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 'Westernization' and Modernity Chapter 6: A Grammar of Culture Negotiating Culture Particular Content and Universal Process Particular Social and Political Structures Particular Cultural Products Underlying Universal Cultural Processes Chapter 7: Discourses of Cultural Disbelief Penetrating Professional Discourses Sustained Disbelief The Intercultural Line and the Third Space Chapter 8: Creative Cultural Engagement Qing and the Seminar Learning from the Margins Chapter 9: Culture, Real or Imagined? The Centrality of Ideology The Fact of Ideology Cultural Realism Conclusion Glossary