Insurgent words: challenging the coloniality of language

Abstract This article explores language ideologies and sociolinguistic scales from the perspective of decolonization. Coloniality is a multi-scalar world system that affects micro-level interactions in multiple locales, both in the metropole and in the former colonies. Not only does coloniality exist on a world scale, resistance to it is scaled up too and engulfs the world. The linguistic tradition that I seek to trace in this article is imaginative, creative and oriented towards alternative decolonial futures. It speaks to the experience of the coloniality of language, of language as alienating and oppressive, and to the corresponding desire, and need, for a different language. It articulates a decolonial philosophy and brings art and politics together to change the world. I show that the global south was, and is, an intellectual-artistic-political vanguard, articulating and shaping discourses about language and revolutionary action. In philosophical, artistic and political practice – stretching from Martinique to Paris, from Cape Town to Kingston – language and revolutionary practice merge into one: language no longer just reflects reality, it can change it.

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BOOK REVIEW: E. San Juan, Jr.BEYOND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. and Bart Moore-Gilbert.POSTCOLONIAL THEORY: CONTEXTS, PRACTICES, POLITICS. London: Verso, 1997. and ed. Anthony D. King.CULTURE, GLOBALIZATION AND THE WORLD-SYSTEM: CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF IDENTITY. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997.

Research in African Literatures ◽

10.2979/ral.2000.31.3.187 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 187-190

Author(s):

Chadwick Allen

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Postcolonial Theory ◽

World System ◽

San Juan ◽

The World

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To the discussion about the modern world order

Diplomatic Service ◽

10.33920/vne-01-2003-05 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 35-41

Author(s):

A. Mustafabeyli

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Intergovernmental Relations ◽

World System ◽

Main Tool ◽

World Order ◽

Modern World ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

The World ◽

And Behavior ◽

Second World

In many political researches there if a conclusion that the world system which was founded after the Second world war is destroyed of chaos. But the world system couldn`t work while the two opposite systems — socialist and capitalist were in hard confrontation. After collapse of the Soviet Union and the European socialist community the nature of intergovernmental relations and behavior of the international community did not change. The power always was and still is the main tool of international communication.

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Spillovers to the Global South

10.1093/oso/9780198797173.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Yilmaz Akyüz

Keyword(s):

World Economy ◽

Commodity Prices ◽

Global South ◽

Capital Inflows ◽

Global Crisis ◽

Advanced Economies ◽

The World ◽

Run Up ◽

Global Growth ◽

Very High

The crisis demolished the myth that EDEs were decoupled from advanced economies and BRICS were becoming new engines of global growth. From 2011 onwards, with the end of the twin booms in commodity prices and capital inflows, growth in EDEs has converged downward towards the depressed levels of advanced economies from the very high levels achieved in the run-up to the global crisis and the immediate aftermath. Loss of momentum is particularly visible in economies that failed to manage the earlier booms prudently. In examining the spillovers from policies in major advanced economies and China to EDEs, the chapter introduces the notion of commodity-finance nexus wherein these markets reinforce each other during both expansions and contractions. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of policies needed to put the world economy into decent shape and to avoid liquidity and debt crises in EDEs.

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Family multilingualism from a southern perspective: Language ideologies and practices of Brazilian parents in Norway

Multilingua ◽

10.1515/multi-2019-0080 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Rafael Lomeu Gomes

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Language Ideologies ◽

Global South ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Interview Data ◽

Language Practices ◽

Epistemic Justice ◽

Intercultural Encounters ◽

Race Ethnicity

AbstractThis article derives from a three-year ethnographic project carried out in Norway focusing on language practices of Brazilian families raising their children multilingually. Analyses of interview data with two Brazilian parents demonstrate the relevance of examining intersectionally the participants’ orientation to categorisations such as social class, gender, and race/ethnicity. Additionally, I explore how parents make sense of their transnational, multilingual experiences, and the extent to which these experiences inform the language-related decisions they make in the home. Advancing family multilingualism research in a novel direction, I employ a southern perspective as an analytical position that: (i) assumes the situatedness of knowledge production; (ii) aims at increasing social and epistemic justice; (iii) opposes the dominance of Western-centric epistemologies; and (iv) sees the global South as a political location, not necessarily geographic, but with many overlaps. Finally, I draw on the notions of intercultural translation and equivocation to discuss the intercultural encounters parents reported. The overarching argument of this article is that forging a southern perspective from which to analyse parental language practices and beliefs offers a theoretical framework that can better address the issues engendered by parents engaged in South–North transnational, multilingual practices.

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Playful mobilities in the Global South: A study of Pokémon Go play in Rio de Janeiro and Nairobi

New Media & Society ◽

10.1177/14614448211016400 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 146144482110164

Author(s):

Adriana de Souza e Silva ◽

Ragan Glover-Rijkse ◽

Anne Njathi ◽

Daniela de Cunto Bueno

Keyword(s):

South America ◽

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Global South ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Ordinary Life ◽

Perceptions Of Risk ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go is the most popular location-based game worldwide. As a location-based game, Pokémon Go’s gameplay is connected to networked urban mobility. However, urban mobility differs significantly around the world. Large metropoles in South America and Africa, for example, experience ingrained social, cultural, and economic inequalities. With this in mind, we interviewed Pokémon Go players in two Global South cities, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Nairobi (Kenya), to understand how players navigate urban spaces not only based on gameplay but with broader concerns for safety. Our findings reveal that players negotiate their urban mobilities based on perceptions of risk and safety, choosing how to move around and avoiding areas known for violence and theft. These findings are relevant for understanding the social and political aspects of networked urban spaces as well as for investigating games as venues through which we can understand ordinary life, racial, gender, and socioeconomic inequalities.

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