Niamh Hourigan is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland.

This is a fine read. The analysis is comparative in the best sense—combining detailed and subtly nuanced accounts of particular 'national' stories with an overview of how the question of minority language issues is now changed, in the broader context of the new European mediascape. The book offers a sophisticated account of the contradictory effects of globalisation in the sphere of culture. In doing so it also illuminates the ways in which social movements have been able, in some instances, to take good advantage of the changing 'political opportunity structure' created by the relative decline in the regulatory powers of the nation-state.

• Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Social Movement Theory Chapter 3 Linguistic Minorities and Television Chapter 4 Indigenous Minority Language Media Campaigns Chapter 5 The Campaign for Irish Language Television Chapter 6 Minority Language Television Services

Niamh Hourigan is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland.

This is a fine read. The analysis is comparative in the best sense—combining detailed and subtly nuanced accounts of particular 'national' stories with an overview of how the question of minority language issues is now changed, in the broader context of the new European mediascape. The book offers a sophisticated account of the contradictory effects of globalisation in the sphere of culture. In doing so it also illuminates the ways in which social movements have been able, in some instances, to take good advantage of the changing 'political opportunity structure' created by the relative decline in the regulatory powers of the nation-state.

• Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Social Movement Theory Chapter 3 Linguistic Minorities and Television Chapter 4 Indigenous Minority Language Media Campaigns Chapter 5 The Campaign for Irish Language Television Chapter 6 Minority Language Television Services

Niamh Hourigan is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland.

This is a fine read. The analysis is comparative in the best sense—combining detailed and subtly nuanced accounts of particular 'national' stories with an overview of how the question of minority language issues is now changed, in the broader context of the new European mediascape. The book offers a sophisticated account of the contradictory effects of globalisation in the sphere of culture. In doing so it also illuminates the ways in which social movements have been able, in some instances, to take good advantage of the changing 'political opportunity structure' created by the relative decline in the regulatory powers of the nation-state.

• Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Social Movement Theory Chapter 3 Linguistic Minorities and Television Chapter 4 Indigenous Minority Language Media Campaigns Chapter 5 The Campaign for Irish Language Television Chapter 6 Minority Language Television Services