Introduction: Reframing the Struggle for New Decolonial Futures

This chapter introduces the cross-cutting themes and arguments advanced in the book. It highlights key questions and how they are addressed in the collection of chapters: How were languages, cultures, and the Euro-modernist colonial project co-constructed? How might we decolonise languages and cultures and rehabilitate them at the same time? The chapter also lays out the organisation of the volume, showing how theoretical contributions and those that showcase empirical studies and applications speak to one another to constitute a coherent story on decolonising language and knowledge, and how this could be done.