ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book analyses the definitions of intercultural knowledge given by European Union (EU) policy discourse, academic textbooks on interculturality and students who have completed a university course on the subject. It identifies a tendency to think of interculturality as an abstract meeting ground where universal values are reconciled with cultural specificities. Drawing on different empirical material, the book attempts to scrutinise the epistemological foundation of the notion of interculturality, that is, to draw attention to its geopolitics and bodies politic of knowledge. The book focuses on the points of close correspondence between the chapters on interculturality before moving on to discuss the core issues and attributes associated with interculturality in relation to interculturalidad. Finally, it concludes with a discussion of the ways in which the paradigms of interculturality and interculturalidad point to the need for an inter-epistemic dialogue.
