Critical and Reflective Intercultural Communication Education: Practicing Interculturality Through Visual Art

✍ Scribed by Fred Dervin, Xiaowen Tian

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 110
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
About the Book
Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: The Power of Art?
[Thinking Fit]
Operate Some Distancing
Liberating Ourselves in Front of Interculturality
This Book Is Not an ‘Art Book’
Working with the Book
[Thinking Further]
References
Chapter 2: Reflecting on Identity Metamorphoses
[Thinking Fit]
From Sameness to Metamorphoses
Making Sense of Identity with Interculturality
Reflecting on Identity Metamorphoses Through and with Art
[Thinking Further]
Suggested Reading
References
Chapter 3: (Re-)encountering
[Thinking Fit]
Encountering Is Meeting Again
The Idea of Encounters Within Interculturality
Face, Mask, Mirror and Language
Reflecting on Mis- and Re-encountering Through Art
[Thinking Further]
Suggested Reading
References
Chapter 4: Rethinking How We Meet Interculturally
[Thinking Fit]
Our Interculturality Is Not Your Interculturality
Becoming Aware of ‘Our’ Centrisms
On the Need to Increase Our Chances of Meeting ‘Otherwise’ and Beyond the Only Human
The Post-/Decolonial and Interculturality
Learning with Intercultural Philosophy
The More than Human and Ecology
Reflecting Afresh on Interculturality in and Through Art
Tianque Ding 丁天缺: Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yunnan (1980) and Life (1999)
Fu Aimin 付爱民’s Genies in the Woods (2016)
Fred Dervin’s (2022) La Nature et Moi I
[Thinking Further]
Suggested Reading
References
Chapter 5: ‘Shut Your Eyes and See’ (Joyce)
References
Index