Governing complex linguistic diversity in Barcelona, Luxembourg and Riga

  • Contemporary migration has entailed the emergence of new forms of multilingualism in many European cities. The article uses the concept of complex diversity to analyse this dynamic. The concept points at settings where historical forms of multilingualism and more recent patterns of linguistic heterogeneity interact in ways that lead to particularly rich cultural configurations. The authors assess how local authorities deal with multilingualism in three cities that represent ‘most complex’ cases of diversity politics: Barcelona, Luxembourg and Riga. The focus is on policies related to public communication and on the approaches adopted to promote social and political inclusion in ever more multilingual urban environments. In normative terms, the article concludes that political responses to complex diversity should aim both at overcoming linguistic status inequalities based on historical structures of domination and at creating common spaces of communication for diverse citizens.

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Author:Peter A. KrausGND, Vincent Climent‐Ferrando, Melanie Frank, Núria Garcia
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-818050
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/81805
Parent Title (English):Nations and Nationalism
Publisher:Wiley
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2021
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2020/12/11
Volume:27
Issue:2
First Page:449
Last Page:466
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12662
Institutes:Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Sozialwissenschaften / Politikwissenschaft
Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Sozialwissenschaften / Politikwissenschaft / Professur für Politikwissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt vergleichende Systemanalyse (Europa und Nordamerika)
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft
Licence (German):CC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand)