Autoethnographic Explorations of Lived Raciolinguistic Experiences Among Multilingual Scholars

Looking Inward to Move Forward

Edited by Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Bridget Goodman

Publication date:

Q2 2025

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781800417304

While substantial research has looked backward at the colonial history of language and forward to the potential of decolonizing English for linguistic justice, there is a lack of investigation looking inward at the lived raciolinguistic experiences of multilingual scholars. This edited collection opens a healing space for storytelling and deepens readers' understanding of raciolinguistics in practice through autoethnography. The book brings together language education researchers and scholars, with each author representing and in contact with multiple cultural, linguistic and ethnic backgrounds. Together they create a community of practice to bring scholars with diverse backgrounds together for inward reflections on their lived raciolinguistic experiences. Through this journey, the book empowers both the chapter contributors and readers and allies who may see themselves in the stories, to reflect, learn and change their practices, and provides valuable insights into raciolinguistics and autoethnography as a research method.

I appreciate the opportunity this book provided to actively listen to the lived and often traumatic raciolinguistic experiences of multilingual international scholars who courageously share their powerful stories through authoethnographic methodologies. Their stories and scholarship remind us that we have much work to do in our teaching, research, publishing, and everyday interactions to disrupt raciolinguistic ideologies.