Haynes Collins is Professor of Intercultural Studies at the University of Leeds.Ramzi Merabet is an Associate Professor in Language and Intercultural Studies at the University of Leeds.

"The edited volume represents an important critical intervention, interrogating the role of intercultural studies in an increasingly endangered and polarised world. The book addresses some of the most relevant issues facing the field through diverse voices that attest to its vitality. One notable strength is the insistence on unpacking the meaning of ‘intercultural’ to challenge established paradigms that have become hegemonic. Through critical interrogation and theoretical engagement, this collection offers a rigorous critique of how interculturalism is often co-opted by neoliberal agendas. It is essential reading for anyone interested in navigating the complex and contested terrain of contemporary intercultural studies."- Giuliana Ferri, Associate Professor in Language and Intercultural Communication, IOE University College London, Department of Culture, Communication and Media"This important collection brings together an ensemble of forward-thinking researchers in meaningful dialogue to consider how current relations of power within the theory and practice of intercultural communication can be superseded, and what these ‘even newer’ times might look like - not only in higher education, but in a number of different arenas worldwide."- Malcolm N. MacDonald (University of Warwick), Editor-in-Chief, Language and Intercultural Communication

• Lists of figures, Introduction, 1. Disruption or emancipation? Research on the intercultural and its modes of interaction with the social (Dominic Busch), 2. Disrupting Integration: Towards a Relational Paradigm in Intercultural Language Education for Adult Migrants (Denise Paola Holguín Vaca), 3. Power and/in Intercultural Communication: A Critical Appraisal (Flavia Monceri), 4. The Political Implications of Interculturality as a Floating Signifier in Public Policy in Argentina (Samanta Guiñazú and Laura Kropff Causa), 5. From small cultures to the varicultural flow: situated deCentred social action (Adrian Holliday), 6. The Institutionalised Othering of International Students: Decentring and rethinking (Victoria Odeniyi), 7. Living with interculturality: Acquiescing and disrupting (Haynes Collins and Ramzi Merabet), 8. Languages, policies and interculturality in Danish Higher Education, 2019-24 (Kirsten Jæger and Hanne Tange), 9. The University with Open Doors: Creative Disruptions in the Challenges of Interculturality in Brazilian Higher Education (Alessandra Simões Paiva), 10. Disrupted lives, disrupted identities: War, displacement, and language choice in Ukraine (Mariia Ilchenko), 11. Open Conversation Among Contributors (Haynes Collins, Ramzi Merabet, Dominic Busch, Laura Kropff Causa, Samanta Guiñazú, Denise Paola Holguín Vaca, Adrian Holliday, Mariia Ilchenko, Kirsten Jæger, Flavia Monceri, Victoria Odeniyi, Alessandra Simões Paiva and Hanne Tange), Chapter 12: Implications: Closure, Disruption and Interculturality (Haynes Collins and Ramzi Merabet), Index.

Haynes Collins is Professor of Intercultural Studies at the University of Leeds.Ramzi Merabet is an Associate Professor in Language and Intercultural Studies at the University of Leeds.

"The edited volume represents an important critical intervention, interrogating the role of intercultural studies in an increasingly endangered and polarised world. The book addresses some of the most relevant issues facing the field through diverse voices that attest to its vitality. One notable strength is the insistence on unpacking the meaning of ‘intercultural’ to challenge established paradigms that have become hegemonic. Through critical interrogation and theoretical engagement, this collection offers a rigorous critique of how interculturalism is often co-opted by neoliberal agendas. It is essential reading for anyone interested in navigating the complex and contested terrain of contemporary intercultural studies."- Giuliana Ferri, Associate Professor in Language and Intercultural Communication, IOE University College London, Department of Culture, Communication and Media"This important collection brings together an ensemble of forward-thinking researchers in meaningful dialogue to consider how current relations of power within the theory and practice of intercultural communication can be superseded, and what these ‘even newer’ times might look like - not only in higher education, but in a number of different arenas worldwide."- Malcolm N. MacDonald (University of Warwick), Editor-in-Chief, Language and Intercultural Communication

