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 Masters 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, University of Helsinki, Finland
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, San Jose State University, USA
3. Critical interculturality in a global perspective: A matter of geopolitical position, sociocultural nexus, and existential relevance
Karen Risager, Roskilde University, Denmark
4. Epistemological Dilemmas in Teaching Critical Interculturality: Ideologies and the ‘pseudo-critical’
Hamza R’boul, The Education University of Hong Kong, China
5. What’s in a concept? An exploration of ‘interculturality’
Deborah Charlotte Darling, University of Dundee, UK, and Haiqin Liu, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
PART 2 – CRITICAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON INTERCULTURALITY
6. Critical pedagogy, deconstruction and the promises of interculturality
Maria Dasli, University of Edinburgh, UK
7. Echoes of critical interculturality: World cinema, polycentric perspectives, and polyvocality
Andreas Jacobsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
8. Resisting neoliberal influences through a dynamic approach to intercultural education
Oona Piipponen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
9. Critical interculturality in tourism communication
Shuang Gao, University of Liverpool, UK, and Bal Krishna Sharma, University of Idaho, USA
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 & Eva Maria Hirzinger-Unterrainer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
PART 3 – LANGUAGE AND CRITICAL INTERCULTURALITY – CRITICAL INTERCULTURALITY IN LANGUAGE
11. Language, meaning potential and bicritical interculturality in healthcare
Fiona O’Neill, University of South Australia, Kerrilee Lockyer, University of South Australia, and Jonathan Crichton, University of South Australia
12. Multilingual practices in higher education for enhancing critical interculturality
Lotta Kokkonen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Teija Natri, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
13. The role of culture and interculturality in language teacher education: Insights into the educational context of Austria
Eva Maria Hirzinger-Unterrainer & Jasmin Peskoller, University of Innsbruck, Austria
14. Critical Interculturality in an English Textbook for Higher Education in China
Wang Qiang, Yangzhou University, China
15. Critical interculturality in English language education – gaslighting, myths, and learning from literature
Janice Bland, Nord University, Norway
16. Fostering Critical Interculturality in Foreign Language Education
Elinor Parks, Durham University, UK
17. Intercultural learning as a process in Chinese language education
Haiqin Liu, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and Deborah Charlotte Darling, University of Dundee, UK
PART 4 – RESEARCHING INTERCULTURALITY CRITICALLY
18. Post qualitative inquiry into critical interculturality
Dominic Busch, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
19. Getting critical about critical interculturality: Researching international schools critically and empathetically
Adam Poole, The Education University of Hong Kong
20. Critical Reflexivity through Autoethnography: Interculturality and In-between Experiences
Ahmet Atay, College of Wooster, USA
21. Walking our landscape as Interculturality. A visual essay in resonances
Danièle Moore, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada & DILTEC, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
22. Queering as an inspiration for (further) critical interculturality
Fred Dervin, University of Helsinki, Finland
PART 5 – TEACHING CRITICAL INTERCULTURALITY
23. Challenging the dichotomy of (anti-)essentialism – a multi-perspective critical approach to teaching interculturality
Alexander Frame, University of Burgundy, France, and David Bousquet, University of Burgundy, France
24. When Interculturality and Business Meet: A critical turn in Portuguese higher education
Clara Sarmento, Polytechnic University of Porto, Portugal
25. (Re)Thinking Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning in Response to Shifting Cultural Contexts
Yea-Wen Chen, San Diego State University, USA, and Brandi Lawless, University of San Francisco, USA
26. Critical interculturality in the Australian school classroom
Robyn Moloney, Macquarie University, Australia
27. Cultivating criticality: Notions of “critical” applied to teaching and learning about intercultural communication in a Higher Education setting
Lotta Kokkonen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Alexander Frame, University of Burgundy, France, and Mitra Raappana, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
28. Teaching Critical Interculturality to Social Work Students
Phyllis Ngai, University of Montana, USA
29. Re-Envisioning “The Core Intercultural Communication Course” as a Critical Intercultural Communication Course
Rona Tamiko Halualani, San Jose State University, USA
PART 6 – CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES BEYOND THE ‘WEST’?
30. Whiteness in scholarship on interculturality from the Global North/s
Mélodine Sommier, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
31. Reframing discourses of healthcare “helping” in volunteer tourism: Critical interculturality, liberation theology, and Latin America
Phiona Stanley, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
32. Education for sustainable interculturality
Heidi Layne, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
33. Post-Secularity: Religion and Spirituality for Critical Intercultural Education
Chantal Crozet, RMIT University, Australia
34. Perceptions and Constructions of Ideologies of Interculturality
Huiyu Tan, SUFE, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Fred Dervin, University of Helsinki, Finland
35. Provisional Denouement
Fred Dervin, University of Helsinki, Finland
Biography
Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Prof. Dervin specializes in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism, and student and academic mobility. He has widely published in different languages (over 200 articles and 80 books). His latest book with Routledge includes Communicating around Interculturality in Research and Education (2023). Over a career of 25 years, Dervin has managed to make substantial contributions to scholarship on interculturality in both communication and education around the world.
