<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hej,</div><div><br></div><div>här info om ny bok från Transaction Publishers i vilken flera av HF-s ämnen och forskare är representerade: </div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><b><span lang="SV" style="color: rgb(36, 93, 105); ">Transforming Otherness, by Jason Finch and Peter Nynas (eds.) </span></b></p></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.transactionpub.com/title/Transforming-Otherness-978-1-4128-1496-6.html">http://www.transactionpub.com/title/Transforming-Otherness-978-1-4128-1496-6.html</a></div><div><b><span lang="SV" style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:SV"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="SV" style="mso-bidi-font-size:21.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:#245D69;mso-ansi-language:SV">Description<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:14.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="SV" style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:SV">Today, people in different
situations and contexts face intercultural challenges. These are a result of
increasing mobility. Sometimes such challenges are brought about by crisis
situations and an international labor market. However, people also come in
contact with each other through forms of new technology such as the Internet,
and through literature and film. In these multicultural encounters,
misunderstandings and sometimes clashes are experienced. This volume presents
studies in culture, communication, and language, all of which strive, through a
variety of theoretical perspectives, to develop understanding of such
challenges and perhaps offer practical solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:14.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="SV" style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:SV">Encountering otherness may
evoke fears, negative attitudes, and a corresponding will to dismiss the
otherness in front of us—either consciously or unconsciously. This denial of
otherness may also be subtle. Thinking about otherness, as described in this
volume, also raises questions about how otherness is represented and mediated
and about the possible role of third parties in facilitating communication in
such situations. Sometimes a third party can play a crucial role in
facilitating the communication process and serve as a channel of communication.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:14.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="SV" style="mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:SV">Trust in humanity as a bridge
to community requires a subtle balance between representations of self and
other. Various problems arise in intercultural mediation, which may be caused
by cultural and political differences, and these are sometimes used to validate
stereotypical beliefs and images. The editors argue that in both academic and
art circles, European perspectives have widely been understood as universal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div><div><br></div><div>Mvh Peter Nynäs</div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">__________</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>Professor <div>Department of Comparative Religion<br>Project leader, Åbo Akademi Centre of Excellence in Research</div><div><a href="http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/relvet/pccr/index.html">http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/relvet/pccr/index.html</a><br><br></div></div></span></div></div>
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