Intercultural Dialogue in Recent Afrikaans Literary Texts: A Discourse of Identity

Good intentions are not enough: a decolonizing intercultural education

“…However, absent from this scholarship is evidence that intercultural dialogue contributes in any way to eliminating, or even mitigating, systemic inequities (DeTurk 2006). But this body of scholarship does include several studies that reveal the colonizing outcomes of intercultural dialogue when it is not grounded in an acknowledgement of inequities in access to power -including imbalances of power among the participants themselves -and a bigger movement toward social reconstruction (DeTurk 2006;James 1999;Jones 1999;López-Garay 2001;Maoz 2001;Wasserman 2001).…”