The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South/s

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.

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: Biruni’s 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 Hernández



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 Cláudia 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 Mourão Guimarães, 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