Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics
Knowledges and Epistemes
Edited by Ana Deumert, Anne Storch, and Nick Shepherd
Author Information
Edited by Ana Deumert, Professor, School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town, Anne Storch, Professor, Institut für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie, University of Cologne, and Nick Shepherd, Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
Ana Deumert is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town. She works within the broad field of sociocultural linguistics, with a strong transdisciplinary focus. Her current work explores the use of language in global political movements as well as the contributions that de-/anti-colonial thought can make to (socio)linguistic theory. Her many publications include Introducing Sociolinguistics (with Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, and William Leap; Benjamins, 2009) and Sociolinguistics and Mobile Communication (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). She is a recipient of the Neville Alexander Award for the Promotion of Multilingualism (2014) and the Humboldt Research Award (2016).
Anne Storch is Professor of African Linguistics at the University of Cologne. Her work combines contributions on cultural and social contexts of languages, the semiotics of linguistic practices, colonial linguistics, epistemic language and metalinguistics, and linguistic description. Her publications include Secret Manipulations (OUP, 2011), A Grammar of Luwo (Benjamins, 2014), and Language and Tourism in Postcolonial Settings (with Angelika Mietzner; Channel View, 2019), She is co-editor of the journal The Mouth and a recipient of the Leibniz Prize (2017).
Nick Shepherd is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Aarhus University and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria. His current projects are focused on walking as a form of embodied research practice, and on the politics and poetics of water in the Anthropocene. He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, Brown University, the University of Basel, and Colgate University. His recent publications include After Ethics: Ancestral Voices and Post-Disciplinary Worlds in Archaeology (with Alejandro Haber; Springer, 2014) and The Mirror in the Ground: Archaeology, Photography and the Making of a Disciplinary Archive (Jonathan Ball, 2015).
Contributors:
Reem Bassiouney, American University Cairo
Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney
Ana Deumert, University of Cape Town
Pegah Faghiri, University of Cologne
Nicholas Faraclas, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Cristine Gorski Severo, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Anette Hoffmann, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and University of Cape Town
Andrea Hollington, University of Cologne
S. Imtiaz Hasnain, Aligarh Muslim University
Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi, Deccan College, Pune
Sinfree Makoni, Pennsylvania State University
Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town
Bettina Migge, University College Dublin
Walter Mignolo, Duke University
Katharina Monz, University of Cologne
Salikoko S. Mufwene, University of Chicago
Ricardo Roque, University of Lisbon and University of Sydney
Nick Shepherd, Aarhus University and Pretoria University
Anne Storch, University of Cologne
Christopher Stroud, University of the Western Cape
Ingo H. Warnke, University of Bremen
