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Self-Other constructions in different kinds of intercultural communication Intercultural communication happens in different spaces not always obviously ‘intercultural’. This conversation aims to encompass how in various kinds of adversities the self-other is constructed through some form of intercultural communication, and how they might be constructed ‘better’ to support human agency and social inclusion for social action. I’ll begin by very briefly introducing, as a focus, three bodies of research I’ve been involved with recently. The first encompasses work across Europe investigating how displaced people might be helped back into professional employment (broadly defined) in their new host societies. This centred on intercultural communication in language education involving groups simultaneously elite (as former professionals) and disadvantaged, as current or former refuges and/or asylum speakers. The second relates to a trans-European project to research and develop tools to promote Global Citizenship Education and Multilingual Competences (GCEMC) in schools. Here the interrelationships between construction of the self as a ‘citizen of the world’ push against national and other identities, calling, it can be argued, for urgent, effective intercultural communication and decolonisation. The third relates to research investigating dementia and communication in various care contexts in different countries and how this might be optimised through practices designed to resist stereotyping and stigmatising people living with dementia. I’d then like to open discussions up to involve SIG members in sharing ideas related to how we can and perhaps should reassess self-other where different kinds of ‘intercultural communication’ takes place.
Author(s): Young TJ
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: BAAL Special Interest Group in Intercultural Communication Seminar
Year of Conference: 2024
Online publication date: 17/05/2024
Acceptance date: 17/05/2024
Date deposited: 29/05/2024
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/3f49-zs15
