Stepping into the vibrant and uncharted margins of Intercultural Communication, Education and Research (ICER), this edited volume challenges the fields 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.
1. Introducing the unsung in ICER Part I: Ethnographies of
uncelebrated mavericks
2. Where do you come from?: Reflexive narratives of
(un)celebrated trajectories and (b)othered identities
3. Marginalised voices,
marginalised knowledge: A critical autoethnographic reflection on my PhD
journey in Intercultural Communication Education in Finland
4. Daring to be
bold: Writing life events as acts of transgression
5. Confronting
marginalisation, seeking belonging: Transformative adaptability in an
Algerian students intercultural journey
6. Quiet resilience in market-driven
academia: Voicing the otherwise through fictionalised autoethnographic
fragments Part II: Encounters with mavericks
7. Bridging the gaps: The
intersection of Deaf studies and intercultural education
8. Privilege and
marginalisation in language education: A duoethnography of Colombian
educators in diverse contexts
9. Teachers and students co-constructing
intercultural understanding: Unheard voices multilingual stances in
Australian business education
10. Deconstructing research in intercultural
communication education: The researcher as an unlearning learner
11. Bridging
worlds through decolonial intercultural dialogue: Understanding Indigenous
ancestral medicine in Colombia
12. The un/seen pioneer of Ambiguity
Tolerance: A palimpsestic reception of Else Frenkel-Brunswiks scholarly work
13. The voice of the maverick is the intercultural voice: Rethinking
interculturality through the philosophy of Reiner Schürmann
14. Concluding
reflections. Between two worlds: At home (maybe) in neither
For over 25 years, Fred Dervin has contributed to redefining intercultural communication, education, and research. The University of Helsinki scholar challenges conventional paradigms with interdisciplinary insight, inspiring scholars, practitioners, and students to critically rethink and creatively reshape interculturality for our complex worlds. A defining characteristic of his 300+ publications is his commitment to the continuous re-examination of his own work.
Stella Anne Achieng holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Lorraine (France). She is an associate member of the Centre de Recherche sur les Médiations (CREM) at the same institution. Her work focuses on interculturality and intercultural competence in higher education and foreign language education.
