Curating Intercultural Action: Agency between Epistemologies
Curating Intercultural Action: Agency between Epistemologies
Author(s): Pavel DrábekSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Epistemology, Communication studies, Sociology, Politics and society, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Social Theory
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: intercultural action; interaction; performance; agency; epistemology; dramaturgical translation; postcolonial theory; slow trading
Summary/Abstract: Sociological, cognitive as well as epistemological differences complicate and often limit or even block intercultural communication. This article theorizes concrete strategies of understanding and interacting across cultural divides, between “us” and “them,” and offers possible strategies of overcoming epistemological differences in curating intercultural action. Inherited traditions and human reason itself complicate the task due to prejudice, epistemic vigilance (Sperber and Mercier), mutual assumptions and other factors. Analysing concrete examples of successful and failed intercultural action, the article draws on sociological concepts of action (Habermas), cognitive science and evolutionary psychology (Dunbar’s concept of mentalisation), and theatre practice (dramaturgical translation). It offers a theory of intercultural action and concrete strategies of curating interactions, which give participants autonomy and agency.
Journal: Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture
- Issue Year: 35/2025
- Issue No: 70
- Page Range: 82-106
- Page Count: 25
- Language: English
