Escaping the Global Village : Media, Language, and Protest

In the face of expanding global media, Europe's linguistic minorities have begun to resist the homogenizing forces of television.

Escaping the Global Village documents and analyzes various campaigns by indigenous minority language advocates throughout Europe for alternative language television services.

Author Niamh Hourigan uses social movement theory as the framework for her comparison of indigenous minority language protest groups such as the Welsh, Basque, Scots Gaelic, Catalan, and Irish.

She also offers penetrating analyses of the television services that were the results of many of these protests, and insightful accounts of the campaigns themeselves.