Description
Book SynopsisIn the wake of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, #rhodesmustfall and the Covid-19 pandemic, this groundbreaking book echoes the growing demand for decolonization of the production and dissemination of academic knowledge. Reflecting the dynamic and collaborative nature of online discussion, this conversational book features interviews with globally-renowned scholars working on language and race and the interactive discussion that followed and accompanied these interviews. Participants address issues including decoloniality; the interface of language, development and higher education; race and ethnicity in the justice system; lateral thinking and the intellectual history of linguistics; and race and gender in a biopolitics of knowledge production. Their discussion crosses disciplinary boundaries and is a vital step towards fracturing racialized and gendered epistemic systems and creating a decolonized academia.
Trade ReviewThis collection of chapters and comments provides potent and polyphonic examples of how collaborative thinking may contribute to decolonizing our structures of knowledge production and dissemination. By focusing on global and common themes, this book opens up space for an ethical and political dialogue between the North and the South. It offers inspiring examples on how we can challenge the capitalist face of scholarship. * Cristine Severo, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil *
How sociolinguistics would look if it were conceptualized through Southern discourses is the running thread throughout not just this volume but, so far, the entire decolonial series of the Global Forum from which the volume is derived. This book is a must-read for scholars in both the North and South interested in the decolonizing of Northern sociolinguistics. * Ashraf Abdelhay, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar *
This book is a thorough deconstruction and articulation of complex topics including language, decolonization, race, struggle, justice, Black bodies, and the role of language in judicial proceedings.
* Adesoji Babalola, Queen’s University, Canada, Language in Society 53 (2024) *
Table of ContentsContributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Sinfree Makoni, Magda Madany-Saa, Bassey E. Antia, Rafael Lomeu Gomes: Introduction
Chapter 1. Kwesi Kwaa Prah: Language and Decolonization in Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa
Chapter 2. Christopher Hutton: Linguistics, Race and Fascism
Chapter 3. Monica Heller and Bonnie McElhinny: Struggle, Voice, Justice: A Conversation and Some Words of Caution about the Sociolinguistics We Hope For
Chapter 4. Robbie Shilliam: Black Bodies
Chapter 5. John Baugh: Linguistics for Legal Purposes
Bassey E. Antia: Epilogue: Transcending Metonymic Reason: Foregrounding Southern Coordinates of Sociolinguistic Thought and Rethinking Academic Cultures
Index
