Worlding geography: From linguistic privilege to decolonial anywheres

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Title
Worlding geography: From linguistic privilege to decolonial anywheres
Journal
Progress in Human Geography
Author(s)
Müller Martin
ISSN
0309-1325
1477-0288
Publication state
Published
Issued date
20/01/2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
45
Number
6
Pages
1440-1466
Language
english
Abstract
Geography studies the world. Our knowledge of the world, however, comes mostly from Anglophone sources. This makes Geography in urgent need of worlding – of including multiple voices and languages from around the world. Introducing the notion of linguistic privilege, the article establishes language as an important dimension of epistemic struggle, alongside gender, race, class and others. Its analysis finds the greatest linguistic privilege in the most influential positions in knowledge production – editors of handbooks and journals and authors of progress reports. Three strategies of worlding should challenge this: making gatekeepers multilingual, promoting multiple Englishes and valorising ex-centric knowledge.
Keywords
Geography, Planning and Development
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