期刊名称：Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures & Societies
印刷版ISSN：1948-1845
电子版ISSN：1948-1853
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：3-4
出版社：Wright State University
摘要：In this paper, we explore the development of a critical pedagogy that disrupts stereotypical and ethnocentric convictions and articulations of culture, identity, and the 'self'. Drawing on the concepts of 'hybridity' and 'third space' (Bhabha 1994), 'diasporic philosophy', and 'dialogism' after (Bakhtin 1981) , this paper explores the potential of 'Dialogic Spaces' (DS) to open epistemological outlets that enable hybrid, diasporic thinking in order to deconstruct dichotomising tendencies of thinking about difference. By contextualising dialogue in a wider cultural inquiry, research participants were called to navigate between new and familiar meanings and to recognize multiple and complex alternatives through the negotiations of cultural difference, hybridity and diaspora. Such 'positioning' encouraged them to question categorical, stereotypical, and hierarchical constructions of culture. In the creation of a third space, they came to recognize the plurality of cultural meanings, thereby working against essentialist meaning-making in such an interstitial space. They also came to acknowledge the legitimacy of the meanings of the other as well as those of the self. This study addresses to the broader cultural debate within postcolonial studies and critical pedagogy by raising awareness of cultural diversity, identity and representations of self. In this way it offers an original contribution by exploring intersecting areas of theory, so far believed to be discrete: diasporic philosophy, post-colonialism and dialogism
关键词：Culture; Postcolonialism; Hybridity; Third Space; Diaspora; Dialogism
