Unsung Mavericks in Intercultural Communication, Education and Research

Chapter 1 Introducing the ‘unsung’ in ICER

Fred Dervin and Stella Anne Achieng

Part I: Ethnographies of uncelebrated mavericks

Chapter 2 ‘Where do you come from?’: Reflexive narratives of (un)celebrated trajectories and (b)othered identities

Elatiana Razafimandimbimanana, Bridget Goodman and Siema Ramdas

Chapter 3 Marginalised voices, marginalised knowledge: A critical autoethnographic reflection on my PhD journey in Intercultural Communication Education in Finland

Suhao Peng

Chapter 4 Daring to be bold: Writing life events as acts of transgression

Dave Yan

Chapter 5 Confronting marginalisation, seeking belonging: Transformative adaptability in an Algerian student’s intercultural journey

Nesma Bara

Chapter 6 Quiet resilience in market-driven academia: Voicing the ‘otherwise’ through fictionalised autoethnographic fragments

Akihiro Saito

Part II: Encounters with mavericks

Chapter 7 Bridging the gaps: The intersection of Deaf studies and intercultural education

Rachel Coppage and Elba Ramirez

Chapter 8 Privilege and marginalisation in language education: A duoethnography of Colombian educators in diverse contexts

Denise Holguín and Beatriz Peña Dix

Chapter 9 Teachers and students co-constructing intercultural understanding: Unheard voices’ multilingual stances in Australian business education

Haibo Shen, Siwen Song, Mengfan Li, Mingming Cheng and Tianpei Luo

Chapter 10 Deconstructing research in intercultural communication education: The researcher as an unlearning learner

Beatriz Peña Dix, Fabián Benavides Jiménez and Lorena Caviedes Cadena

Chapter 11 Bridging worlds through decolonial intercultural dialogue: Understanding Indigenous ancestral medicine in Colombia

Manuel Antonio Ussa Tunubalá and José Aldemar Álvarez Valencia

Chapter 12 The un/seen pioneer of Ambiguity Tolerance: A palimpsestic reception of Else Frenkel-Brunswik’s scholarly work

Claudia Heinrich

Chapter 13 The voice of the maverick is the intercultural voice: Rethinking interculturality through the philosophy of Reiner Schürmann

Eric Navé

Chapter 14 Concluding reflections–Between two worlds: At home (maybe) in neither…

Ning Chen

Biography

For over 25 years, Fred Dervin has contributed to redefining intercultural communication, education, and research. The University of Helsinki scholar challenges conventional paradigms with interdisciplinary insight, inspiring scholars, practitioners, and students to critically rethink and creatively reshape interculturality for our complex worlds. A defining characteristic of his 300+ publications is his commitment to the continuous re-examination of his own work.

Stella Anne Achieng holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Lorraine (France). She is an associate member of the Centre de Recherche sur les Médiations (CREM) at the same institution. Her work focuses on interculturality and intercultural competence in higher education and foreign language education.