ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes to question the use of the “intercultural” in research in our new era, which is often referred to as being “postmodern” or “hypermodern” (Bauman 2004; Dervin 2011). One central aspect of this era is a shift in the way human interaction is conceptualized, especially in relation to the concept of identity in its liquid and dynamic understanding (Bauman 2004). The approach in this chapter thus takes seriously a renewed understanding of interculturality, which represents a reaction against an “analytic stereotyping” that Sarangi (1994), among others, has criticized in research on the “intercultural” (cf. also Kumaravadivelu 2007; Dervin 2011), which puts forward solid and static identities.
