From Here to Diversity: Globalization and Intercultural Dialogues

Introduction

 

Part I – Intercultural Representations

Clara Sarmento
A Lady’s Visit to Manilla and Japan: Gender, travel and intercultural representations

Dalila Lopes
Lisbon in that Summer of 1938: Antonio Tabucchi’s Pereira Declares

Enrique Banús and Consuela Dobrescu
Travel as Solution – Travel as Problem

Maria João Cordeiro
‘Fishermen, Donkeys and Trams’: Tourist representations of Portugal

Mark Anderson
Intercultural Communication, the American Frontier Myth, and Several 9-11s

Nausica Zaballos
Encompassing the Southwest spirit in Jacob Trapp’s poems

Nejat Ulusay
Immigrant Women’s Cinema in Germany: Representations of migration through mother-daughter relationships

Tim Oswald
Representations across Cultures: Tradition in tourism literature

 

Part II – Cultural Globalization

Catherine MacMillan
Orientalist Discourse and Turkey’s EU Accession Process

Cristina Pinto da Silva
Know Thyself. The notion of teaching operating principles in teacher education

Jieyu Wang
Chinese Language Education in the U.S.

Malina Ciocea, Paul Dobrescu, and Diana Cismaru
Changing Patterns of Consumerism in Young People in Romania

Morgan Luck
My Culture is better than your Culture: Should intercultural dialogue lead to cultural elitism?

Vildan Mahmutoğlu
Global Media Entertainment: Star Search

Ziad Alrawadieh
The Impact of Tourism on The Dialogue Between Cultures

 

Part III – Sailing the Intercultural

David Inglis
Globality and Early Modern Mobility: Portuguese Explorations and the Rise of Global Consciousness

Aone Engelenhoven
The War of the Words: Lexical parallelism in Fataluku ritual discourse

Eugénia Rodrigues
Colonial Society, Women and African culture in Mozambique

Johanna Schouten
The gender factor in a multicultural context: Dutch and Asians in Batavia

Maria de Deus Manso
Portuguese Expansion and the Construction of Globalization

Paulo Castro Seixas
The Brothers, the Voyage and the Book: Cultural Topologies in East-Timor

Phillip Rothwell
Perverse Prosperos and Cruel Calibans

Bibliography
Contributors
Index

From Here to Diversity: Globalization and Intercultural Dialogues sees interculturalism as movement, transit, travel, the dynamics between cultures. Contemporary intercultural travel is a global journey, a circumnavigation at the speed of light that underwrites all the comings and goings, the departures and arrivals, the transmissions and receptions that are implicit in this title. Hence, From Here to Diversity examines the motivations, characteristics, and implications of cultural interactions in their perpetual movement, devoid of spatial or temporal borders, in a dangerous but stimulating indefinition of limits.

In the contemporary intercultural dialogue, new voices are making themselves heard, as valuable sources of study: the voices of women; non-occidentals; the non-powerful; forgotten narratives of a past that was as intercultural as the present (after all, what is colonialism other than a perverse form of interculturality?); global entertainment; tourism; oral literature; diaries; mythical narratives; the cinema; ethnography; new teachings, among so many others.

Because this project is also intercultural at its source and subject, From Here to Diversity: Globalization and Intercultural Dialogues adds to the coherence of the project by including contributions from the most wide-ranging backgrounds and nationalities, without fear of the alterity that, after all, we propose to study.

Work selected by Scholars Publishing for “Book of the Month, August 2012 – Social Sciences”.

Work invited by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the II World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue, Baku, Azerbaijan, May 29th to June 1st 2013.

Work selected as a course book in:

1. “Diálogo Intercultural e Política Mundial” (15 IR 445), International Relations degree, Economics, Administrations and Sciences Faculty, Kadir Has Universitesi, Istanbul, 2014.
2. “Global Relations and Intercultural Communication”, School of Journalism and Public Relations, Skopjie, Macedonia, 2013.

Recomended reading by the director of the Global Communication Center and vice-president of JAIST – Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, 2018.

Selected for the “Readings in ICD” list of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue, under the auspices of the Council of Communication Associations (CCA), Washington DC. LINK

 

REFERENCES

ECREA Autumn 2010 newsletter – European Communication Research and Education Association, issue 7, p. 11.
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) newsletter, nº 61, Autumn 2012, p. 13.
Verbete “Tutuala”, Wikipédia.
ECREA Young Scholars Network websites; IELT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Instituto Politécnico do Porto; Asma Book Reviews (Jordânia); Center for Intercultural Dialogue, Council of Communication Associations.

REVIEW
Niels Mulder, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Newsletter, nº 65, Autumn 2013, p. 15.

LIBRARIES

According to the World Catalogue, this book is available in 849 libraries around the world (september 2022). LINK

QUOTES

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