Xiaoye You coauthored a new book, Colonial Temporality and Writing Education.

The book has been released by Multilingual Matters, an important press in applied linguistics and writing studies.

Xiaoye’s description of the book:

In interrogating colonial legacies in the teaching of English writing, the fields of applied linguistics and writing studies have critiqued racism, monolingualism, and ableism but not as much as colonial temporality. Our book examines how a colonial matrix of power has been 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.