Making Sense of the Intercultural: Finding DeCentred Threads

Author:   Adrian Holliday ,  Sara Amadasi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781138482036


Pages:   120
Publication Date:   27 November 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Making Sense of the Intercultural: Finding DeCentred Threads


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In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and interculturality. Our purpose is to shake established views in what we consider to be an urgent quest for dealing with prejudice. We therefore seek to draw attention to the following: How Centre structures and large culture boundaries are sources of prejudice How deCentred intercultural threads address prejudice by dissolving these boundaries How, in everyday small culture formation on the go, the cultural and the intercultural are observable and become indistinguishable How agency, personal and grand narratives, discourses, and positioning become visible in unexpected ways How we researchers also bring competing narratives in making sense of the intercultural How third spaces are discordant and uncomfortable places in which all of us must struggle to achieve interculturality This book is therefore a journey of discovery with each chapter building on the previous ones. While throughout there are particular empirical events (interviews, reconstructed ethnographic accounts and research diary entries) with their own detailed analyses and insights, they connect back to discussion in previous chapters.

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Author:   Adrian Holliday ,  Sara Amadasi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9781138482036


ISBN 10:   113848203
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   27 November 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Distant lands and the everyday Kati in Exia Main events, storyline and concepts Matt and the woman on the train The ‘getting on with life’ grand narrative Getting to the deCentred: The Moor’s account What it takes to listen to the deCentred Chapter 2: DeCentred threads resist the expected The problem with ‘integration’ Working with children as expert agents of culture and identity The intertwined nature of identity construction A critical cosmopolitan, deCentred discourse of culture Searching for hidden spaces Chapter 3: Centred threads become blocks Choosing to find threads Dangerous threads: Kati and Eli Talking to Wissaal about clothes: threads of ambivalence Behind the scenes sense-making of threads or not threads Kati, Eli and Matt visit ‘the foreign’: blocks and threads at work Building interculturality Chapter 4: Who are we as researchers? Excavating our own researcher agendas In this together Chapter 5: Getting on with deCentred life Meeting undergraduate students Another unexpected deCentred thread Connecting back to other events Conclusions

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Dr Adrian Holliday is Professor of Applied Linguistics & Intercultural Education at Canterbury Christ Church University. Dr Sara Amadasi is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Modena & Reggio Emilia.

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