The Paradoxes of Interculturality

Offering a unique reading experience, this book examines the epistemologies of interculturality and explores potential routes to review and revisit the notion anew.

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He specialises in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism and international mobilities in education and has widely published in different languages on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration. Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the 'canon' of intercultural communication education research has been one of Dervin's idée fixes in his works over the past 20 years. His recent publications with Routledge include the coedited volumes Teaching Interculturality 'Otherwise', Academic Experiences of International Students in Chinese Higher Education and the coauthored title Revitalizing Interculturality in Education: Chinese Minzu as a Companion, etc.

1. Introduction Part I: Becoming aware of the paradoxes of interculturality 2. The doxa of interculturality 3. Stances towards alternative knowledge 4. The Achilles' heels of interculturality Part II: Dealing with paradoxes of interculturality 5. Towards a diversity of thoughts 6. Criticality (of criticality) 7. Unthink and rethink 8. Conclusion