Pluriversal possibilities for the Euro/U.S.-centric intercultural communication field? A review of the Gulf Cooperation Council states and Taiwan.

Autor: Bardhan, Soumia, Chen, Yea-Wen, AlSumait, Fahed Y., Lee, Pei-Wen, Wang, Huei Lan
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Zdroj: Annals of the International Communication Association; Sep2024, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p182-204, 23p
Abstrakt: The mainstream narrative of intercultural communication (IC) as a field remains Euro/U.S.-centric despite efforts to (re)imagine it from the margins. To shift this, in this exploratory essay we challenge the disciplinary contours of IC by using a pluriversal framework. We ask, how to pluriversalize Euro/U.S.-centric IC scholarship when it already penetrates non-European/U.S. spaces? And what lessons can this offer? To that end, we turn to a comparative review of the state of IC in the Gulf Cooperation Council states and Taiwan. We propose that to pluriversalize a focus on indigeneity and human-nature relationships is needed; and the concept of relational ontologies bind the two cases together and can be extended to other non-Euro/U.S. spaces so that pluriversal alternatives can appear. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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