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[ecrea] new book: Diálogos Interculturais: Os Novos Rumos da Viagem [Intercultural Dialogues: New Directions for the Journey]

Mon Jun 13 05:52:00 GMT 2011


/Diálogos Interculturais: //Os Novos Rumos da Viagem// /[/Intercultural Dialogues//: New Directions for the Journey/]

Edited by Clara Sarmento (Centre for Intercultural Studies, Polytechnic Institute of Porto).

Porto: Vida Económica, may 2011.

ISBN: 978-972-788-413-1

512 pages

Languages: Portuguese, French, English.

Website, contents and sample: http://livraria.vidaeconomica.pt/46-ver-todos/334-dialogos-interculturais-os-novos-rumos-da-viagem.html

In /Diálogos Interculturais: //Os Novos Rumos da Viagem// /[/Intercultural Dialogues//: New Directions for the Journey/], interculturalism is synonymous with mobility, traffic, the dynamics between cultures. This perpetual motion underlyes the departures and returns of the /Journey/, the transmission and reception of the /Dialogues/, without spatial or temporal boundaries, in a dangerous and stimulant blurring of boundaries.


Contemporary interculturalism (re)builds new identities, surfs on the internet and travels to destinations which are no longer exotic, as they become more and more accessible. Interculturality is commodified, becomes part of the day-to-day experience, takes new directions. New voices are heard in the intercultural dialogue, as sources of study until recently marginal: the voices of women; of forgotten stories from a past that was as intercultural as the present (what is colonialism but a perverse interculturality?); of global media; of oral narratives; of fiction, diaries, and epistolography; of art; of new pedagogies and technologies. But this polyphony of cultures is also likely to create new conflicts, which pass from the extraordinary to the everyday common practice.


/Diálogos Interculturais: //Os Novos Rumos da Viagem// /[/Intercultural Dialogues//: New Directions for the Journey/] brings together authors from several nationalities and backgrounds, across subjects traditionally opposed. Rather unusually, this book travels across the fields of knowledge of Literature, Law, Communication, Sociology, Teaching and Tourism, among many others, because all these areas provide texts which can serve as roadmaps for the journey proposed here. This project proves the dynamics of an international team of researchers, who are not afraid to depart for destinations unknown, aspiring to create new maps to guide us all.

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