The Concise Routledge Encyclopaedia of New Concepts for Interculturality

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Prof. Dervin specializes in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism and international mobilities in education. Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the 'canon' of intercultural communication education research has been one of Dervin's idée fixes in his work over the past 20 years. He has published over 160 articles and 80 books in different languages on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration. His latest books published with Routledge also include Communicating around Interculturality in Research and Education (2023), The Paradoxes of Interculturality and Intercultural Communication Education and Research (co-authored with R'boul, 2023).

Hamza R'boul is a research assistant professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavours in education, cultural politics of language teaching and postcoloniality. His recent books published with Routledge include Intercultural Communication Education and Research: Reenvisioning Fundamental Notions (co-authored with Dervin, 2023), and Postcolonial Challenges to Theory and Practice in ELT and TESOL: Geopolitics of Knowledge and Epistemologies of the South (2023).

Ning Chen is Lecturer at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (China) and Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr Chen specializes in diversity in higher education. His publications focus on intercultural teacher training and education, well-being in Chinese higher education and the interplay between internationalization of universities and interculturality.