Coloniality in Discourse Studies

A Radical Critique

Solange Maria de Barros, Viviane Resende, Solange Maria de Barros, Viviane Resende

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032324609
• eBook ISBN: 9781000641479
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It brings together an extensive interdisciplinary dialogue that reveals what different research fields – such as sociology of language, social psychology, history and political science, among others – have to say about discourse criticism and de/coloniality. In doing so, it also invites a critique of critical thinking, acknowledging the relevance of dissonant voices that arise from this debate.

The essays in this volume discuss possibilities to decolonize discursive studies without losing sight of its contradictions. The book delves into how one can, as an intellectual who enjoys the privileges of coloniality in academic environments of the Global North, deal with the limitations and paradox of a radical critique through discourse. It discusses how ideas, entrenched in privilege, can be extracted, shared and applied while ensuring the radicality of their local contextualization. These ideas then must not only make sense within themselves but also resonate with other contexts, readings and peoples, in the South, without repeating the mistakes of hermetic scholarly lexicons.

A key reading on decoloniality, critical thinking, methodologies, ideas, ideologies, language and critical discourse analysis, this volume will be of immense interest to scholar and researchers of language and literature, political science, the social sciences and Global South Studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Ethical critique in critical discourse analysis: coloniality of power-knowledge-being
• 2 The paradoxical space: Global South academia between subordination and priviledge
• 3 Intermittence in educational research: the relative exhaustion of both colonial and decolonial grand narratives
• 4 Intersecting afroperspective thinking and critical discourse analysis: possibilities to decolonize discursive studies
• 5 Can the coloniser(ed) speak? Some reflections on language and decoloniality
• 6 A cartography of the precarious academic condition: collectivizing limits, tensions, and possibilities of criticality
• 7 Discourse and colonial-modern gender systems: methodological-theoretical reflections
• 8 Collaborative biographical methodologies in language ideologies critical studies
• 9 Transcultural decoloniality, global hip hop and reflexive narrative analysis
• Index