Unsung Mavericks in Intercultural Communication, Education and Research

For over 25 years, Fred Dervin has contributed to redefining intercultural communication, education, and research. The University of Helsinki scholar challenges conventional paradigms with interdisciplinary insight, inspiring scholars, practitioners, and students to critically rethink and creatively reshape interculturality for our complex worlds. A defining characteristic of his 300+ publications is his commitment to the continuous re-examination of his own work.Stella Anne Achieng holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Lorraine (France). She is an associate member of the Centre de Recherche sur les Médiations (CREM) at the same institution. Her work focuses on interculturality and intercultural competence in higher education and foreign language education.

• 1. Introducing the ‘unsung’ in ICER Part I: Ethnographies of uncelebrated mavericks 2. ‘Where do you come from?’: Reflexive narratives of (un)celebrated trajectories and (b)othered identities 3. Marginalised voices, marginalised knowledge: A critical autoethnographic reflection on my PhD journey in Intercultural Communication Education in Finland 4. Daring to be bold: Writing life events as acts of transgression 5. Confronting marginalisation, seeking belonging: Transformative adaptability in an Algerian student’s intercultural journey 6. Quiet resilience in market-driven academia: Voicing the ‘otherwise’ through fictionalised autoethnographic fragments Part II: Encounters with mavericks 7. Bridging the gaps: The intersection of Deaf studies and intercultural education 8. Privilege and marginalisation in language education: A duoethnography of Colombian educators in diverse contexts 9. Teachers and students co-constructing intercultural understanding: Unheard voices’ multilingual stances in Australian business education 10. Deconstructing research in intercultural communication education: The researcher as an unlearning learner 11. Bridging worlds through decolonial intercultural dialogue: Understanding Indigenous ancestral medicine in Colombia 12. The un/seen pioneer of Ambiguity Tolerance: A palimpsestic reception of Else Frenkel-Brunswik’s scholarly work 13. The voice of the maverick is the intercultural voice: Rethinking interculturality through the philosophy of Reiner Schürmann 14. Concluding reflections. Between two worlds: At home (maybe) in neither…