Ana Deumert is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research is located in the broad field of African sociolinguistics and has a strong transdisciplinary focus. She is co-editor of Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship (2022, Multilingual Matters) and Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics: Knowledges and Epistemes (2020, Oxford University Press).Sinfree Makoni is Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Program in African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA, and is an Extraordinary Professor at North West University and University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. His main research interests are language and politics and Southern Theories. He is co-editor of the Multilingual Matters series Global Forum on Southern Epistemologies.

• ContributorsPrefaceChapter 1. Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni: Introduction: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing SociolinguisticsChapter 2. Jaspal Naveel Singh: ‘Purifying’ Hindi Translanguaging from English and Urdu Emblems: A Sociolinguistic Decolonization of the Hindu Right?Chapter 3. Pia Lane: The South in the North: Colonization and Decolonization of the MindChapter 4. Conversation with Ellen CushmanChapter 5. Alastair Pennycook: From Douglas Firs to Giant Cuttlefish: Reimagining Language Learning Chapter 6. Nana Aba Appiah Amfo and Dorothy Pokua Agyepong: Making the Secular Sacred: Sociolinguistic Domains and Performance in Christian WorshipChapter 7. Cristine Severo and Sinfree Makoni: The Relevance of Experience: Decolonial and Southern Indigenous Perspectives of LanguageChapter 8. Alan S.R. Carneiro and Daniel N. Silva: From Anthropophagy to the Anthropocene: On the Challenges of Doing Research in Language and Society in Brazil and the Global South Chapter 9. Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor: Localizing National Multilingualism in Some Countries in East AfricaChapter 10. Conversation with Lynn Mario Menezes De SouzaChapter 11. Sibonile Mpendukana and Christopher Stroud: Thoughts on 'Love' and Linguistic Citizenship in Decolonial (Socio)linguisticsChapter 12. Marcelyn Oostendorp: ‘Sociolinguistics Maak My Skaam [Sociolinguistics Makes Me Ashamed]’: Humour as Decolonial Methodology Chapter 13.  Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni: Decolonial Praxis and Pedagogy in Sociolinguistics: Concluding ReflectionsChapter 14. Crispin Thurlow: Commentary: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics – A Radical ListeningChapter 15. Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta: Commentary: Mobile Gazing, On Ethical Viability and Epistemological SustainabilityIndex

This book is a bold and timely contribution to debates about the role of power, privilege and perspective in the creation of knowledge. Particularly impressive is how contributors weave moving and personal stories of their experiences as scholars together with their empirically rich and theoretically complex accounts of their scholarship. This volume is a generously provocative intervention that provides a compass for future journeys in the field.