Making Sense of the Intercultural

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.

Chapter 1: Distant lands and the everyday Kati in Exia Main events, storyline and concepts Matt and the woman on the train The 'getting on with life' grand narrative Getting to the deCentred: The Moor's account What it takes to listen to the deCentred Chapter 2: DeCentred threads resist the expected The problem with 'integration' Working with children as expert agents of culture and identity The intertwined nature of identity construction A critical cosmopolitan, deCentred discourse of culture Searching for hidden spaces Chapter 3: Centred threads become blocks Choosing to find threads Dangerous threads: Kati and Eli Talking to Wissaal about clothes: threads of ambivalence Behind the scenes sense-making of threads or not threads Kati, Eli and Matt visit 'the foreign': blocks and threads at work Building interculturality Chapter 4: Who are we as researchers? Excavating our own researcher agendas In this together Chapter 5: Getting on with deCentred life Meeting undergraduate students Another unexpected deCentred thread Connecting back to other events Conclusions