Intercultural Dynamics (ID) brings together researchers who study the ways in which cultural encounters and exchanges inflect processes of collective identity formation.
Our research addresses a wide range of ways in which people, objects, and ideas circulate, and how communities are constructed, negotiated, and affirmed in such processes. These include, for example, the perception of regional identities (and their relation to the nation-state or diasporic communities), transnational networks focusing on activism, solidarity, and collaboration, and the politics of tourism and travel narratives. We are likewise committed to examining the role of diplomacy in mediating intercultural encounters, the effects of pandemics and other transnational crises, and the centrality of cultural memory in asserting collective identities across historical periods.
In doing so, ID aims to combine a wide range of theoretical perspectives that allow us to chart the patterns, templates, and repertoires that underlie interactions between different cultures, as well as analyse the politics of their representations.
