ECMI Workshop on the Definition of “Minority”
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 16 pages, pdf Description: The workshop involved an interdisciplinary team of researchers (such as specialists in politics, international relations, law, and sociology) who came together to discuss how to proceed from a shared understanding of definitions as contingent fixations of meaning within a particular law and policy domain in this case national minority rights in Europe. Participants came together on the assumption that no definition can ensure that a particular meaning will prevail forever, and that there are always alternative meanings which may challenge and transform the prevailing definition.