and Polity-Building in Europe, (Cambridge University Press, 2008). His most recent publications include “The Diversities of Europe: From European Modernity to the Making of the European Union”, (edited with Giuseppe Sciortino), (2014) 14 Ethnicities (Special Issue), pp. 485–497, The Challenge of Minority Integration: Politics and Policies in the Nordic Nations (edited with Peter Kivisto, Warsaw-Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2015), and The Catalan Process: Sovereignty, Self-Determination and Democracy in the 21st Century, (edited with Joan Vergés Gifra, Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis de l’Autogovern, 2017). Personal page at: http://​www​.uni​-augsburg​.de​/institute​/kanada​/kraus​.htm.

peter.kraus@phil.uni-augsburg.de

Rémi Léger is an assistant professor of political science at the Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada). He is also the editor of the journal Francophonies d’Amérique and a Chair of the Research Committee on The Politics of Language (RC 50) at the International Political Science Association. His research is focused on democracy and diversity, particularly on the principles and conditions of justice in diverse societies. His recent publications include special issues on institutional completeness, “La complétude institutionnelle en perspective”, edited with Linda Cardinal, (2017) 36 Politique et Sociétés, Special Issue, and normative language policy, “Normative Political Theory’s Contribution to Language Policy Research”, (2017) 38 Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, pp. 577–583, with Huw Lewis, as well as articles in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Linguistic Minorities and Society, and Ethnopolitics.

rleger@sfu.ca

Virginie Mamadouh is associate professor of Political and Cultural Geography at the department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies of the University of Amsterdam and affiliated to the Centre for Urban Studies and ACCESS EUROPE. She is a member of the Academia Europaea. Her research interests pertain to (critical) geopolitics, political culture, European integration, (urban) social movements, transnationalism, and multilingualism. She has published mainly in English, Dutch and French. For the past 25 years, her work on the political and cultural geographies of languages has been focused on Europe and the European Union, ranging from multilingualism in the internal dynamics of the European Parliament, through the link between preferred language regimes and conceptions of national identities and transnational networks across monolingual national communication settings (especially those linked to migration, grassroots movements and new media) to the linguistic diversity in European cities. She is an editor of the international academic journal Geopolitics and chair of the Commission on Political Geography of the International Geographical Union (IGU). She recently co-edited with John Agnew, Anna Secor and Joanne Sharp, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography, (2015), with Anne van Wageningen, of Urban Europe: Fifty Tales of the City, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016), and, with Robert Kloosterman and Pieter Terhorst, Handbook on the Geographies of Globalisation, (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming). Full profile at: http://​virginiemamadouh​.socsci​.uva​.nl.

v.d.mamadouh@uva.nl

László Marácz defended his Ph.D dissertation in General Linguistics at the University of Groningen in 1989. In 1991–92, he was granted the Niels Stenson Fellowship. Since 1992, he has been an assistant professor in the Department of European Studies of the University of Amsterdam. He is also “honorary professor” of the L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana, Kazakhstan. He has published on a range of topics in Humanities and Social Sciences, including European studies, historical linguistics, and cultural and linguistic diversity. His recent publications include, “Prospects on Hungarian as a Regional Official Language and Szeklerland’s Territorial Autonomy in Romania”, (2016) 23 International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, pp. 530–559, together with Zsombor Csata; editor of (2016) Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies, 9, Special Issue of the workshop on Philippe Van Parijs’ linguistic justice; “The Roots of Modern Hungarian Nationalism: A Case Study and a Research Agenda”, in: Lotte Jensen (ed.), The Roots of Nationalism: National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600–1815, (Heritage and Memory Studies), (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016), pp. 235–250; “The Politics of Language Policies: Hungarian Linguistic Minorities in Central Europe”, (2015) 31 Politeja, pp. 45–65; Towards Eurasian Linguistic Isoglosses: The Case of Turkic and Hungarian, (Astana: International Turkic Academy, 2015). For full profile, see: http://​www​.uva​.nl​/en​/profile​/m​/a​/l​.k​.maracz​/l​.k​.maracz​.html.

