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Routledge
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Routledge
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Today, people in different situations and contexts face intercultural challenges. These are a result of increasing mobility. Sometimes such challenges are brought about by crisis situations and an international labor market. However, people also come in contact with each other through forms of new technology such as the Internet, and through literature and film. In these multicultural encounters,... Read more
Introduction; 1: If Culture is Practice … ? A Practice-Theoretical Perspective on Intercultural Communication and Mediation; 2: Transforming Versus Repressing the Self and the Other in Virtual Language Learning and Teaching; 3: Simon Harel’s Les passages obligés de l’écriture migrante and the Question of Migrant Literature as Intercultural Mediator in Quebec; 4: A Heart from Jenin: Transformation, Mediation, Vulnerability; 5: Moving on Boundary Spaces: Altering Embodied Representations of the Other and the Self; 6: Meeting the Heathens in Ostrobothnia: Moravian Mission Tales and Myths of West Indian Slavery; 7: The Other Time: Use of the Victorian Past in William Plomer’s Double Lives; 8: Iterative Mapping of Otherness: A Mapping Discussion of the Transforming Potential of the Other; 9: In the End—Am I a Chicana? Imagining the Communities of the Multi-Genre Anthologies This Bridge Called My Back and this bridge we call home in Dialogue with Susan M. Guerra; 10: Intercultural Competence and False Projections: A Perspective on the Critical Tradition of Intercultural Documentary Film
Biography
Peter Nynas
