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'The deep-rooted coloniality in articulating time, space and language through the imperial fetters of monolingual domination and linear temporalities goes unchallenged within many academic disciplines. What we know of language, how language registers and alters our perception of place and time, and how spaces of connection and kinship influence temporalities have enormous consequences for the epistemic and political lives of First Nations within a settler colony. Everywhen is an edited collection containing rich and illuminating reflections on Indigenous temporalities and the seamless yet intricate continuities and entanglements between language, time and space. The collection is an important body of scholarship, filling the vacuum previously felt in understanding Indigenous temporalities and their complex relationship with diverse Indigenous languages. Further, it provides an unmistakable glimpse of how time and language can be conduits for critiquing settler coloniality and exploring alternative world-making practices. While grounded in the particularities of the Australian settler-colonial past and its present, Everywhen performs many tasks simultaneously: it functions as a text that illuminates the broad disciplinary interests and insights into the multifarious ways language can be spoken, perceived and performed, but more importantly, the collection also centres Indigenous scholars, who provide us with an exquisitely detailed appreciation of what time and language mean in the backdrop of ongoing settler colonialism.'  (Introduction)