European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Volume 9 (2010)
Edited by the European Centre for Minority Issues and The European Academy Bozen/Bolzano
Editorial Board
General Editors: Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, Arie Bloed, Rainer Hofmann, Joseph Marko, James Mayall, John Packer, Marc Weller.
Managing Editors: Maren Meyer, Alexander Osipov.
Focus Editors: Tarlach McGonagle and Tom Moring.
Managing Editors: Maren Meyer, Alexander Osipov.
Focus Editors: Tarlach McGonagle and Tom Moring.
Table of contents
Foreword; Part I: Articles
A. General Articles Section
Official Language Preferences, and the Recognition of a Person’s Name: A Significant Clarification after Raihman v. Latvia
Fernand de Varennes;
Framing Ethnic Issues through the Notion of Discrimination: the Case of Russia
Alexander Osipov;
The Protection of the Cultural Identity of Minorities in International Law: Individual versus Collective Rights
Claudia Tavani;
EU Enlargement and Minority Rights: A Regime in the Making
David J. Galbreath;
Project Report: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Minority Protection Rules in Ten New EU Member States
Guido Schwellnus, Liudmila Mikalayeva and Lilla Balázs;
Implementing Soft Law: The Case of Equality Promotion
Malte Brosig;
European Integration and Minority Nationalist Mobilisation in France
Emelyne Cheney;
Defining the Indefinable: A Definition of ‘Minority’ in EU Law
Gulara Guliyeva;
B. Special Focus: Education
Minority Education – torn in Contradictions?
Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark;
Romani Teaching: Some General Considerations Based on Model Cases
Dieter Halwachs;
Learning the Neighbour’s Language: The Many Challenges in Achieving a Real Multilingual Society. The Case of Second Language Acquisition in the Minority-Majority Context of South Tyrol
Andrea Abel, Chiara Vettori and Doris Forer;
The Right to Education of Persons Belonging to National Minorities in Vojvodina 1974-2004
Aleksandra Vujić;
Recognizing Formal and Substantive Equality in the Oršuš Case
Andrea Grgić;
C. Special Focus: Minorities and the Media: Present, Probing and Pressing Questions
Minorities and the Media: Present, Probing and Pressing Questions
Tarlach McGonagle and Tom Moring;
Language Minorities and New Media. Facing Trilingualism?
Laszlo Vincze;
BBC ALBA and the Evolution of Gaelic Television Broadcasting: A Case Study
Robert Dunbar;
Minorities and Online ‘Hate Speech’: A Parsing of Selected Complexities
Tarlach McGonagle;
D. Special Focus: Minorities and Religion
Law and Religion: The Need for the Development of an Interdisciplinary Framework of Analysis
Joseph Marko;
The Contribution of the European Court of Human Rights to Contemporary Religious-Related Dilemmas
Roberta Medda-Windischer;
Religious Minorities and Human Rights: Bridging International and Domestic Perspectives on the Rights of Persons Belonging to Religious Minorities under English law
Nazila Ghanea-Hercock;
Positive Measures and the EU Equality Directives: Closing the Protection Gap Between ‘New’ and ‘Old’ Minorities Through the Reasonable Accommodation of Religion?
Jennifer Jackson-Preece;
Part II: Reports
A. International Developments
Review of the Monitoring Process of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
Francoise Kempf;
Developments in the Field of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
Vesna Crnić-Grotić;
Minority Rights Questions Addressed by the Venice Commission in 2010
Pierre Garrone;
The Activities of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities January 2010 to December 2010
Stéphanie Marsal and Vincent de Graaf;
The European Union and Minorities in 2010: A Renewed Commitment?
Gabriel N. Toggenburg and Karen McLaughlin;
B. National Developments
The Kurdish Opening and the Constitutional Reform: Is there any Progress?
Elçin Aktoprak;
Denmark Adopts Unilateral Legislation in Favour of Kin-Minority
Tove H. Malloy;
The Development of Language Legislation in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine: Similarities and Differences
Iryna Ulasiuk;
How to Stop a Perpetuum Mobile? Interdisciplinary Insights into the Ongoing Issue of the Slovene Ethnic Minority in Austria: The Question of Bilingual Topography
Jürgen Pirker;
The Distinction of Minority Language Protection and Languages as a Cultural Heritage in Italy: The Case of the Piedmontese Dialect
Ulrike Haider Quercia;
Part III: Book Reviews
Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (eds.), Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010),
ISBN: 978-0-8122-4230-0 (Hardback)
Francesco Palermo;
Marc Weller, Contested Statehood: Kosovo’s Struggle for Independence (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009), ISBN: 978-0199566167 (Hardback) and James Ker-Lindsay, Kosovo: The Path to Contested Statehood in the Balkans (London: I.B.Tauris, 2009), ISBN: 978-1848850125 (Hardback)
Jan Asmussen;
Annelies Verstichel, Participation, Representation and Identity. The Right of Persons Belonging to Minorities to Effective Participation in Public Affairs: Content, Justification and Limits (Antwerp, Oxford, Portland: Intersentia, 2009), ISBN: 978-9050958400 (Hardback)
Verena Wisthaler;
Appendix: List of International Norms.
