1st Edition
Language and Decolonisation An Interdisciplinary Approach
Language and Decolonisation is the first collection to bring together views from across scholarly communities that are committed to the agenda of decolonising knowledge in language study. Edited by leading figures in the field, the chapters offer new insights on how ‘decolonising’ can be adopted as a methodology for charting the next steps in solving practical language-related problems in educational and related social policy areas. Divided into two sections, the book covers the coloniality of language, the materiality of culture and colonial scripts, the decolonisation imperative, multilingualism discourse and decolonisation, and decolonising languages in public discourse. With 20 chapters authored by experts from across the globe, this pioneering collection is an essential reference and resource for advanced students, scholars, and researchers of language and culture, sociolinguistics, decolonial studies, racial studies, and related areas.
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface
1. Introduction—Reframing the Struggle for New Decolonial Futures
Finex Ndhlovu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Part 1—Theories, Concepts, Debates
2. Multilingualisms in the Global Souths: Shaping Language Scholarship in the Global Norths
Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook
3. Epistemic reconstitution of multilingualism: Disrupting and Levelling of Linguistic Hierarchies of Power
Felix Banda and Kelvin Mambwe
4. Decolonising the Linguistic Encirclement of Africa
Finex Ndhlovu and Edwin Chris Odhiambo
5. Niche Languages: Decolonising Language Use Through Domain Specialisation and Linguistic Harmony
Mohammed Zahid Akter and Arvind Iyengar
6. Decolonising Competency-based Assessment through Autoethnographic Approaches
Linda McIntosh
7. Written into Being: Colonial Language Epistemologies and the Graphocentric Straitjacket
Arvind Iyengar
8. Interrogating Trickster Discourse of Coloniality in Regimes of Language Testing
Finex Ndhlovu
Part 2—Critical Reflections, Empirical Studies, Applications
9. Decolonising Languages and Literacies in Education: The Case of Kenya
Rose Njoki Mutuota and Mutuota Kigotho
10. Situating Decolonisation of Languages and Literacies Education in the South Pacific
Prashneel Ravisan Goundar
11. Unsettling Coloniality of Language: English in Contexts Colonized by Other Languages
Hamza R’boul
12. From Spark to Flame: Decolonising Linguistics and the Creation of First Nations Medical Media
Glenys Collard and Celeste Rodríguez Louro
13. Coloniality and Australian Indigenous Language Interpreting in Legal Settings
Dima Rusho
14. The Liberated Libretto: Engaging the Operatic Voice and the Multilingual Modes of Singing
Paul Smith
15. From Linguistic Resistance to Re-existence: Pretuguês as an Anti-racist Perspective on Language
Joel Windle and Gabriel Nascimento
16. From Post-Revolutionary “Glottophobia” to The Bill Against “Accent Discrimination”: France’s Tortuous Journey Towards Linguistic Diversity
Valentina Gosetti
17. On the Invisibility of Russian Imperialism: Russian Studies in the West
Tomasz Kamusella
18. KwaMunyasa: Problematising Coloniality of Citizenship in Zimbabwe
Aaron Sigauke
19. Decolonising African Migrant Languages in the Australian Market Economy
Vera Williams Tetteh & Sithembinkosi Dube
20. Conclusion—Revisiting the True Purpose of Decolonizing Knowledge
Finex Ndhlovu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Index
Biography
Finex Ndhlovu is Associate Professor of Language in Society in the School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences at the University of New England, Australia. Finex’s latest major publication is Pan-African Integration from Below: Language, Publics, Culture.
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Professor/Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa and Vice-Dean of Research of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. His latest major publication is Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South.
