Taking Kerry Reed-Gilbert’s anthology The Strength of Us as Women: Black Women Speak (2000) as touchstone, the chapter undertakes a conversation between two Aboriginal women poets from Narungga and Wiradjuri standpoints about the transformative power of Indigenous poetry and its significant contribution to literature in the world. Offering an alternative to the essay, the authors discuss embodied engagements with the colonial archive and the theme of relationality that informs so much of Aboriginal writing. The chapter considers the potential of poetry to be both an affective tool and literary intervention. It outlines the methods of Gathering and Archival-Poetic praxis as ways to explore the counter-narrative potential of poetry. In considering the role of memory work and memory-making, the authors also discuss blood memory and body memory.

Chapter 2 provides a toolbox for managers for developing principles to address moral issues in business. The introductory case describes a student worker observing potentially illegal practices at work. It then examines how classic and contemporary ethical theory can undergird our intuitions and promote reasoned arguments. We start with utilitarianism, or looking to the maximum good for the maximum number, and identify challenges involved in making those calculations. Next, we look at duty-based theories that encourage good for its own sake, with the implication that a firm should benefit all stakeholders, and virtue theory which promotes notions of character and purpose. The chapter also asks whether corporate culture makes a firm sufficiently like a person to be regarded as a moral agent. The ethics of care, often championed by feminist philosophers, is presented as a contrast to classical theory and recent work in standpoint ethics is also discussed. The concluding case deals with EpiPens, potentially life-saving devices which, after a huge increase in price, led to windfall profits to the manufacturer, and invites analysis based on the theories presented.

The questions of ontologies of English that this book poses come at a time of epistemological change in the fields of socio- and applied linguistics. The very fact that we can talk of ‘socio- and applied linguistics’ points to the coming together of these fields in ways that have usefully unsettled both. The translingual turn (García and Li Wei, 2014), for example, derives not so much from theoretical debates about language as from contexts of language education. Likewise, the ontological questions being asked in this book come from an applied linguistic orientation: most of the authors here are engaged in various aspects of English language education. This is a welcome move since it brings a theoretical debate about ontologies of English into a field often hampered by its pragmatism, while investigating these questions in the light of practical educational concerns (how does this matter for ELT practices?). There has been an unfortunate tendency to leave such questions to so-called ‘theoretical’ linguists, a serious oversight both because linguists have often failed in their task by assuming that the object of linguistic investigation – language or languages – is a known and settled entity (even if the epistemological questions of how it can be analysed have spawned a wide range of theoretical camps), and because applied linguists have failed as a result to ask the all-important questions that derive from a field of practice (Kramsch, 2015): what is it we’re actually dealing with?