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Podcast: New Books in Political Science
Episode: Can We Ever Unthink Linguistic Nationalism?
Description: Ingrid Piller speaks with Aneta Pavlenko about multilingualism through the ages.We start from the question whether the world today is more multilingual than it was ever before. Spoiler alert: we quickly conclude that no, it is not.One of the reasons why the world may seem more multilingual today than in the past lies in the European nationalist project, which culminated in the âpopulation exchangesâ of the 20th century â the great âunmixing of peoplesâ, as Lord Curzon called it.As a result, languages became associated with nations and this linguistic nationalism continues to guide views...