The world's languages in crisis / Michael Krauss -- The changing linguistic ecology of the Pacific region / Peter Mühlhäusler -- Why something should be done / Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine -- Linguistic, cultural and biological diversity / Luisa Maffi -- The ecology of language revival / John Edwards -- Language policy and the ecological turn / Alistair Pennycook -- Human rights and language wrongs : a future for diversity? / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas -- English only worldwide or language ecology? / Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas -- Globalizing English : are linguistic human rights an alternative to linguistic imperialism? / Robert Phillipson -- Class, ethnicity and language rights : an analysis of British colonial policy / Janina Brutt-Griffler -- Language rights: moving the debate forward / Stephen May -- Language and ethnic minority rights / Lionel Wee -- Survey article : the justification of minority language rights / Alan Patten -- A liberal democratic approach to language justice / David Laitin and Rob Reich -- The language of democracy : vernacular or Esperanto? : a comparison between the multiculturalist and cosmopolitan perspectives / Daniele Archibugi -- Cosmopolitanism and global English : language politics in globalisation debates / Peter Ives -- Contesting public monolingualism and diglossia : rethinking political theory and language policy for a multilingual world / Stephen May -- Language rights as an integral part of human rights / Fernand de Varennes -- Minority language rights in international law / Robert Dunbar -- Language rights : the "Cinderella" human right / Stephen May -- Language policy, language education, language rights : indigenous, immigrant and international perspectives / Nancy Hornberger -- Native American languages in and out of the safety zone, 1492-2012 / Teresa McCarty -- African mother-tongue programmes and the politics of language : linguistic citizenship versus linguistic human rights / Christopher Stroud -- Multilingualism of the unequals and predicaments of education in India : mother tongue or other tongue? imagining multilingual schools / Ajit Mohanty