What is it about?
The forces of globalisation and empire are inexorably interconnected with English as a global language. English has been de-territorialised and indigenised in a way that has considerably transformed Southern local identities. First, theoretical constructs related to English as an international language and the concept of (de)coloniality are dened. Then, decolonial projects associated with the need to regenerate Indigenous knowledges and the pluriversal modes of thinking are brie y outlined in relation to educational and academic spaces. Finally, it is argued that hegemonic Eurocentric knowledge systems have always been inextricably linked to colonialist thinking in the ways they have misrepresented, demonised, problematised, and pathologised cultural others.
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Why is it important?
The study shows how the global multifaceted system of control, domination and exploitation has helped to perpetuate the long-standing ideological blueprints, structural conditions, and frameworks of colonial orders conspicuously visible in the (neo)colonial situations and discourses that are entrenched in the way the ex-colonisers’ hegemonic narratives help in the shaping of historical memories of the ex-colonised peoples through an imperial lens.
Perspectives
The decolonial projects have been based on the Southern scholars’ argument that writing from a Southern perspective allows for a regeneration of Indigenous knowledge and thinking and a continued growth within an Indigenous research paradigm.
Dr Ahmed Sahlane
University of Jeddah
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This page is a summary of: (De)Coloniality, Indigeneity and the Cultural Politics of English as an International Language: A Quest for the ‘Third Space’, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34702-3_1.
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