Intercultural Communication and Ideology

Preface and methodology Chapter 1: Key Discussions Essentialism Neo-Essentialism Cosmopolitanism Imagined Certainty versus Acknowledged Complexity Chapter 2: Critical Cultural Awareness Models of Awareness A Reconstructed Narrative Critical Interpretivism A Decentred Reading Opening up Cultural Possibilities Chapter 3: Cultural Complexity Informants An Emergent Methodology Statements of Cultural Identity Competing Social Theories Complexity and Politics Thinking about China Chapter 4: The Indelible Politics of Self and Other Othering The Morality of 'Helping' Struggling with Identity Recognition Understanding the Discourse Politics of Othering Chapter 5: Un-Noticed Periphery Identities Claiming the World…