Countering Epistemological and Institutional Racism in Applied Linguistics and TESOL

Title
Countering Epistemological and Institutional Racism in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Publication Date
2027
Author(s)
Ali Shah, Waqar
Meighan, Paul
Veliz, Leonardo
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2489-7484
Email: lveliz@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lveliz
Editor
Editor(s): Leonardo Veliz, Paul Meighan, Waqar Ali Shah and Xuesong Gao
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
Abingdon, United kingdom
Edition
1
DOI
10.4324/9781003630517-32
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/74898
Abstract

Scholars in the field of applied linguistics have drawn attention to epistemic exclusion and racialization that manifest in various practices—academic publishing, hiring practices, linguicism, and institutional discriminatory structures influenced by colonial and neoliberal thinking. As a consequence, they challenge the historical dominance of the North in the field that discriminates against Southern scholarship and researchers in the epistemic/geographic South. These Southern absences in the field necessitate and call for critical engagement with diverse subalternized epistemologies, discourses, and practices in global colonized contexts. Considering this pressing need, this chapter engages in a critical authoring of the “selves” through trio-autoethnography informed by decolonial intersectionality in an attempt to address multiple forms of oppression and develop coalitional consciousness. Thus, we three scholars from the geographic/epistemic South foreground our vulnerabilities and reflections navigating these landscapes. These accounts attest to the systemic barriers and subtle, yet pervasive, forms of racialization that persist within the structures of academia, especially those situated in the Anglo-West. In particular, the chapter highlights our Southern positionalities, traces our lived racialized “selves” and struggles in academia, and discusses strategies for Southern emergences in academia and in the field.

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Citation
The Routledge Handbook of Race and Equity in Applied Linguistics, p. 406-419
ISBN
9781041049081
9781041049135
9781003630517
Start page
406
End page
419

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