ABSTRACT
One of the most influential trends in global literacies studies over the past twenty years has been the emergence and development of multiliteracies. Multiliteracies scholarship recognizes the global, multicultural, and multilingual world in which people live. Multiliteracies work is also inherently local and situated. Although this concept has advanced globally, there has been little uptake in the Global North of the scholarship published in the Global South, particularly in Latin America. To explore these dynamics, the authors analyze in this chapter the geopolitics of knowledge involved in the flows of authorship and citations in the field of multiliteracies studies between the most representative scholars and their work in the Global North and the Global South. The authors claim that more efforts must be made to recognize and make visible the work created in the South to advance the concept of global literacies and subvert the politics of power and prestige involved in academic publication.
