This book, which combines scholarly articles with interviews, seeks to imagine a
decolonized sociolinguistics. All the chapters are firmly grounded in southern approaches to …

This essay studies papo reto (straight talk) activist register as an enregistered social
formation that indexes practices, relations, and personae belonging in Brazil's favelas (low …

This article draws from our ethnography in the Complexo do Alemão favelas
(neighborhoods built by residents) in Rio de Janeiro to discuss how Black activists bring …

This chapter argues that (in) securitization–“making 'enemy'and 'fear'the integrative,
energetic principle of politics”(Huysmans, 2014: 3)–now calls for much fuller attention than it …

The Global South is a postcolonial imagined community that bears the potential to imagine
powerful south-south solidarity between the struggles for decoloniality of diverse …

There are several aspects of the LL of Covid-19 that deserve more discussion in the future,
for example, the linguistic and social inequality reflected in and mediated by pandemic …

Orienting to theoretical descriptions of 'affective-discursive practices'(Wetherell, 2012) and
linguistic/semiotic landscapes as 'affective regimes', this paper accounts for (some of) the …

Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book
illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the …

Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a
distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we …

This paper considers saying “enough” to English—that is, articulating a refusal of English in
a way that highlights reflecting on the past as a basis for prefiguring an alternative future—as …