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Decolonizing Linguistics, the companion volume to Inclusion in Linguistics, is designed to uncover and intervene in the history and ongoing legacy of colonization and colonial thinking in linguistics and related fields. Taken together, the two volumes are the first comprehensive, action-oriented, book-length discussions of how to advance social justice in all aspects of the discipline.
The introduction to Decolonizing Linguistics theorizes decolonization as the process of centering Black, Native, and Indigenous perspectives, describes the extensive dialogic and collaborative process through which the volume was developed, and lays out key principles for decolonizing linguistic research and teaching. The twenty chapters cover a wide range of languages and linguistic contexts (e.g., Bantu languages, Creoles, Dominican Spanish, Francophone Africa, Zapotec) as well as various disciplines and subfields (applied linguistics, communication, historical linguistics, language documentation and revitalization/reclamation, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax).
Contributors address such topics as refusing settler-colonial practices and centering community goals in research on Indigenous languages; decolonizing research partnerships between the Global South and the Global North; and prioritizing Black Diasporic perspectives in linguistics. The volume's conclusion lays out specific actions that linguists can take through research, teaching, and institutional structures to refuse coloniality in linguistics and to move the field toward a decolonized future.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Decolonizing Linguistics
Anne H. Charity Hudley, Ignacio L. Montoya, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz
Part 1: Decolonizing Linguistics and the Academy
1. Manifestations of Colonialism in Linguistics and Opportunities for Decolonization Through Refusal
Ignacio L. Montoya
2. Racialization, Language Science, and Nineteenth-Century Anthropometrics
Margaret Thomas
3. The Colonial Geography of Linguistics: A View from the Caribbean
Ben Braithwaite and Kristian Ali
4. We Like the Idea of You But Not the Reality of You: The Whole Scholar as Disruptor of Default Colonial Practices in Linguistics
Nicté Fuller Medina
5. Apolitical Linguistics Doesn>'t Exist, and It Shouldn>'t: Developing a Black Feminist Praxis Toward Political Transparency
Aris Moreno Clemons
6. Unpacking Experiences of Racism in European Applied Linguistics
Kamran Khan
7. Centering Race and Multilingualism in French Linguistics
Maya Angela Smith
8. Decolonizing (Psycho)linguistics Means Dropping the Language Gap Rhetoric
Megan Figueroa
Part 2: Decolonizing Methods of Teaching and Research
9. From Gatekeeping to Inclusion in the Introductory Linguistics Curriculum: Decolonizing Our Teaching, Our Psyches, Our Institutions, and Our Field
Lynnette Arnold
10. Decolonizing Historical Linguistics in the Classroom and Beyond
Claire Bowern and Rikker Dockum
11. Towards a Decolonial Syntax: Research, Teaching, Publishing
Hannah Gibson, Kyle Jerro, Savithry Namboodiripad, and Kristina Riedel
12. Decolonising Methodologies Through Collaboration: Reflections on Partnerships and Funding Flows from Working Between the South and the North
Rajendra Chetty, Hannah Gibson, and Colin Reilly
13. Open Methods: Decolonizing (or Not) Research Methods in Linguistics
Dan Villarreal and Lauren Collister
14. Revitalizing Attitudes Toward Creole Languages
Ariana Bancu, Joy P. G. Peltier, Felicia Bisnath, Danielle Burgess, Sophia Eakins, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Moira Saltzman, Yourdanis Sedarous, Alicia Stevers, and Marlyse Baptista
Part 3: Decolonizing Research by Centering Community and Activism
15. Solidarity and Collectivity in Decolonizing Linguistics: A Black Diasporic Perspective
Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, Kahdeidra Monét Martin, Aris Moreno Clemons, L. J. Randolph Jr., Mary Bucholtz, Kendra Calhoun, Shenika Hankerson, Joy P. G. Peltier, Jamie A. Thomas, Deana Lacy McQuitty, and Kara Seidel
16. Growing a Bigger Linguistics Through a Zapotec Agenda: The Ticha Project
May Helena Plumb, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Moisés García Guzmán, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, and Felipe H. Lopez
17. Decolonizing Creolistics Through Popular Culture: The Case of Dancehall
Rashana Vikara Lydner
18. Prioritizing Community Partners>' Goals in Projects to Support Indigenous Language Revitalization
Katherine J. Riestenberg, Ally Freemond, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, and Jonathan N. Washington
19. Promoting Decolonized Classrooms Through an Introductory Linguistics Course for Future Teachers in Alaska
Ève Ryan, Matt Ford, and Giovanna Wilde
20. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Language Activism from Community Colleges: Linguistics Meets Communication Studies
Carlos de Cuba, Poppy Slocum, and Laura Spinu
Conclusion: Decolonizing Linguistics
Anne H. Charity Hudley, Ignacio L. Montoya, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz
