ABSTRACT

This volume focuses on advances in research methodology in an interdisciplinary field framed by discourses of identity and interculturality. It includes a range of qualitative studies: studies of interaction, narrative studies, conversation analysis, ethnographic studies, postcolonial studies and critical discourse studies, and emphasizes the role of discourse and power in all studies of identity and interculturality. The volume particularly focuses on critical reflexivity in every stage of research, including reflections on theoretical concepts (such as ‘identity’ and ‘interculturality’) and their relationship with methodology and analytical practice, reflections on researcher identity and subjectivity, reflections on local and global contexts of research, and reflections on language choice and linguacultural aspects of data generation, analysis and communication.

chapter |25 pages

Introduction

section |59 pages

Identity and Interculturality: Studying Narratives

chapter |19 pages

Identity: Brought About or Brought Along?

Narrative as a Privileged Site for Researching Intercultural Identities

section |62 pages

Identity and Interculturality: Studying Interaction and Discursive Contexts

chapter |20 pages

Ethnomethodological Methods for Identity and Culture

Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorisation

chapter |16 pages

Interculturality

Reconceptualising Cultural Memberships and Identities Through Translanguaging Practice

chapter |24 pages

Discursive Ethnography

A Microanalytical Perspective on Cultural Performance and Common Sense in Student Counseling Interviews

section |41 pages

Identity and Interculturality: Studying Practices and Discourses in Local and Global Contexts

chapter |18 pages

Interculturality in Ethnographic Practice

Noisy Silences

chapter |21 pages

Who Decides What to Develop and How?

Methodological Reflections on Postcolonial Contributions to Analysis of Development Fieldwork

section |47 pages

Identity and Interculturality: Revisiting Concepts and Analytical Foci

chapter |18 pages

On Legitimate and Illegitimate Blendings

Toward an Analytics of Hybridity

chapter |20 pages

Identity and Subjectivity

Different Timescales, Different Methodologies

chapter |7 pages

Concluding Remarks

Toward More Equitable Research on Identity and Interculturality?