In the wake of #Me Too, 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.
Table of Content
Contributors
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 Mc Elhinny: 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
About the author
Rafael Lomeu Gomes is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Multi Ling – Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan in the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests include multilingualism, social theory, immigration, digitally-mediated communication, and media discourses.
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