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Experiencing multiple Englishes, putting aside native-non-native-speaker categories

February 1, 2023 | Filed under: Researching and writing the intercultural

I was recently unlucky enough to spend a night and almost two days in hospital accident & emergency and outpatients departments. Suffice it to say that the health traumas that took me there had by then subsided; and I was well enough to look around and observe the remarkable interactions …

The difficult business of finding deCentred threads and putting aside racist narratives

November 7, 2022 | Filed under: Researching and writing the intercultural

I recently spent a week in a German town, going to work every day to the university. Despite my huge experience of travel, I had difficulty dealing with particular unfamiliar cultural practices.  There were cycle lanes on the pavements and at pedestrian crossings; whereas in Britain they’re in the road. …

A means for making sense of ourselves and others in varicultural research settings

October 28, 2022 | Filed under: Researching and writing the intercultural

The small culture diagram from the last blog can be used again and again.  In my small cultures paper I compare the blue bounded part to the slice of biological life, often termed ‘a culture’, one might look at down a microscope. However, in social research, the bounded part is …

A varicultural reality

September 18, 2022 | Filed under: Researching and writing the intercultural

Every so often we can come up with an idea that helps us to understand other ideas that we’ve been struggling with. This is a fragment of the diagram  from my small cultures paper in 1999, and then used again on page 42 in my qualitative research book.  The orange …

Colonisation and the problem with interview as commodified data

August 17, 2022 | Filed under: Researching and writing the intercultural

It is easy to think that the increased attention to decolonisation is a bandwagon which feeds a neoliberal tick-box activity, and that anyway I’ve already been addressing it under the heading of deCentring. However, focusing on the concept does lead to a renewed sorting out of thinking. Then I heard …

Involving the everyday in researching the intercultural

April 2, 2022 | Filed under: Researching and writing the intercultural

Whenever we research or involve others in researching the intercultural it is an immense resource if we can connect with everyday experience. The intercultural is not a distant place to do with foreign lands and international travel. It is all around us all the time. Also, researching the intercultural begins …

Beginning with the small, but what we need to know

February 14, 2022 | Filed under: Researching and writing the intercultural

Watching intercultural life while sitting and writing in a café. I take out my earphones to listen. At one table is an older woman waiting for two other older women queuing to get coffee. At a second table is an older man with a younger woman, perhaps his daughter. The …

What is a small culture?

November 27, 2021 | Filed under: Researching and writing the intercultural

Is a small culture an actual place with boundaries, or is it a shifting, transient, ‘on the go’ collection of practices and values which has just enough permanence to be recognisable? Let’s consider a small shop in the high street. Its natural boundaries might seem clear – the definable space …

The dangerous nature of an intercultural encounter

October 29, 2021 | Filed under: Researching and writing the intercultural

There is something culturally different but familiar about the people at the next table in the café. I theorise about their background from how they dress, stand, their features and so on. Then I get a better clue when I recognise the language they are speaking and can even understand …

Going back to what the reader needs to know in the introduction

June 18, 2021 | Filed under: Researching and writing the intercultural

As I get to the last two weeks before submitting my manuscript I am back again to the first chapter. Finding it impossible to write, I decided instead to edit through all the other chapters and get them word-perfect as much as is possible. Doing this quickly enabled me to …

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