Unsung Mavericks in Intercultural Communication, Education and Research
Stepping into the vibrant and uncharted margins of Intercultural Communication, Education and Research (ICER), this edited volume challenges the field’s established narratives by actively listening to the thinkers, educators, and practitioners whose transformative work has previously been overlooked.
Moving beyond clichés, this volume introduces the ‘unsung maverick’ not as a heroic figure but as a precarious rope-dancer performing vital and innovative work without a safety net. Through powerful, first-hand accounts, ranging from autoethnographies to poetic experiments, the contributors pull apart dominant paradigms and reveal how systemic biases and linguistic hierarchies have silenced crucial perspectives. Representing a platform for methodological rebellion and epistemic justice, this book showcases how interculturality is lived and reimagined from the ground up.
For anyone ready to move past the usual references and discover the fertile and creative potential at the edges of ICER, this edited volume urges us to listen, learn, and help shape the conversation about interculturality today.
Table des matières :
Chapter 1 Introducing the ‘unsung’ in ICER
Fred Dervin and Stella Anne Achieng
Part I: Ethnographies of uncelebrated mavericks
Chapter 2 ‘Where do you come from?’: Reflexive narratives of (un)celebrated trajectories and (b)othered identities
Elatiana Razafimandimbimanana, Bridget Goodman and Siema Ramdas
Chapter 3 Marginalised voices, marginalised knowledge: A critical autoethnographic reflection on my PhD journey in Intercultural Communication Education in Finland
Suhao Peng
Chapter 4 Daring to be bold: Writing life events as acts of transgression
Dave Yan
Chapter 5 Confronting marginalisation, seeking belonging: Transformative adaptability in an Algerian student’s intercultural journey
Nesma Bara
Chapter 6 Quiet resilience in market-driven academia: Voicing the ‘otherwise’ through fictionalised autoethnographic fragments
Akihiro Saito
Part II: Encounters with mavericks
Chapter 7 Bridging the gaps: The intersection of Deaf studies and intercultural education
Rachel Coppage and Elba Ramirez
Chapter 8 Privilege and marginalisation in language education: A duoethnography of Colombian educators in diverse contexts
Denise Holguín and Beatriz Peña Dix
Chapter 9 Teachers and students co-constructing intercultural understanding: Unheard voices’ multilingual stances in Australian business education
Haibo Shen, Siwen Song, Mengfan Li, Mingming Cheng and Tianpei Luo
Chapter 10 Deconstructing research in intercultural communication education: The researcher as an unlearning learner
Beatriz Peña Dix, Fabián Benavides Jiménez and Lorena Caviedes Cadena
Chapter 11 Bridging worlds through decolonial intercultural dialogue: Understanding Indigenous ancestral medicine in Colombia
Manuel Antonio Ussa Tunubalá and José Aldemar Álvarez Valencia
Chapter 12 The un/seen pioneer of Ambiguity Tolerance: A palimpsestic reception of Else Frenkel-Brunswik’s scholarly work
Claudia Heinrich
Chapter 13 The voice of the maverick is the intercultural voice: Rethinking interculturality through the philosophy of Reiner Schürmann
Eric Navé
Chapter 14 Concluding reflections–Between two worlds: At home (maybe) in neither…
Ning Chen
