Insecurities in Language Policy and Planning

This volume is a veritable tour de force. It brings out the complexities and pitfalls of Language Policy and Planning, starting with the pervasive slipperiness of key concepts found lacking in operational definition. The contributors highlight the significance of bringing into the equation the often-sidelined voices from the Global South. * Kanavillil Rajagopalan, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil *
This book practices decolonization as active, historical, situated praxis. With sharp insight and critical self-awareness, it challenges language policy and planning to reckon with their colonial inheritances, offering a transformative lens rooted in what decolonization does, rather than what it merely means. As such, it is mandatory reading for critical eyes in search of non-extractivist LPP built around notions of embodied knowledge and epistemologies of the Souths. * Clarissa Menezes Jordão *
This volume, a fascinating decolonial project, brings together chapters designed to draw readers (in)to dialogue(s) with prominent academics on language planning and policy (LPP). While highlighting insecurities, violence and marginalisations in the ideologies and practices of the inherited Euro-American LPP, it provides novel perspectives and directions for decolonial LPP and research in the Global Souths. * Felix Banda, University of the Western Cape, South Africa *