1st Edition

Un-writing Interculturality in Education and Research

Edited By Fred Dervin, Hamza R'boul Copyright 2025
246 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This highly original and stimulating edited volume focuses on ways of un‑writing the polysemous, controversial and highly political notion of interculturality in research and education. The authors argue that no ‘critical’ perspective on interculturality can do without revising, exploring and creating ways of engaging with different and potentially new aspects and forms of inquiry of the notion... Read more

Chapter 1 Lead-in

Fred Dervin and Hamza R’boul

Chapter 2 Unlearning, undoing and unwriting in Western philosophies of intercultural education: Unwriting their Eurocentric claims and ties

Dominic Busch

Chapter 3 Doing meshwork toward the intercultural: Reflections on teaching a course on multicultural Canada

Vander Tavares

Chapter 4 When interculturality becomes insurrectionality

Elatiana Razafimandimbimanana

Chapter 5 Using audio-visuality to un-do and un-write interculturality: World cinema and the filmic motif of Death

Andreas Jacobsson

Chapter 6 Performing the inappropriate/d cultural Other in the third space

Dave Yan, David Bright and Howard Prosser

Chapter 7 (Un-)learning with Utterslev Marsh in Copenhagen, Denmark: Propositions for co-inhabiting more-than-human ecologies

Linda Lapina

Chapter 8 Wriving interculturally

Fred Dervin

Chapter 9 Taku Skan Skan: The Delinking of an Academic through Ecotranslanguaging

Julie S’Esmé Byrd

Biography

Fred Dervin is a renowned scholar in the field of intercultural communication education and research, serving as a Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Over his illustrious career, Dervin has contributed significantly to analyse, interrogate and disrupt discourses of interculturality with over 200 articles and 80 books. Recent books published with Routledge include Communicating around Interculturality in Research and Education (2023), The Paradoxes of Interculturality: A Toolbox of Out‑of‑the‑Box Ideas for Intercultural Communication Education (2022), and Flexing Interculturality (with Hamza R’boul; 2023). Dervin is included in the Stanford Elsevier List of the world’s best scientists (Top 2%).

Hamza R’boul is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavours in education and cultural politics of language teaching and postcoloniality.