ABSTRACT

This Handbook centers on language(s) in the Global South/s and the many ways in which both "language" and the "Global South" are conceptualized, theorized, practiced, and reshaped.

Drawing on 31 chapters situated in diverse geographical contexts, and four additional interviews with leading scholars, this text showcases:

  • Issues of decolonization
  • Promotion of Southern epistemologies and theories of the Global South/s
  • A focus on social/applied linguistics
  • An added focus on the academy
  • A nuanced understanding of global language scholarship.

It is written for emerging and established scholars across the globe as it positions Southern epistemologies, language scholarship, and decolonial theories into scholarship surrounding multiple themes and global perspectives.

part Theme #1|76 pages

History, Politics, and Social Engagement in the Global South

chapter 1|11 pages

Languaging Hope

The Transgressive Temporality of Marielle Franco in Brazil

chapter 2|15 pages

Epistemology of Knowledge in Medieval Islamic Scientific Discourse

Biruni's Treatment of Subjectivity, Relativity, and Uncertainty

part Theme #2|42 pages

Indigenous Languages

chapter 5|15 pages

Co-conspiring with Land

What Decolonizing with Indigenous Land and Language Have to Teach Us 1

chapter 6|11 pages

“We Tell the River, ‘Give Me Back My Piece of Soul and I Give You Back Your Pebble'”

The Onto-Epistemology and Language of the Ayuk Ethnic Group in Oaxaca, Mexico

chapter 7|14 pages

Discourses of Endangerment and Appropriations of the “Indigenous”

What Indigeneity Means in Non-Indigenous Spaces

part Theme #3|52 pages

South–South Dialogue

chapter 8|10 pages

‘The Language I Speak Is the Language I Speak'

Re-centering Multilingual Language Practices in Situations of Risk Through a Sociolinguistics of the South

chapter 9|11 pages

English and the Dissemination of Local Knowledges

A Problematic for South–South Dialogue

chapter 10|11 pages

Multilingualism in a Decolonial Way

A Gaze from the Ryukyus

chapter 11|11 pages

Tensions within Development Ontologies in Botswana

A Case of the San

part Theme #5|62 pages

Language, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality

chapter 16|17 pages

Perfect Muslim Bhadramahila / Lady in Bangladesh

Decoloniality in/as Praxis

chapter 18|11 pages

Colonial Intertexts and Black Femininities

Locating Black African Women in a Racialized Iconography of Knowledge

part Theme #6|38 pages

Language, the Global South, and the “Family”

part Theme #7|46 pages

Language in the Classroom Context

chapter 22|12 pages

Defying the Abyssal Line

Towards el Buenvivir in English Language Teaching in Colombia

chapter 24|13 pages

Southern Visions of Language Policy

Re-visioning Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education in Ghana

part Theme #8|107 pages

Towards Multiple Language Ontologies and Southern Multilingualisms

part Sub Theme #1|44 pages

Philosophical/ theoretical developments

chapter 25|13 pages

On Naming Traditions

Losing Sight of Communicative and Democratic Agendas When Language Is Loose Inside and Outside Institutional-scapes

chapter 26|13 pages

Palimpsest of Tangled Dramas

Language and Education Beyond Institutional Formations

part Sub Theme #2|34 pages

Land and Nature

chapter 28|15 pages

Beyond the ‘Linguistic' and ‘Signboard'

Expanding the Repertoire of Linguistic Landscape Signage to Include Sparsely Populated Areas in South Africa

chapter 29|17 pages

Abstract Critical Thinking, Language and School Vegetable Gardens

Improving the Cacaio Garden of Education and Praxis

part Sub Theme #3|16 pages

Technology

chapter 30|14 pages

(Written) Online Multilingualism in Technology Mediated Communication

Appropriating and Remixing Digital Literacies and Technolinguistic Repertoires

part Sub Theme #4|11 pages

Migration and Power

chapter 31|9 pages

Dismantling Power Relations in Refugee Service

Funds of Knowledge as Resistive Power

chapter |5 pages

Afterword

Reflecting and Refracting the South