Ning Chen is Lecturer at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China, and Visiting Researcher/Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His work focuses on critical and reflexive approaches to interculturality in education and beyond.Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. With over 300 publications, he aims to disrupt conventional understandings of identity and global interaction.

• 1. Interculturality, capital and ideology: Analysing the Labubu phenomenon 2. Problematising Labubu’s storyless appeal 3. Global fever, local divides: A critical discourse analysis of Labubu communities 4. Labubu as a floating signifier in a hyper-capitalist world 5. Contemporary interculturality and the storyless connections of a divided world

Ning Chen is Lecturer at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China, and Visiting Researcher/Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His work focuses on critical and reflexive approaches to interculturality in education and beyond.Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. With over 300 publications, he aims to disrupt conventional understandings of identity and global interaction.

• 1. Interculturality, capital and ideology: Analysing the Labubu phenomenon 2. Problematising Labubu’s storyless appeal 3. Global fever, local divides: A critical discourse analysis of Labubu communities 4. Labubu as a floating signifier in a hyper-capitalist world 5. Contemporary interculturality and the storyless connections of a divided world

Ning Chen is Lecturer at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China, and Visiting Researcher/Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His work focuses on critical and reflexive approaches to interculturality in education and beyond.Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. With over 300 publications, he aims to disrupt conventional understandings of identity and global interaction.

• 1. Interculturality, capital and ideology: Analysing the Labubu phenomenon 2. Problematising Labubu’s storyless appeal 3. Global fever, local divides: A critical discourse analysis of Labubu communities 4. Labubu as a floating signifier in a hyper-capitalist world 5. Contemporary interculturality and the storyless connections of a divided world