Making Sense of the Intercultural: Finding DeCentred Threads

This book explores the third space, narratives, positioning, and interculturality, challenging established views and highlighting the role of deCentred intercultural threads in addressing prejudice. It emphasizes the visibility of agency, personal and grand narratives, discourses, and positioning in everyday small culture formation, and the discordant and uncomfortable nature of third spaces in achieving interculturality.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 132 pages
Publication date: 13 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

In this captivating book, we embark on a groundbreaking exploration of the third space, narratives, positioning, and interculturality, seeking to challenge and transform established perspectives in our urgent quest to combat prejudice. Our objective is to shed light on the profound influence of Centre structures and vast cultural boundaries on prejudice, while also highlighting the transformative power of deCentred intercultural threads in dissolving these barriers. We delve into the observable merging of cultural and intercultural elements in everyday small-culture formation on the go, rendering them inseparable. We uncover the unexpected visibility of agency, personal and grand narratives, discourses, and positioning, which shape our understanding of interculturality. Furthermore, we acknowledge the complexities inherent in researchers' navigation of competing narratives as they strive to make sense of the intercultural. We recognize that third spaces, while often discordant and uncomfortable, serve as vital arenas for our collective struggle toward achieving interculturality.

This book unfolds as a captivating journey of discovery, with each chapter building upon the preceding ones. While we present specific empirical events (interviews, reconstructed ethnographic accounts, and research diary entries) accompanied by detailed analyses and insights, they remain interconnected with the discussions in earlier chapters. Throughout, we invite readers to engage in a thought-provoking exploration of the third space, narratives, positioning, and interculturality, as we strive to foster understanding, empathy, and positive change in our world.

Weight: 240g
Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032337661