Intercultural acrobatics exploring other ways of speaking about interculturality in education and research Fred Dervin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dervin, Fred, 1974- author.

Series:

Occasional papers. Education series

Education Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication--Study and teaching.

Intercultural communication.

Intercultural communication--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Singapore Springer [2026]

Summary:

This book argues that the field of Intercultural Communication Education and Research (ICER) has often been compromised by uncritical, market-driven approaches that create an illusion of progress. The author demonstrates how hollow buzzwords, superficial models and a focus on harmony often mask power imbalances and prevent meaningful change. To counter this, the book proposes a practice of intercultural acrobatics - the creation and strategic use of new, provisional terms. These concepts act as deliberate disruptions to challenge stagnant thinking, expose contradictions and reclaim interculturality as a site for critical, justice-oriented work. The book provides a practical toolkit for scholars, educators and students to move beyond comfortable consensus and engage more honestly with the complex realities of difference

Contents:

Writing as a deliberate state of resistance

Interality as a polysemic ideological and economic political construct and strategy

Embracing the contradictions of interality

Reclaiming tension for interality

Exposing the façade uncritical adoption of interality in research and education

Language as a battleground

Beyond answers and bridges

New gambits

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 17, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Dervin, Fred Intercultural Acrobatics

ISBN:

9789819573264

9819573262

OCLC:

1596695794

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