LEADER 04669nam 22006615 450 001 9910978261403321 005 20251116153917.0 010 $a9783031748172 010 $a3031748174 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-74817-2 035 $a(CKB)37498387000041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31901180 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31901180 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-74817-2 035 $a(OCoLC)1499806456 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937498387000041 100 $a20250207d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAfrican Linguistics after #RhodesMustFall $eContextualising the Role of African Languages in Higher Education in Times of Global Change /$fby Hannah Gibson, Jacqueline Lück, Kristina Riedel, Savithry Namboodiripad 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (142 pages) 311 08$a9783031748165 311 08$a3031748166 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: African Linguistics after #RhodesMustFall -- Chapter 2: The survey, the respondents, and us -- Chapter 3: Student and staff experiences of African languages in higher education -- Chapter 4: Prominence and erasure of African languages in higher education -- Chapter 5: The role of African languages in transformation and decolonisation -- Chapter 6: Views on decoloniality and transformation discourses in African Linguistics -- Chapter 7: Conclusions, next steps and a call to action. 330 $aThis open access book explores the link between African languages, decolonisation and transformation. It has its origins in a survey of students and instructors at higher education institutions both inside and outside Africa, and takes as a starting point the 2015 student-led #RhodesMustFall movement which spread across universities in South Africa. Many of the questions being asked by #RhodesMustFall found parallels in ongoing discussions across in Europe and North America. This book presents findings from the survey, set against the broader backdrop of calls for decolonisation and transformation, drawing specifically on linguistics teaching, scholarship and research. The findings provide new insights into how African languages and linguistics are framed and engaged with, amidst decolonial struggles in higher education. This book will be relevant to readers with an interest in African languages, social justice, higher education, and decolonisation. Hannah Gibson is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK. Her work is primarily concerned with linguistic variation with a focus on African languages, language contact, multilingualism and the link between linguistics and social justice. Jacqueline Lück is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Humanities at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. Her research interests include language, knowledge and academic literacies; identity, discourse and ideology; decolonisation of linguistics and the curriculum. Kristina Riedel is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her research is focused on the syntax of the Bantu languages, and also the decolonisation and transformation of linguistics in South Africa. Savithry Namboodiripad is an Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA. Her research concerns contact-induced change and syntactic typology, and how language ideologies and use in multilingual and recently colonised contexts contribute to language change. 606 $aAfrican languages 606 $aSocial justice 606 $aImperialism 606 $aEducation, Higher 606 $aAfrican Languages 606 $aSocial Justice 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism 606 $aHigher Education 615 0$aAfrican languages. 615 0$aSocial justice. 615 0$aImperialism. 615 0$aEducation, Higher. 615 14$aAfrican Languages. 615 24$aSocial Justice. 615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism. 615 24$aHigher Education. 676 $a496 700 $aGibson$b Hannah$01788556 701 $aLu?ck$b Jacqueline$01788557 701 $aRiedel$b Kristina$01788558 701 $aNamboodiripad$b Savithry$01788559 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910978261403321 996 $aAfrican Linguistics After #RhodesMustFall$94323589 997 $aUNINA