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

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.