Intercultural Hermeneutics and the Cross-cultural Subject

Marotta, Vince

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“…2. Reflexivity • Reflexivity involves exploration of self-positioning, to understand the lenses that influence our understanding of one another.• Operating in the intercultural space is affected by history, social influences, family experiences and personality, and thus the reflexive encounter with one’s self can reveal qualities projected on to the ‘other’ [71]. • Kowal and Paradies argue that many ‘whites’ working among Indigenous people tend to be liberal-thinking, left-leaning and ‘anti-racist’ [26].…”

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“…• Consideration of these theories prompts partners to collaboratively explore what boundaries need to be maintained and why, where there may be potential for ‘crossing’, and which aspects within the partnership could potentially facilitate or hinder a crossing or successful intercultural exchange.5. Strangeness • Refers to both the ‘experience of strangeness’, and the ‘position of stranger’ (an individual or group different to the majority) [71]. • The ambivalent position of the stranger can cause confusion and anxiety in the majority world, as they make the porous nature of social boundaries explicit [71].…”

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“…• The stranger can question the ‘taken for granted’ world of the host and this uncertainty creates an opportunity for a critical understanding of the host’s world. In this sense, Indigenous actors partnering with mainstream bodies, by their position as minority and strangers in a white-dominated society, offer potential to critically examine partnerships. Individual (agency) Organisation (structure) • Individuals experience degrees of ‘strangeness’ when physically close to—but socially and culturally distant from—someone [71]. • Dominant systems and paradigms should be interrogated [84].…”

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Examining the potential contribution of social theory to developing and supporting Australian Indigenous-mainstream health service partnerships

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Taylor

Durey

et al. 2014

Int J Equity Health

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IntroductionThe substantial gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians has been slow to improve, despite increased dedicated funding. Partnerships between Australian Indigenous and mainstream Western biomedical organisations are recognised as crucial to improved Indigenous health outcomes. However, these partnerships often experience challenges, particularly in the context of Australia’s race and political relations.MethodsWe examined the relevant literature in order to identify the potential role for social theory and theoretical models in developing and maintaining intercultural partnerships. Having identified relevant theoretical models, terms and possible key words, a range of databases were searched and relevant articles selected for inclusion. An integrative approach brought together theoretical models and practical considerations about working in partnership, to inform our analysis of the literature.FindingsConsidering partnerships between Australian Indigenous and mainstream health organisations as ‘bi-cultural’ is simplistic: rather they are culturally diverse across social and professional levels. As such, partnerships between Australian Indigenous and mainstream health organisations may be better conceptualised as ‘intercultural’, operating across diverse and shifting cultural frames of reference. Theories identified by this review as useful to guide partnerships include power relations, reflexivity and dialogue, borders and strangeness and the intercultural or third space. This paper examines how these theoretical approaches can develop understanding and improve intercultural engagement between mainstream and Australian Indigenous partners in healthcare.ConclusionsRather than viewing partnerships merely as arrangements between disembodied entities, sometimes contractual in nature, they are better seen as activities between people and organisations and essentially dependent on relationships, occurring in an intercultural space that is complex, dynamic and subject to changes in power relations. Theoretical models aiming to understand and improve partnerships indicate the complexity of building and maintaining such partnerships and stress the importance of understanding factors that can strengthen or derail their effectiveness. While the theories presented here are by no means exhaustive, they nonetheless provide a series of entry points through which to engage with the issue and expand the discourse. This approach allows the transformative nature of Australian Indigenous-mainstream ‘culture’ to be explored and understood in its lived expression; rather than relegated to prescriptive categories.

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“…In modern societies, many different cultures are living next to each other in the same place. In modern cultures, especially newcomers are often considered as strangers, physically close but socially and culturally distant (Marotta 2009). Postmodern globalization, structured by a variety of information and communication networks, is characterized by a situation where we can be physically distant, but socially and culturally close.…”

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Horizons of Hermeneutics: Intercultural Hermeneutics in a Globalizing World

Mul¹

2011

Frontiers of Philosophy in China

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Starting from the often-used metaphor of the "horizon of experience" this article discusses three different types of intercultural hermeneutics, which respectively conceive hermeneutic interpretation as a widening of horizons, a fusion of horizons, and a dissemination of horizons. It is argued that these subsequent stages in the history of hermeneutics have their origin in-but are not fully restricted to-respectively premodern, modern and postmodern stages of globalization. Taking some striking moments of the encounter between Western and Chinese language and philosophy as example, the particular merits and flaws of these three types of hermeneutics are being discussed. The claim defended is that although these different types of hermeneutics are mutually exclusive from a theoretical point of view, as interpreting beings in the current era we depend on each of these distinct hermeneutic practices and cannot avoid living them simultaneously.

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“…(Darwish 2003, 10) The residency in the state of wait and hope to return to the home, or even the total despair and agony for the home that is lost, makes new type of human condition that is unique to the refugees. By human condition, sociologists refer to a kind of ambivalent position that refugee occupies in relation to the world from the moment they leave home (Bauman, 1991(Bauman, , 2000Simmel, 1994;Marotta, 2000Marotta, , 2008Marotta, , 2009Marotta, , 2012. It is this ambivalence that makes remapping the new home and the new social identity a hard and ongoing task of the refugee's life in the host community.…”

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The other at the threshold: A Husserlian analysis of ethics and violence in the home/alien encounter

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According to UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), there are seven criteria for refugee resettlement eligibility, which are: 'legal or physical protection needs, survivors of torture or violence, medical needs, women and girls at risk, family reunification, children and adolescents at risk and lack of foreseeable alternative durable solution'. But even with all these criteria selection, an Australian refugee category visa still requires additional criteria which are more onerous to be met.

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Intercultural Hermeneutics and the Cross-cultural Subject

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Examining the potential contribution of social theory to developing and supporting Australian Indigenous-mainstream health service partnerships

Examining the potential contribution of social theory to developing and supporting Australian Indigenous-mainstream health service partnerships

Horizons of Hermeneutics: Intercultural Hermeneutics in a Globalizing World

The other at the threshold: A Husserlian analysis of ethics and violence in the home/alien encounter

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