The Islamic State: Humiliation, Shame, and Rage in Fundamentalism
Today’s devil incarnate is the militia known as the Islamic State. So far it has done everything in its power to deserve the title. But it is only the latest in a long sequence of adversaries that were considered by the West as the embodiment of evil, never entirely without reason. It seems that in...
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Language Planning – Robert Phillipson vs. Abram de Swaan
To celebrate the launch of their programme in multilingualism the University of Groningen and the University Campus Fryslân organised a seminal event entitled: Multilingualism: The Key Debates on 12 and 13 September 2013. One of the most exciting parts of this event were the debates held between eight internationally acclaimed experts about pivotal issues concerning...
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