Colonial Temporality and Writing Education

Xiaoye You, Othman Z. Barnawi

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English

Multilingual Matters
14 October 2025

Language teaching theory & methods; ELT: teaching theory & methods; ELT: writing skills; Colonialism & imperialism

Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education

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.

By: Xiaoye You, Othman Z. Barnawi
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781800413863
ISBN 10: 1800413866
Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 14 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).

Reviews for Colonial Temporality and Writing Education

This insightful book examines how colonial and neoliberal temporal regimes – with a particular focus on China and Saudi Arabia – shape English writing education under the influence of the Global North. By revealing how time itself operates as a tool of power, the book is a valuable contribution to postcolonial theory, education and the sociology of time. A recommended read for students, educators, and scholars alike. * Filip Vostal, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia *