Colonizability and Hermeneutical Injustice in Applied Linguistics Research: (Im)Possibilities for Epistemological Delinking

Autor/inn/en	Barnawi, Osman Z.; R'boul, Hamza
Titel	Colonizability and Hermeneutical Injustice in Applied Linguistics Research: (Im)Possibilities for Epistemological Delinking
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 44 (2023) 5, S.865-881 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Barnawi, Osman Z.) ORCID (R'boul, Hamza)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
DOI	10.1093/applin/amad047
Schlagwörter	Decolonization; Hermeneutics; Applied Linguistics; Language Research; Epistemology; Foreign Countries; Colonialism; South America + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Dekolonisation; Entkolonialisierung; Hermeneutik; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Sprachforschung; Erkenntnistheorie; Ausland; Kolonialismus; Südamerika
Abstract	The field of applied linguistics is a remarkable case of deep intersection of the skewed geopolitics of knowledge (epistemic inequalities) and language (the ascendency of English as both a topic of research and academic lingua franca). The dominance of the Anglo-sphere through epistemology and language in applied linguistics renders the process of decolonization even more problematic than in other fields, for the only available tools to decolonize are those of coloniality. We argue that despite the end of formal decolonization and the incessant decolonial impulses, the Global South(s) may be still colonizable. Through ages of epistemic dominance, the Global South(s) may have encountered some tensions and challenges to exercise and legitimize ways of theorizing and doing applied linguistics research "otherwise." That is, these alternative visions and praxis may again be underpinned by western traditions of thought that have shaped their foundational understandings of what language, linguistics, and practicality are. Epistemological delinking may be impossible as long as decoloniality itself is enunciated through the dominant voices and channels and according to the rationalities against which decoloniality in applied linguistics has been made to be understood. We go beyond the usual question of whether decolonization is possible, to ask: What decolonialities are possible to account for the Global South(s) and their varying degrees of colonizability? We employ what we term 'collective introspection-retrospection' as an epistemological journey of re-knowing, re-feeling, re-sensing, and re-imagining alternative epistemologies in applied linguistics. (As Provided).
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