L.K.Maracz@uva.nl

Robert Phillipson is emeritus professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. British by origin, he studied at Cambridge and Leeds Universities, and has a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. He worked for the British Council in Algeria, Yugoslavia, and London, before migrating to Denmark in 1973. For many years, he was employed at the University of Roskilde, where the pedagogy was problem-centred multi-disciplinary group projects. His main books are Learner Language and Language Learning, (Gyldendal and Multilingual Matters, 1984), Linguistic Imperialism, (Oxford University Press, 1992), English-only Europe? Challenging Language Policy, (Routledge, 2003), and Linguistic Imperialism Continued, (Routledge, 2009). He has co-edited books on language rights and multilingual education, including Why English? Confronting the Hydra, (Multilingual Matters, 2016), and Language Rights, (four volumes, with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Routledge, 2017). He has had attachments to universities on several continents, and had lengthy involvement in issues of language policy in southern Africa and India. He was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax Prize in 2010. For full details of publications and CV, see: www​.cbs​.dk​/en​/staff​/rpnsc​.rp​.msc@cbs​.dk.

rp.msc@cbs.dk

Tom Ricento is full professor and research chair, English as an Additional Language, in the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada. Previously, he was Professor in the Department of Bicultural Bilingual Education, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, USA. He is the editor of numerous books, including: Language Policy and Planning: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, (four volumes, Routledge, 2016); Language Policy and Political Economy: English in a Global Context, (Oxford University Press, 2015); An Introduction to Language Policy: Theory and Method, (Blackwell, 2006); Ideology, Politics and Language Policies: Focus on English, (John Benjamins, 2000). He has published research on language policy, politics and ideologies in Language Policy, TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Discourse & Society, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Critical Multilingualism Studies, and Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, among other journals. He is founding co-editor of the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, (Routledge), serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of six international journals, and has been a visiting professor/researcher at universities in Aruba, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. He was twice a Fulbright Professor and has been awarded research grants from several major foundations. His research and publications in recent years have focused on the integration of refugees in Canadian society, especially with regard to the linguistic and cultural barriers which they face. Full profile at: http://​werklund​.ucalgary​.ca​/educ​_info​/profiles​/thomas​-ricento.

tricento@ucalgary.ca

Helder De Schutter is professor of social and political philosophy at KU Leuven, and currently serves as the director of the Leuven research group in Political Philosophy RIPPLE. He works on the moral foundation of linguistic justice, federalism in multinational states, nationalism and nation-building, and migration. He also has a strong interest in eighteenth century philosophy of language. He has held positions at Princeton University, the University of Oxford, and the Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles. His papers have appeared in books and journals, including The Journal of Political Philosophy, Inquiry, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Nationality Papers, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy and the British Journal of Political Science. Personal page: https://​hiw​.kuleuven​.be​/ripple​/people​.helder.

deschutter@kuleuven.be

Konstantin Zamyatin is a research fellow at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, UK. His current research interests are ethnic politics and language politics in Russia and the other countries of the former Soviet Union. He is currently working on completing a monograph tentatively entitled Language Policies in the Finno-Ugric Republics of Post-Soviet Russia: Revisiting Revivalism that examines the language reforms in the ethnic republics of Russia pursued as a “top-down” public policy. He has co-authored (with Janne Saarikivi and Annika Pasanen) a popular monograph entitled Why and How Languages of the Peoples of Russia can be Maintained (in Russian, Vammalan kirjapaino Oy, 2012). His recent publications have appeared, inter alia, in the Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (2012, 2016, 2017), the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (2013), and in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen (2014, 2016, 2018, in press). His expert work includes the participation in a project on indigenous education with a chapter forthcoming in State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, 3rd volume, Education (UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 2017). Full profile at: https://​konstantin​.i​.zamyatin@durham​.ac​.uk.