The media imperialism thesis is the most widespread systemic account of cultural globalization. This is in spite of the fact that various ethnographic studies of culture consumption continue to produce evidence that shows that the predictions derived from this approach are not consistent with what is observed. In‐ stead of homogeneity of consumption, we find diversity of interpretat...

Translanguaging and plurilingual approaches in English Language Education (ELE) have been important for envisaging more equitable language education. However, the languages implemented translanguaging or classrooms predominantly reflect knowledge belief systems of dominant, nation-state, “official”, and/or colonial as opposed to those endangered Indigenous languages. This paper contends that pr...

Many people believe that language teaching is a neutral practice. However, this belief is not without its own opponents. To many scholars, teaching languages cannot be devoid of teaching cultural values of the target language, which tacitly aims at denigrating cultural values of the community of the learners who are learning it. The ultimate purpose of such cultural oppression, according to the...

How does one craft an explicitly left theory of anti-imperialism that would animate anti-imperialist praxis? World-systems analysis has a long history engagement with theories from Leninist perspective. For the founding fathers World-Systems Analysis—Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi, Samir Amin, and Andre Gunder Frank—anti-imperialism was early central concern. Each four founders world-sy...

Recent years have witnessed a small avalanche of critical historical work on British imperial culture across the social sciences and not least within geography. The inspiration behind the critical interest in empire, knowledge and power was undoubtedly Edward Said’s groundbreaking and provocative Orientalism. Waves of debate have permeated throughout the social sciences and humanities in respon...