Interculturality Beyond Divisions

This chapter introduces both the rationale and the objectives of this ambitious book. The author explains how it is embedded in his 25-year-old engagement with the notion of interculturality and in ‘constructions’ and ‘destructions’ of intercultural relations and encounters in the 2020s. The neologism of interculturologies is problematized and defined, examining the importance of mythologies and ideologies in research and education and their consequences on what we say about and do with interculturality. Finally, the author explains the book's working principles of criticality of criticality and de-re-languaging to review the 100 entries (100 interculturologies) included in the book.