附註:"Routledge Focus".
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Distant lands and the everyday; Kati in Exia; Main events, storyline and concepts; Glossary; Investigating the dynamics of small culture formation on the go; Negotiating blocks and threads, developing interculturality; Narratives, positioning and social action; Constructivist, ethnographic research; Critical cosmopolitanism; DeCentring intervention in third spaces; Matt and the woman on the train; The 'getting on with life' grand narrative; Getting to the deCentred: The Moor's Account
The normality of the cultural travellerCentre, deCentre and positioning; The neoliberal Centre; What it takes to listen to the deCentred; 2 DeCentred threads resist the expected; The problem with 'integration'; Working with childrenas expert agents of culture and identity; Research events as expert exchange; Initial researcher reflection (Sara's voice); Setting up the workshops; First meeting; The intertwined nature of identity construction; A critical cosmopolitan, deCentred discourse of culture; Searching for hidden spaces; 3 Centred threads become blocks; Choosing to find threads
Dangerous threads: Kati and EliThreads that pull blocks; Blocking threads; Threading blocks; Talking to Wissaal about clothes: threads of ambivalence; 'Wearing shorts' and threads of non-participation; Behind the scenes: sense-making of threads or not threads; Kati, Eli and Matt visit 'the foreign': blocks and threads at work; Building interculturality; 4 Who are we as researchers?; Excavating our own researcher agendas; In this together; 5 Getting on with deCentred life; Meeting undergraduate students; Another unexpected deCentred thread; Connecting back to other events; Conclusions
摘要:In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and interculturality. Our purpose is to shake established views in what we consider to be an urgent quest for dealing with prejudice. We therefore seek to draw attention to the following: How Centre structures and large culture boundaries are sources of prejudice How deCentred intercultural threads address prejudice by dissolving these boundaries How, in everyday small culture formation on the go, the cultural and the intercultural are observable and become indistinguishable How agency, personal and grand narratives, discourses, and positioning become visible in unexpected ways How we researchers also bring competing narratives in making sense of the intercultural How third spaces are discordant and uncomfortable places in which all of us must struggle to achieve interculturality This book is therefore a journey of discovery with each chapter building on the previous ones. While throughout there are particular empirical events (interviews, reconstructed ethnographic accounts and research diary entries) with their own detailed analyses and insights, they connect back to discussion in previous chapters.
