Resistance to the Known

Introduction: Conceptualizing 'the Known' and the Relational Dynamics of Power and Resistance; Damian J. Rivers PART I: COUNTERING MICRO-PROCESSES IN LOCAL CONTEXTS 1. Language-Learner Tourists in Australia: Problematizing 'the Known' and its Impact on Interculturality; Phiona Stanley 2. A Greek Tragedy: Understanding and Challenging 'the Known' From a Complexity Perspective; Achilleas Kostoulas 3. Symbolic Violence and Pedagogical Abuse in the Language Classroom; Jacqueline Widin 4. The Authorities of Autonomy and English Only: Serving Whose Interests?; Damian J. Rivers PART II: COUNTERING MACRO-PROCESSES IN NATIONAL CONTEXTS 5. On the Challenge of Teaching English in Latin America with Special Emphasis on Brazil; Kanavillil Rajagopalan 6. Dialogizing 'the Known': Experience of English Teaching in Japan Through an Assay of Derivatives as a Dominant Motif; Glenn Toh 7. The Impossibility of Defining and Measuring Intercultural Competencies; Karin Zotzmann 8. Transcending Language Subject Boundaries Through Language Teacher Education; Suzanne Burley and Cathy Pomphrey 9. English-as-Panacea: Untangling Ideology from Experience in Compulsory English Education in Japan; Julian Pigott Epilogue ?