Intercultural Mirrors

Dynamic Reconstruction of Identity
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39636-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Intercultural Mirrors: Dynamic Reconstruction of Identity contains (auto)ethnographic chapters and research-based explorations that uncover the ways our intercultural experiences influence our process of self-discovery and self-construction. The idea of intercultural mirrors is applied throughout all chapters as an instrument of analysis, an heuristic tool, drawn from philosophy, to provide a focus for the analysis of real life experiences. Plato noted that one could see one’s own reflection in the pupil of another’s eye, and suggested that the mirror image provided in the eye of the other person was an essential contributor to self-knowledge. Taking this as a cue, the contributors of this book have structured their writings around the idea that the view of us held by other people provides an essential key to one’s own self-understanding.

Contributors are: James Arvanitakis, Damian Cox, Mark Dinnen, James Ferguson, Tom Frengos, Dennis Harmon, Donna Henson, Alexandra Hoyt, William Kelly, Lucyann Kerry, Julia Kraven, Taryn Mathis, Tony McHugh, Raoul Mortley, Kristin Newton, Marie-Claire Patron, Darren Swanson, and Peter Mbago Wakholi.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Patron, Marie-Claire

Kraven, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Raoul Mortley

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1 Expansion of Self through Intercultural Experiences

Julia Kraven

2 Hansel and Gretel Revisited: Quixotic Reflections of Online Dating

Marie-Claire Patron

3 Doni Doni Kononi Danala – Little by Little the Little Bird Builds Its Nest: Intercultural Reflections: Western Travel in Non-Western Culture

Alexandra Hoyt

4 Migration and Making Sense of Place: Against a Backdrop of Negative Media Discourse About Africa

Peter Mbago Wakholi

5 Mirror Mirror: What Culture Am I?: Using Philosophy to Reconstruct Our Images and Cultural Identities

Tom Frengos

6 Spreading Roots Globally, Losing Roots Locally: Coming to Terms with Being an Expat as an Intercultural Identity

Lucyann Kerry

7 Barceloneta as Heterotopic Mirror: A Place of Different Spaces

Tony McHugh

8 Reflection and Aspiration: Mirrors and Models in Traditional European and Chinese Thought

R. James Ferguson

9 Becoming a Person through Intercultural Communication: A White American’s Experiences in Asia and Africa

William Kelly

10 Affect Mirrors

Damian Cox

11 List Yourself: An Autoethnography of Intercultural Identity

Donna Henson

12 I’m So Normal, I Must Be Different

Taryn J. Mathis

13 The Decentred Delegate: Adapting Identity within a Model United Nations Learning Environment

Dennis Harmon II and Mark Dinnen

14 Scotland the Brave? An Exile’s Perspective on Scottish Identity from Abroad

Darren Swanson

15 Intercultural Mirrors and Cultural Humility: My Journey as an Educator

James Arvanitakis

16 Cultural Observations and a Conversation about Drawing by a Wandering Artist

Kristin Newton

Über Autor(innen)

Marie-Claire Patron, Ph.D. (2006), University of South Australia, is Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication, French and Spanish at Bond University. She has published monographs, ethnographies and co-edited books on cultural identity issues, internationalisation of students and interpersonal relationship issues, including emotional and psychological abuse.

Julia Kraven, Ph.D. (2009), Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, has a background in English and Japanese Applied Linguistics. She is currently teaching ESL whilst doing her second Ph.D. in the field of Intercultural and Global Citizenship Education at Bond University, Australia.