This book represents a key text in Pluriversal Literacies. It traces the geopolitical history of literacies studies to foreground both the current dominance of print text as well as the urgency and potential of a pluriversal literacies approach. The book lays out a theoretical foundation for literacies as fundamental semiotic practices that enable humans to engage, interact with, and make meaning with the world. And finally, the book introduces and explores specific literacies (including print, faith, bodes, land, water, and materials) and positions them in relation to a broad pluriversal approach to literacies education.

Drawing together research that spans the global north and south, this book connects the disciplines of literacies studies with semiotics, philosophy, sustainability studies, and geopolitics. The book critiques the prevailing norm of print (“schooled”) literacy as insufficient for an equitable and sustainable world. But more importantly, it lays out an alternative vision and framework for literacies education that shifts what it means to be literate in the many places and practices of our world.