Flexing Interculturality: Further Critiques, Hesitations, and Intuitions

This book continues the two scholars' efforts to open up more spaces for alternative perspectives, analyses, and praxis in interculturality. It uses fragments as an alternative way of doing research and writing scholarship, drawing on human experiences to make points that destabilize themselves and readers to consider other paths and perspectives. The chapters include questions with (temporary) answers to induce readers to think for themselves and move beyond what the book has to offer. It is a great read for scholars and students in interculturality, education, and sociology.

Format: Hardback
Length: 174 pages
Publication date: 13 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book is a continuation of the two scholars' efforts to create more spaces for alternative perspectives, analyses, and practices in interculturality. The main text includes fragments that are relevant to a wide range of topics, including education, politics, personal experiences, social realities, hierarchies, self-critique, language, and locus of enunciation. The book takes a step forward by using fragments as an alternative way of conducting research and writing scholarship. The premise here is that fragments are human and reflect our fleeting, inconsistent, and unsystematic production of knowledge, which today's scholarship has presented as linear, structured, and aligned. The authors draw on fragments to make their points as forcefully as possible by constructing sentences that destabilize themselves and readers to consider other paths and perspectives. That is, writing otherwise may propel thinking otherwise, since the very bases upon which we push our insights to mold through and by are shaken and ultimately transcended. The chapters include questions with (temporary) answers as an attempt to induce readers to think for themselves and to move beyond what this book has to offer.

This book will be a great read for scholars and students in the fields of interculturality, education, and sociology. The authors hope that this book will be seen as a genuine example of de-linking from mainstream writing and thinking conventions about interculturality in communication and education without compromising epistemic depth and nuance.

Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032601052