Language and Decolonisation

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.

• ForewordChristopher Stroud1. Introduction: Reframing the Struggle for New Decolonial FuturesFinex Ndhlovu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-GatsheniPart 1: Theories, Concepts, Debates2. Multilingualisms in the Global Souths: Shaping Language Scholarship in the Global NorthsSinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook3. Epistemic Reconstitution of Multilingualism: Disrupting and Levelling of Linguistic Hierarchies of PowerFelix Banda and Kelvin Mambwe4. Decolonising the Linguistic Encirclement of AfricaFinex Ndhlovu and Edwin Chris Odhiambo5. Niche Languages: Decolonising Language Use Through Domain Specialisation and Linguistic HarmonyMohammed Zahid Akter and Arvind Iyengar6. Decolonising Competency-based Assessment through Autoethnographic ApproachesLinda McIntosh7. Written into Being: Colonial Language Epistemologies and the Graphocentric StraitjacketArvind Iyengar8. Interrogating Trickster Discourse of Coloniality in Regimes of Language TestingFinex NdhlovuPart 2: Critical Reflections, Empirical Studies, Applications9. Decolonising Languages and Literacies in Education: The Case of KenyaRose Njoki Mutuota and Mutuota Kigotho10. Situating Decolonisation of Languages and Literacies Education in the South PacificPrashneel Ravisan Goundar11. Unsettling Coloniality of Language: English in Contexts Colonized by Other LanguagesHamza R’boul12. From Spark to Flame: Decolonising Linguistics and the Creation of First Nations Medical MediaGlenys Collard and Celeste Rodríguez Louro13. Coloniality and Australian Indigenous Language Interpreting in Legal SettingsDima Rusho14. The Liberated Libretto: Engaging the Operatic Voice and the Multilingual Modes of SingingPaul Smith15. From Linguistic Resistance to Re-existence: Pretuguês as an Anti-racist Perspective on LanguageJoel Windle and Gabriel Nascimento16. From Post-Revolutionary “Glottophobia” to The Bill Against “Accent Discrimination”: France’s Tortuous Journey Towards Linguistic DiversityValentina Gosetti17. On the Invisibility of Russian Imperialism: Russian Studies in the WestTomasz Kamusella18. KwaMunyasa: Problematising Coloniality of Citizenship in ZimbabweAaron Sigauke19. Decolonising African Migrant Languages in the Australian Market EconomyVera Williams Tetteh and Sithembinkosi Dube20. Conclusion: Revisiting the True Purpose of Decolonizing KnowledgeFinex Ndhlovu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-GatsheniAfterword: Decoloniality and the Politics of Southern VoicesCristine severo and Ashraf Abdelhay