Identifying Key Intercultural Urgencies, Issues, and Challenges in Today's World: Connecting Our Scholarship to Dynamic Contexts and Historical Moments

Abstract

In the next section of the discussion, the participating scholars elaborate on their views of the most pressing intercultural urgencies, issues, and challenges that we face in today's world. The discussants identify both historically persistent and newly emerging challenges and crises that greatly impact our world's communities, their health and well-being, the environment, war and violence, oppression, domination, resistance, and political consequences far into the future. It is clear that the perceived “intercultural urgencies” reach deep within and far beyond specific relational episodes and communicative moments. These scholars delineate the many trajectories for much-needed examination, analysis, critique, and intervention.

Notes

[1] I suggest constitutive identity is the active, ongoing construction of identity that includes some form of agency or self-determination, while constituted identity relies on dominant discourses to impose identity markers to define the self.

[2] I have to admit that I am not completely familiar with the work of Talal Asad; I might be interpreting these words out of the contexts.