• Lists of figures, Introduction, 1. Disruption or emancipation? Research on the intercultural and its modes of interaction with the social (Dominic Busch), 2. Disrupting Integration: Towards a Relational Paradigm in Intercultural Language Education for Adult Migrants (Denise Paola Holguín Vaca), 3. Power and/in Intercultural Communication: A Critical Appraisal (Flavia Monceri), 4. The Political Implications of Interculturality as a Floating Signifier in Public Policy in Argentina (Samanta Guiñazú and Laura Kropff Causa), 5. From small cultures to the varicultural flow: situated deCentred social action (Adrian Holliday), 6. The Institutionalised Othering of International Students: Decentring and rethinking (Victoria Odeniyi), 7. Living with interculturality: Acquiescing and disrupting (Haynes Collins and Ramzi Merabet), 8. Languages, policies and interculturality in Danish Higher Education, 2019-24 (Kirsten Jæger and Hanne Tange), 9. The University with Open Doors: Creative Disruptions in the Challenges of Interculturality in Brazilian Higher Education (Alessandra Simões Paiva), 10. Disrupted lives, disrupted identities: War, displacement, and language choice in Ukraine (Mariia Ilchenko), 11. Open Conversation Among Contributors (Haynes Collins, Ramzi Merabet, Dominic Busch, Laura Kropff Causa, Samanta Guiñazú, Denise Paola Holguín Vaca, Adrian Holliday, Mariia Ilchenko, Kirsten Jæger, Flavia Monceri, Victoria Odeniyi, Alessandra Simões Paiva and Hanne Tange), Chapter 12: Implications: Closure, Disruption and Interculturality (Haynes Collins and Ramzi Merabet), Index.

Haynes Collins is Professor of Intercultural Studies at the University of Leeds.Ramzi Merabet is an Associate Professor in Language and Intercultural Studies at the University of Leeds.

"The edited volume represents an important critical intervention, interrogating the role of intercultural studies in an increasingly endangered and polarised world. The book addresses some of the most relevant issues facing the field through diverse voices that attest to its vitality. One notable strength is the insistence on unpacking the meaning of ‘intercultural’ to challenge established paradigms that have become hegemonic. Through critical interrogation and theoretical engagement, this collection offers a rigorous critique of how interculturalism is often co-opted by neoliberal agendas. It is essential reading for anyone interested in navigating the complex and contested terrain of contemporary intercultural studies."- Giuliana Ferri, Associate Professor in Language and Intercultural Communication, IOE University College London, Department of Culture, Communication and Media"This important collection brings together an ensemble of forward-thinking researchers in meaningful dialogue to consider how current relations of power within the theory and practice of intercultural communication can be superseded, and what these ‘even newer’ times might look like - not only in higher education, but in a number of different arenas worldwide."- Malcolm N. MacDonald (University of Warwick), Editor-in-Chief, Language and Intercultural Communication

• Lists of figures, Introduction, 1. Disruption or emancipation? Research on the intercultural and its modes of interaction with the social (Dominic Busch), 2. Disrupting Integration: Towards a Relational Paradigm in Intercultural Language Education for Adult Migrants (Denise Paola Holguín Vaca), 3. Power and/in Intercultural Communication: A Critical Appraisal (Flavia Monceri), 4. The Political Implications of Interculturality as a Floating Signifier in Public Policy in Argentina (Samanta Guiñazú and Laura Kropff Causa), 5. From small cultures to the varicultural flow: situated deCentred social action (Adrian Holliday), 6. The Institutionalised Othering of International Students: Decentring and rethinking (Victoria Odeniyi), 7. Living with interculturality: Acquiescing and disrupting (Haynes Collins and Ramzi Merabet), 8. Languages, policies and interculturality in Danish Higher Education, 2019-24 (Kirsten Jæger and Hanne Tange), 9. The University with Open Doors: Creative Disruptions in the Challenges of Interculturality in Brazilian Higher Education (Alessandra Simões Paiva), 10. Disrupted lives, disrupted identities: War, displacement, and language choice in Ukraine (Mariia Ilchenko), 11. Open Conversation Among Contributors (Haynes Collins, Ramzi Merabet, Dominic Busch, Laura Kropff Causa, Samanta Guiñazú, Denise Paola Holguín Vaca, Adrian Holliday, Mariia Ilchenko, Kirsten Jæger, Flavia Monceri, Victoria Odeniyi, Alessandra Simões Paiva and Hanne Tange), Chapter 12: Implications: Closure, Disruption and Interculturality (Haynes Collins and Ramzi Merabet), Index.