Intercultural Acrobatics
Exploring Other Ways of Speaking about Interculturality in Education and Research
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Beschreibung
This book argues that the field of Intercultural Communication Education and Research (ICER) has often been compromised by uncritical, market-driven approaches that create an illusion of progress. The author demonstrates how hollow buzzwords, superficial models and a focus on harmony often mask power imbalances and prevent meaningful change. To counter this, the book proposes a practice of intercultural acrobatics – the creation and strategic use of new, provisional terms. These concepts act as deliberate disruptions to challenge stagnant thinking, expose contradictions and reclaim interculturality as a site for critical, justice-oriented work. The book provides a practical toolkit for scholars, educators and students to move beyond comfortable consensus and engage more honestly with the complex realities of difference.
This book argues that the field of Intercultural Communication Education and Research (ICER) has often been compromised by uncritical, market-driven approaches that create an illusion of progress. The author demonstrates how hollow buzzwords, superficial models and a focus on harmony often mask power imbalances and prevent meaningful change. To counter this, the book proposes a practice of intercultural acrobatics – the creation and strategic use of new, provisional terms. These concepts act as deliberate disruptions to challenge stagnant thinking, expose contradictions and reclaim interculturality as a site for critical, justice-oriented work. The book provides a practical toolkit for scholars, educators and students to move beyond comfortable consensus and engage more honestly with the complex realities of difference.
Contributes to decolonizing interculturality or interculturalizing it as a scientific, ideological, and everyday notion Stimulates critical and reflexive discussions of interculturality as a central concept in education and communication Serves as a valuable tool to continue thinking “otherwise” about the notion of interculturality
Autor*in
Fred Dervin
Themen in »Intercultural Acrobatics«
Interculturality in education Questioning the accepted Developing critical thinking Being reflexive about the use of concepts Interculturality as a polysemic notion Beyond Western takes on interculturality Decolonising intercultural scholarship Archaeological work on intercultural thinking Moving forward with interculturality Ideological takes on interculturality