ABSTRACT
This collection lends a critical decolonising lens to intercultural communication research, bringing together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises.
The book draws on case studies from a range of educational contexts in the Global South which engage in creative arts methodologies to foreground decolonising approaches to intercultural communication in which researchers question their own power in the research process. The volume offers intercultural resources that can be used by researchers and community support groups to foster active intercultural communication, dialogue, participation, and responsibility among young people in these settings and those who may be marginalised from them. The collection also highlights the reflexive accounts of researchers working in a transnational, interdisciplinary, and multilingual research network and the subsequent opportunities and challenges of working in such networks.
Advocating for intercultural understanding among young people in higher education and a greater focus on social justice in intercultural communication research, this book will be of interest to students and researchers in applied linguistics, language education, intercultural education, and multilingualism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|115 pages
The case studies
chapter 3|16 pages
Connecting Palestine and Brazil
chapter 4|23 pages
Hearing the intercultural voices
chapter 5|30 pages
To be with the Other on campus
chapter 6|21 pages
Participation, understanding, and dialogue
part II|67 pages
Responses from the Global South
chapter 7|19 pages
Intercultural responsibility in conditions of conflict and crises
chapter 8|16 pages
“I'm afraid there are no easy fixes”
part III|50 pages
Building multilingual intercultural research networks in higher education