Full Description
This edited volume is grounded in the recognition that we are living in an age of disruption, evident on multiple fronts including rising global inequality, environmental degradation, war, the unchecked growth of generative AI, the mining of our attention by digital tech corporations and increasingly polarised political discourse.
Representing a diverse range of voices, disciplines and contexts, the contributors to this book respond to this current state by considering its effects on their working environment and practices and how their understanding of interculturality is transformed in relation to these global conditions. Through engaging with these contributors who actively research and critically interrogate interculturality as a core concept, this book makes a significant contribution to the field of intercultural communication, arguing that the future relevance and theoretical potential of interculturality is contingent on maintaining a critical approach to the concept while preserving an open perspective to social interaction which emphasises interdependence.
This book will be essential for academics, postgraduate researchers, and teachers working in intercultural studies and related fields.
Contents
Lists of figures, Introduction, 1. Disruption or emancipation? Research on the intercultural and its modes of interaction with the social (Dominic Busch), 2. Disrupting Integration: Towards a Relational Paradigm in Intercultural Language Education for Adult Migrants (Denise Paola Holguín Vaca), 3. Power and/in Intercultural Communication: A Critical Appraisal (Flavia Monceri), 4. The Political Implications of Interculturality as a Floating Signifier in Public Policy in Argentina (Samanta Guiñazú and Laura Kropff Causa), 5. From small cultures to the varicultural flow: situated deCentred social action (Adrian Holliday), 6. The Institutionalised Othering of International Students: Decentring and rethinking (Victoria Odeniyi), 7. Living with interculturality: Acquiescing and disrupting (Haynes Collins and Ramzi Merabet), 8. Languages, policies and interculturality in Danish Higher Education, 2019-24 (Kirsten Jæger and Hanne Tange), 9. The University with Open Doors: Creative Disruptions in the Challenges of Interculturality in Brazilian Higher Education (Alessandra Simões Paiva), 10. Disrupted lives, disrupted identities: War, displacement, and language choice in Ukraine (Mariia Ilchenko), 11. Open Conversation Among Contributors (Haynes Collins, Ramzi Merabet, Dominic Busch, Laura Kropff Causa, Samanta Guiñazú, Denise Paola Holguín Vaca, Adrian Holliday, Mariia Ilchenko, Kirsten Jæger, Flavia Monceri, Victoria Odeniyi, Alessandra Simões Paiva and Hanne Tange), Chapter 12: Implications: Closure, Disruption and Interculturality (Haynes Collins and Ramzi Merabet), Index.
