1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Interculturality in Communication and Education
This Handbook is the first comprehensive volume to focus entirely on the notion of interculturality, reflecting on what the addition of the adjective 'critical' means for research and teaching in interdisciplinary studies.
The book consists of 35 chapters, including a comprehensive introduction and conclusion. It aims to present current debates on critical interculturality and to help readers make sense of what the label implies and entails in global and local contexts, especially (where possible) beyond dominant scholarship and pedagogical practices. The chapters interrogate the use of terms in different languages to discuss interculturality, drawing on recent literature from as many different parts of the world as possible. Some contributors also problematise their own autobiographical engagement with critical interculturality in their chapters.
The book will be of interest to Master's and PhD students in education, communication, and intercultural studies who wish to develop their knowledge of critical interculturality. Established researchers in these fields will also benefit from this invaluable and original source of essential reading.
1. Introduction
Fred Dervin
PART 1 – INTERROGATING AND PROBLEMATIZING CRITICAL AND INTERCULTURALITY
2. What constitutes a critical intercultural communication perspective? The significance of negation and specification
Rona Tamiko Halualani
3. Critical interculturality in a global perspective: A matter of geopolitical position, sociocultural nexus, and existential relevance
Karen Risager
4. Epistemological dilemmas in teaching critical interculturality: Ideologies and the ‘pseudo-critical’
Hamza R’boul
5. What’s in a concept? An exploration of ‘interculturality’
Deborah Charlotte Darling and Haiqin Liu
PART II – CRITICAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON INTERCULTURALITY
6. Critical pedagogy, deconstruction and the promises of interculturality
Maria Dasli
7. Echoes of critical interculturality: World cinema, polycentric perspectives, and polyvocality
Andreas Jacobsson
8. Resisting neoliberal influences through a dynamic approach to intercultural education
Oona Piipponen
9. Critical interculturality in tourism communication
Shuang Gao and Bal Krishna Sharma
10. Stay critiCUL: The imperative for educators to take a critical and reflexive approach to culture, diversity, and interculturality in their classroom practice
Jasmin Peskoller amd Eva Maria Hirzinger-Unterrainer
PART III – LANGUAGE AND CRITICAL INTERCULTURALITY – CRITICAL INTERCULTURALITY IN LANGUAGE
11. Language, meaning potential and bicritical interculturality in healthcare
Fiona O’Neill, Kerrilee Lockyer, and Jonathan Crichton
12. Multilingual practices in higher education for enhancing critical interculturality
Lotta Kokkonen and Teija Natri, University of Jyväskylä
13. The role of culture and interculturality in language teacher education: Insights into the educational context of Austria
Eva Maria Hirzinger-Unterrainer and Jasmin Peskoller, University of Innsbruck
14. Critical interculturality in an English textbook for higher education in China
Wang Qiang
15. Critical interculturality in English language education: Gaslighting, myths and learning from literature
Janice Bland
16. Fostering critical interculturality in foreign language education
Elinor Parks
17. Intercultural learning as a process in Chinese language education
Haiqin Liu and Deborah Charlotte Darling
PART IV – RESEARCHING INTERCULTURALITY CRITICALLY
18. Post qualitative inquiry into critical interculturality
Dominic Busch
19. Getting critical about critical interculturality: Researching international schools critically and empathetically
Adam Poole
20. Critical reflexivity through autoethnography: Interculturality and in-between experiences
Ahmet Atay
21. Walking our landscape as interculturality. A visual essay in resonances
Danièle Moore
22. Queering as an inspiration for (further) critical interculturality
Fred Dervin
PART V – TEACHING CRITICAL INTERCULTURALITY
23. Challenging the dichotomy of (anti)-essentialism: A multi-perspective critical approach to teaching interculturality
Alexander Frame and David Bousquet
24. When interculturality and business meet: A critical turn in Portuguese higher education
Clara Sarmento
25. (Re)Thinking critical intercultural communication pedagogy: Teaching and learning in response to shifting cultural contexts
Yea-Wen Chen and Brandi Lawless
26. Critical interculturality in the Australian school classroom
Robyn Moloney
27. Cultivating criticality: Notions of “critical” applied to teaching and learning about intercultural communication in a Higher Education setting
Lotta Kokkonen, Alexander Frame and Mitra Raappana
28. Teaching critical interculturality to social work students
Phyllis Ngai
29. Re-envisioning “the core intercultural communication course” as a critical intercultural communication course
Rona Tamiko Halualani
PART VI – CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES BEYOND THE ‘WEST’?
30. Whiteness in scholarship on interculturality from the global north/s
Mélodine Sommier
31. Reframing discourses of healthcare “helping” in volunteer tourism: Critical interculturality, liberation theology, and Latin America
Phiona Stanley
32. Education for sustainable interculturality
Heidi Layne
33. Post-secularity: Religion and spirituality for critical intercultural education
Chantal Crozet
34. Perceptions and constructions of ideologies of interculturality
Huiyu Tan, SUFE and Fred Dervin
35. Provisional denouement
Fred Dervin
Biography
Fred Dervin is a Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Professor Dervin specialises in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism, and student and academic mobility. He is widely published in different languages (over 200 articles and 80 books). Recent books published with Routledge include Communicating around Interculturality in Research and Education (2023), The Paradoxes of Interculturality: A Toolbox of Out-of-the-box Ideas for Intercultural Communication Education (2022), and Flexing Interculturality (with Hamza R’boul; 2023). Over a career of 25 years, Dervin has made substantial contributions to scholarship on interculturality in both communication and education.
