1st Edition
Un-writing Interculturality in Education and Research
This highly original and stimulating edited volume focuses on ways of un-writing the polysemous, controversial and highly political notion of interculturality in research and education.
The authors argue that no ‘critical’ perspective on interculturality can do without revising, exploring and creating ways of engaging with different and potentially new aspects and forms of inquiry of the notion in writing. They also claim that un-writing interculturality can serve an emancipatory function towards an epistemic re-appraisal of the mainstream(s) and the dominant(s). While critiquing problematic perspectives, as well as the ‘taken-for-granted’ and ‘things as usual’ within interculturality scholarship, writing otherwise about interculturality is epistemically significant and indicative of change in the ways the notion is used. Each chapter reflects on how to un-write, un-do and un-learn interculturality in research and aims to provide some answers to the following questions: What could un-writing interculturality mean? What are the pros and cons of un-writing in research on intercultural communication education? How does constant work on languaging around interculturality contribute to enriching the notion globally?
The book is aimed at students and scholars who wish to push the boundaries of scholarly engagement with interculturality, especially in relation to their modalities of writing, reasoning and critiquing.
Chapter 1 Lead-in
Fred Dervin and Hamza R’boul
Chapter 2 Unlearning, undoing and unwriting in Western philosophies of intercultural education: Unwriting their Eurocentric claims and ties
Dominic Busch
Chapter 3 Doing meshwork toward the intercultural: Reflections on teaching a course on multicultural Canada
Vander Tavares
Chapter 4 When interculturality becomes insurrectionality
Elatiana Razafimandimbimanana
Chapter 5 Using audio-visuality to un-do and un-write interculturality: World cinema and the filmic motif of Death
Andreas Jacobsson
Chapter 6 Performing the inappropriate/d cultural Other in the third space
Dave Yan, David Bright and Howard Prosser
Chapter 7 (Un-)learning with Utterslev Marsh in Copenhagen, Denmark: Propositions for co-inhabiting more-than-human ecologies
Linda Lapina
Chapter 8 Wriving interculturally
Fred Dervin
Chapter 9 Taku Skan Skan: The Delinking of an Academic through Ecotranslanguaging
Julie S’Esmé Byrd
Biography
Fred Dervin is a Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Professor Dervin specializes 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), 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.
Hamza R’boul is a research assistant professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavours in education, cultural politics of language teaching and postcoloniality.
