Communicating Around Interculturality in Research and Education

This book does not instruct the reader how to communicate interculturally but supports them in reflecting on how they can (re-)negotiate and (re-)construct knowledge(s), ideologies and relations around the notion of interculturality. Anchored in the author’s original and thought-provoking perspectives on interculturality, this interdisciplinary and global-minded book explores how communicating around the notion cannot do away with ideologisms, issues of language and translation or the problematization of voice and silence in research and education. Written in an original and stimulating way, relying on different writing genres and styles to ’mimic’ the dynamism and flexibility of the very notion under review, the author urges us to (un-)voice, scrutinize, nurture and galvanize our ways of dealing with interculturality alone and together with others in academia. The very specific focus of the book, communicating around interculturality (instead of ’doing’ interculturality), represents a fresh and important move for observing, analyzing, speaking of and contributing to today’s complex and divided world.
The title is aimed at researchers, students and educators interested in examining and enriching their own takes on interculturality, from a more reflexive and interactive perspective.

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Prof. Dervin specialises in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism and international mobilities in education. Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the ’canon’ of intercultural communication education research has been one of Dervin’s idée fixes in his work over the past 20 years. He has widely published over 150 articles and 70 books in different languages on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration. His latest books published with Routledge also include: The Paradoxes of Interculturality and Intercultural Communication Education and Research (co-authored).