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Adrian Holliday - Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural, Häftad

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Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural

Av Adrian Holliday

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Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural uses an autoethnographic account of the author’s experience of living in Iran in the 1970s to demonstrate the constant struggle to prevent the intercultural from being dominated by essentialist grand narratives that falsely define us within separate, bounded national or civilisational cultures.This book provides critical insight that: DeCentres how we encounter and research the intercultural by means of a third-space methodology Recovers the figurative, creative, flowing, and boundary-dissolving power of culture Recognises hybrid integration which enables us the choice and agency to be ourselves with others in intercultural settings Demonstrates how early native-speakerism pulls us back to essentialist large-culture blocks.Aimed at students and researchers in applied linguistics, intercultural studies, sociology, and education, this volume shows how cultural difference in stories, personal space, language, practices, and values generates unexpected and transcendent threads of experience to which we can all relate within small culture formation on the go.
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Adrian Holliday is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Intercultural Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

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"As an authoritative interpreter of the intercultural, Holliday has made yet another significant contribution, this time by autoethnographically interrogating the grand narrative of Orientalism juxtaposing it with native-speakerism. Cautioning against "replacing one Othering with another," he opens up "creative diversity beyond large-culture fixity." He has done so by combining the personal, the professional and the political, and more commendably, by de-centering himself as a researcher and intercultural traveler"Professor-Emeritus B. Kumaravadivelu, San Jose State University, California, USA."Holliday provides a brilliantly honest and acutely observed intercultural auto-ethnography based on his journal of Iran in the 70’s. The careful weaving of the personal with the theoretical traces the ‘splintering’ of grand narratives into the contingency and detail of everyday experience beautifully" Cristina Ros i Solé, Goldsmiths, University of London.

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