Introduction

Solidarity is a key concept for higher education decolonial projects engaged with the problematization of hegemony, neoliberal capitalism, patriarchalism, and racism inscribed in the modern process of knowledge production and dissemination. Our objective is to shift the “geography of reason” by making the experiences of the Global Souths central in theory formulation about language in higher education. Generally but without generalizing, the dearth of collaborative projects and interdisciplinary courses on the structure of linguistic programs in the Arab world has enrooted the structuralist conception of language as a self-contained system in the discursive imagination of students. The chapter outlines the opportunities and challenges that decolonization constitutes for language scholarship. Decolonization of universities is a difficult process, but it is feasible to decolonize specific spaces as part of institutional changes. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.