Language & Intercultural Communication
Editor: Dr John Corbett (University of Glasgow)
Associate Editor: Robert Crawshaw (Lancaster University)
Reviews and Criticism Editor: Dr Fiona J. Doloughan (University of Surrey)
Editorial Board: Gavin Jack (University of Stirling)
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Volume: 4 Number: 4 Page: 209–228
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Relating to Our Work, Accounting for Our Selves: The Autobiographical Imperative in Teaching About Difference
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Crispin Thurlow
Department of Communication, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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The central thesis in this essay is the need to get more personal and more political in our thinking and especially our teaching about interculturality. Offering a ‘radical’ critique of the agenda of conventional Intercultural Communication scholarship, I draw my inspiration from the conceptual and philosophical roots of the field, while also proposing political and pedagogical routes for the future. In addition to ideas from feminist literary theory, philosophy, modern history and psychoanalysis, I am especially concerned to exploit the striking points of contact between the fields of Intercultural Communication, critical pedagogy and progressive theology. The stance I take towards interculturality upholds the role of the experiential and autobiographical (i.e. the local and personal) in engaging, both as scholars and as everyday communicators, with a more broadly, critically conceived notion of difference.
Keywords: intercultural communication, religion, autobiography, critical pedagogy, difference
© 2004 C. Thurlow
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