Language and Decolonisation

Foreword

Christopher Stroud

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 Râboul

12. From Spark to Flame: Decolonising Linguistics and the Creation of First Nations Medical Media

Glenys Collard and Celeste Rodr­guez 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: Pretuguªs as an Anti-racist Perspective on Language

Joel Windle and Gabriel Nascimento

16. From Post-Revolutionary âGlottophobiaâ to The Bill Against âAccent Discriminationâ: Franceâs 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 and Sithembinkosi Dube

20. Conclusion: Revisiting the True Purpose of Decolonizing Knowledge

Finex Ndhlovu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Afterword: Decoloniality and the Politics of Southern Voices

Cristine severo and Ashraf Abdelhay