This book provides answers to the following questions: How could visual art support us in reflecting about interculturality critically? When we look at, engage with and experience art, what is it that we can learn, unlearn and relearn about interculturality? The book adds to the multifaceted and multidisciplinary field of intercultural communication education by urging those working on the notion of interculturality (researchers, scholars and students) to give art a place in exploring its complexities. No knowledge background about art (theory) is needed to work through the chapters. The book helps us reflect on ourselves and on our engagement with the world and with others, and learn to ask questions about these elements. The authors draw on anthropology, linguistics, philosophy and sociology to enrich their discussions of critical interculturality.
By:
Fred Dervin, Xiaowen Tian Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Country of Publication: Switzerland Edition: 1st ed. 2023 Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
Weight: 296g ISBN:9783031407796 ISBN 10: 3031407792 Pages: 102 Publication Date:20 September 2023 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1 – The power of art? (Fred Dervin).- Chapter 2 – Reflecting on identity metamorphoses.- Chapter 3 – (Re-)encountering.- Chapter 4 – Rethinking how we meet interculturally.- Chapter 5 – “Shut your eyes and see” (Joyce) (Fred Dervin).
Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland.Xiaowen Tian is a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a lecturer at the Art Academy of Minzu University, China.