Colonial Temporality and Writing Education

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80041-386-3
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

This book examines how a colonial matrix of power is established through temporality in English writing education. It offers discourse analyses of higher educational policies that operate in China and Saudi Arabia and then triangulates this data with conversations with writing teachers from representative Chinese and Saudi universities. Drawing on all this data to understand both the structured power relations shaping educational policies and the attendant effects on the writing teachers that inhabit these spaces, the book develops a decolonial comparative method and adopts the concept of “temporal regime” as an analytic lens. It not only attends to the complex and multilayered ways that this regime controls, disciplines and shapes the social wellbeing and professional practices of individual writing teachers, but it also details the various ways that teachers understand, experience, resist, negotiate and appropriate the temporal orders.

Autoren/Hrsg.

You, Xiaoye

Barnawi, Othman Z.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Coloniality of English Writing Education

Chapter 2. Colonial and Neoliberal Temporalities in Higher Education

Chapter 3. Studying Temporality in Decoloniality and Globalization

Chapter 4. Time in Institutional Discourses of English Education

Chapter 5. Living the Educational Temporalities in Saudi Universities

Chapter 6. Wrestling with Temporal Regimes in Chinese Universities

Chapter 7. Teaching EFL Writing Otherwise: Cross-National Dialogues

Futureword: Delinking and Relinking in a Multipolar World

Appendix: Conversation Guidelines

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barnawi, Othman Z.
Othman Z. Barnawi is a Professor of Language, Society, and Education at the Royal Commission for Yanbu Colleges and Institutes, Saudi Arabia. He is the founding editor of the Global South Perspectives on TESOL book series and the author of TESOL and the Cult of Speed in the Age of Neoliberal Mobility (Routledge, 2020).

You, Xiaoye
Xiaoye You is Director of Graduate Studies in English, Director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation, and Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University. USA

Xiaoye You is Distinguished Professor of Foreign Languages at Gannan Normal University, China, and Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is an award-winning author and editor of eight books, including Writing in the Devil’s Tongue: A History of English Composition in China (2010) and Cosmopolitan English and Transliteracy (2016), both published by Southern Illinois University Press.

Othman Z. Barnawi is a Professor of Language and Education at the Royal Commission for Yanbu Colleges and Institutes, Saudi Arabia. He is the founding editor of the Routledge Global South Perspectives on TESOL book series and the author of TESOL and the Cult of Speed in the Age of Neoliberal Mobility (Routledge, 2020).