Carolyn McKinney is Professor in Language Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Pinky Makoe is Associate Professor in the Department of Education and Curriculum Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Virginia Zavala is Professor of Sociolinguistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima.

Introduction: Critical and decolonial approaches to multilingualism in global perspective

PART 1: Coloniality and Multilingualism

1.Lessons for decolonization from pre-colonial translingualism

2. Looking at multilingualisms from the Global South

3. (De)colonial multilingual/multimodal practices: Resisting and re-existing voices from Latin America

4. Raciolinguistic ideologies

5. Unequal Englishes in the Global South

PART 2: Concepts and Theories in Multilingualism

6. Materialities and ontologies: Thinking multilingualism through language materiality, post-humanism and new materiality

7. Translanguaging and trans-semiotising

8. Multilingualism and Multimodality

9. Indigenous language and education rights

10. Linguistic Citizenship

11. Multilingual Literacies

12. Digital Multilingualism

PART 3: Multilingualism and Education

13. Indigenous education and multilingualism: Global perspectives and local experiences

14. Multilingualism and language/s of learning and teaching in post-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa

15. Decolonizing multilingual pedagogies

16. Opening (up) spaces for multilingual learning and teaching practices in South African Higher Education: A decolonial perspective

17. Translanguaging pedagogies in the Global South: Review of classroom practices and interventions

18. Language education and the COVID-19 global pandemic

PART 4: Multilingualism in Social and Cultural Change

19.Multilingualism, the new economy and the neo-liberal governance of speakers

20. Sociolinguistics and (in)securitisation as another mode of governance

21. The multilingualism of global academic research and communication practices

22. Multilingualism and hip hop

23. Media as sites of multilingualism

PART 5 : Multilingualism in Public Life

24. Multilingualism in the workplace - issues of space and social order

25. Multilingualism during disasters and emergencies

26. Multilingualism in asylum and migration procedures

27. Multilingualism and translation

28. Multilingualism and linguistic landscapes

29. Afterword

Index