Colonial Temporality and Writing Education
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- ISBN 9781800413863
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Multilingual Matters
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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).