A. General Articles Section
Official Language Preferences, and the Recognition of a Person’s Name: A Significant Clarification after Raihman v. Latvia
Fernand de Varennes;
Framing Ethnic Issues through the Notion of Discrimination: the Case of Russia
Alexander Osipov;
The Protection of the Cultural Identity of Minorities in International Law: Individual versus Collective Rights
Claudia Tavani;
EU Enlargement and Minority Rights: A Regime in the Making
David J. Galbreath;
Project Report: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Minority Protection Rules in Ten New EU Member States
Guido Schwellnus, Liudmila Mikalayeva and Lilla Balázs;
Implementing Soft Law: The Case of Equality Promotion
Malte Brosig;
European Integration and Minority Nationalist Mobilisation in France
Emelyne Cheney;
Defining the Indefinable: A Definition of ‘Minority’ in EU Law
Gulara Guliyeva;
B. Special Focus: Education
Minority Education – torn in Contradictions?
Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark;
Romani Teaching: Some General Considerations Based on Model Cases
Dieter Halwachs;
Learning the Neighbour’s Language: The Many Challenges in Achieving a Real Multilingual Society. The Case of Second Language Acquisition in the Minority-Majority Context of South Tyrol
Andrea Abel, Chiara Vettori and Doris Forer;
The Right to Education of Persons Belonging to National Minorities in Vojvodina 1974-2004
Aleksandra Vujić;
Recognizing Formal and Substantive Equality in the Oršuš Case
Andrea Grgić;
C. Special Focus: Minorities and the Media: Present, Probing and Pressing Questions
Minorities and the Media: Present, Probing and Pressing Questions
Tarlach McGonagle and Tom Moring;
Language Minorities and New Media. Facing Trilingualism?
Laszlo Vincze;
BBC ALBA and the Evolution of Gaelic Television Broadcasting: A Case Study
Robert Dunbar;
Minorities and Online ‘Hate Speech’: A Parsing of Selected Complexities
Tarlach McGonagle;
D. Special Focus: Minorities and Religion
Law and Religion: The Need for the Development of an Interdisciplinary Framework of Analysis
Joseph Marko;
The Contribution of the European Court of Human Rights to Contemporary Religious-Related Dilemmas
Roberta Medda-Windischer;
Religious Minorities and Human Rights: Bridging International and Domestic Perspectives on the Rights of Persons Belonging to Religious Minorities under English law
Nazila Ghanea-Hercock;
Positive Measures and the EU Equality Directives: Closing the Protection Gap Between ‘New’ and ‘Old’ Minorities Through the Reasonable Accommodation of Religion?
Jennifer Jackson-Preece;
Part II: Reports
A. International Developments
Review of the Monitoring Process of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
Francoise Kempf;
Developments in the Field of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
Vesna Crnić-Grotić;
Minority Rights Questions Addressed by the Venice Commission in 2010
Pierre Garrone;
The Activities of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities January 2010 to December 2010
Stéphanie Marsal and Vincent de Graaf;
The European Union and Minorities in 2010: A Renewed Commitment?
Gabriel N. Toggenburg and Karen McLaughlin;
B. National Developments
The Kurdish Opening and the Constitutional Reform: Is there any Progress?
Elçin Aktoprak;
Denmark Adopts Unilateral Legislation in Favour of Kin-Minority
Tove H. Malloy;
The Development of Language Legislation in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine: Similarities and Differences
Iryna Ulasiuk;
How to Stop a Perpetuum Mobile? Interdisciplinary Insights into the Ongoing Issue of the Slovene Ethnic Minority in Austria: The Question of Bilingual Topography
Jürgen Pirker;
The Distinction of Minority Language Protection and Languages as a Cultural Heritage in Italy: The Case of the Piedmontese Dialect
Ulrike Haider Quercia;
Part III: Book Reviews
Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (eds.), Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010),
ISBN: 978-0-8122-4230-0 (Hardback)
Francesco Palermo;
Marc Weller, Contested Statehood: Kosovo’s Struggle for Independence (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009), ISBN: 978-0199566167 (Hardback) and James Ker-Lindsay, Kosovo: The Path to Contested Statehood in the Balkans (London: I.B.Tauris, 2009), ISBN: 978-1848850125 (Hardback)
Jan Asmussen;
Annelies Verstichel, Participation, Representation and Identity. The Right of Persons Belonging to Minorities to Effective Participation in Public Affairs: Content, Justification and Limits (Antwerp, Oxford, Portland: Intersentia, 2009), ISBN: 978-9050958400 (Hardback)
Verena Wisthaler;
Appendix: List of International Norms.
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