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.
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.
Table of Contents
Handbook of Language and the Global South/s
Preface by Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza
Introduction by Sinfree Makoni, Anna Kaiper-Marquez, Lorato Mokwena
Theme #1: History, Politics, and Social Engagement in the Global South
Chapter 1
Languaging Hope: The Transgressive Temporality of Marielle Franco in Brazil
by Samiha Khalil, Daniel Silva, Jerry Won Lee
Chapter 2
Epistemology of Knowledge in Medieval Islamic Scientific Discourse: Birunis
Treatment of Subjectivity, Relativity, and Uncertainty by Esmat Babaii
Chapter 3
From Order-of-Language to Provincializing language by Cecile Canut
Chapter 4
Civic Participation as a Travelling Ideoscape: Which Direction? By Giovanni
Allegretti, Marco Meloni, Begona Dorronsoro
Interlude #1: Conversation with Jean Comaroff and Jane Gordon
Theme #2: Indigenous Languages
Chapter 5
Co-Conspiring with Land: What Decolonizing with Indigenous Land and Language
Have to Teach Us by Mary Hermes, Mel Engman, Anna Schick
Chapter 6
"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 by Mario E. López-Gopar, William M. Sughrua, Cosme Gregorio
Cirilo & Lorena Córdova Hernįndez
Chapter 7
Discourses of Endangerment and Appropriations of the "Indigenous": What
Indigeneity Means in Non-Indigenous Spaces by Quentin Boitel
Theme #3: South-South Dialogue
Chapter 8
The language I speak is the language I speak: Re-centering multilingual
language practices in situations of risk through a sociolinguistics of the
South by Necia Stanford-Billinghurst
Chapter 9
English and the Dissemination of Local Knowledges: A problematic for
South-South Dialogue by Hamza R'boul
Chapter 10
Multilingualism in a Decolonial Way: A Gaze from the Ryukyus by Madoka
Hammine
Chapter 11
Tensions within development ontologies in Botswana: A case of the San by
Keneilwe Molosi-France
Interlude #2: Conversation with Diana Jeater
Theme #4: Race and Language: Critical Race Theories and Southern Theories.
Chapter 12
Race and Slavery Entextualizations in Contemporary Ads in the Brazilian
Context by Glenda Cristina Valim de Melo
Chapter 13
Language Practices in Afro-Brazilian Religions: On Legitrinmacy, Oral
Tradition, and Racial Issues by Cristine G. Severo, Ana Clįudia F. Eltermann,
and Sinfree Makoni
Chapter 14
For a Critical Applied Linguistics Articulated to the Praxiology of Hope by
Kleber Aparecido da Silva, Helenice Joviano Roque-Faria, Rosana Helena Nunes,
Lauro Sérgio Machado Pereira, Renata Mourćo Guimarćes, and Dllubia Santclair
Theme #5: Language, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
Chapter 15
Affective practice in language and sexuality research methodologies at
North/South intersections: Narrative, dissonance and reflexivity by Benedict
J.L. Rowlett
Chapter 16
Perfect Muslim bhadramahila / Lady: Decoloniality in/ as Praxis by Shaila
Sultana
Chapter 17
Bodies, Languages, and Material Conditions Governing the Interaction by Joana
Plaza Pinto
Chapter 18
Colonial intertexts and black femininities: Locating black African women in a
racialized iconography of knowledge by Busi Makoni
Interlude #3: Conversation with Busi Makoni
Theme #6: Language, the Global South, and the "Family"
Chapter 19
Southern Approaches to Family Multilingualism by Rafael Lomeu Gomes &
Elizabeth Lanza
Chapter 20
Language Maintenance and the Transmission of Ideologies among
Chinese-Malaysian Families by Teresa Ong and Selim Ben Said
Chapter 21
Expanding "good" mother discourse: Examining motherhood within the context of
Opioid Use Disorder by Tabitha Stickel, Brandn Green, Kristal Jones
Theme #7: Language in the Classroom Context
Chapter 22
Defying the abyssal line: Towards el Buenvivir in English language teaching
in Colombia by Yecid Ortega
Chapter 23
Representation of Afro-descendants in a Primary School Lesson Plan in Buenos
Aires by Antonela Soledad Vaccaro
Chapter 24
Southern Visions of Language policy: Re-visioning Mother Tongue based
Bilingual Ed in Ghana by Mama Adobea Adjetey-Nii Owoo
Interlude #4: Conversation with Ophelia Garcia
Theme #8: Towards Multiple Language Ontologies and Southern Multilingualisms
Philosophical/theoretical developments:
Chapter 25
On Naming Traditions: Losing sight of communicative and democratic agendas
when language is loose inside and outside institutional-scapes by Sangeeta
Bagga Gupta
Chapter 26
Palimpset of Tangled Dramas: Language and Education Beyond Institutional
Formations by Desmond Ikenna Odugu
Chapter 27
Anangu literacy practices unsettle northern models of literacy by Janet
Armitage
Land and Nature
Chapter 28
Beyond the linguistic and signboard Expanding the repertoire of
linguistic landscape signage to include sparsely populated areas in South
Africa by Lorato Mokwena
Chapter 29
Abstract Critical Thinking, Language and School Vegetable Gardens: Improving
the Cacaio garden of education and prais by Atila Torres Calvente
Technology
Chapter 30
(Written) Online Multilingualism in Technology Mediated Communication:
Appropriating and Remixing Digital Literacies and Technolinguistic
Repertoires by Sibusiso Cliff Ndlangamandla
Migration and Power
Chapter 31
Dismantling power relations in refugee service: Funds of knowledge as
resistive power by Cassie Leymarie, Mary Bohn
Afterword: Reflecting and Refracting the South by Ana Deumert
Index
Sinfree Makoni is Professor in Applied Linguistics and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He has published extensively on language policy and planning, health communication, and decoloniality and southern epistemologies. His recent book co-authored with Alistair Pennycook, Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South, was shortlisted by the British Association of Applied Linguistics.
Anna Kaiper-Marquez is an Associate Director and Assistant Teaching Professor at the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy and the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Pennsylvania State University, USA. Her research interests include adult literacy, English language learning, and domestic work worldwide.
Lorato Mokwena is based in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research passion involves linguistic landscape with a niche focus on orality. Her latest publication explored how the use of oral route directions problematizes the conceptual distinction between "urban" and "rural" spaces.
