Decolonizing applied linguistics in Africa and its diasporas: disrupting the center

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/15427587.2023.2255324?src=getftr" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/15427587.2023.2255324?src=getftr</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2023.2255324" target="_blank" >10.1080/15427587.2023.2255324</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Decolonizing applied linguistics in Africa and its diasporas: disrupting the center

Original language description

The decolonization of applied linguistics is a critique of applied linguistics (see Phillipson, 1999; Phipps, 2018 and Pennycook &amp; Makoni, 2020). We argue for a shift toward the Global South, in particular Africa, and for the importance of paying attention to ‘race’ as a significant category of analysis in applied linguistics in Africa. Three points require attention in a decolonized applied linguistics: 1) The identification of northern sociolinguistic theories masked as universal and a shift toward Southern frameworks, 2) The acknowledgment of ‘white privilege’ and ‘white fragility’ in language studies, more generally, and the inclusion of ‘race’ as a category of analysis among authors, and 3) The under-representation of female African scholars. The challenges transcend an agenda that redresses exclusions, and the colonial past of linguistics and location in neoliberal times. We question principles underlying applied linguistics in the Global North, often based on patriarchal and capitalist impositions, and epistemological racism in applied linguistics. We argue for a decolonized applied linguistics which draws from indigenous cosmovisions. These cosmovisions sidestep the dualism that is typical of Global North scholarship: individual/collective, body/mind. We show that Euro-American applied linguistics is evolving toward Africa in particular fields

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-19820S" target="_blank" >GA22-19820S: Language and ‘Race’ Identities among Africans and Afro-Czechs in the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Critical Inquiry in Language Studies

ISSN

1542-7587

e-ISSN

1542-7595

Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

285-306

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85169897630