Ecointerculturality
Communing with the More-than-Human World
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:21st Oct '26
£171.99
This title is due to be published on 21st October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Ecointerculturality introduces an original approach that brings the more-than-human world—nature, living beings, and Earth itself—into intercultural communication, education, and research (ICER), expanding the field with planetary consciousness and relational care.
At a time of ecological crisis and widespread disconnection, this transformative book invites readers into ecotranslanguaging, a relational and embodied practice of ecointerculturality. By communing with the more-than-human world through encounters with forests and fungi, grief and ceremony, buffalo and crow, ecotranslanguaging moves us beyond human-centered frameworks. It reimagines language, culture, and meaning as living, ecological practices. Grounded in Indigenous epistemologies and sacred feminine wisdom, this urgently needed work underscores the voices and knowledges of historically marginalized groups in ICER. It asks how we might learn to engage more responsibly in a shared world of interdependent relationships. Through an eclectic blend of theory, contemplative practice, autoethnography, and reflective exercises, Byrd humbly offers ways to remember language as an invitation to participate differently—to unlearn, return, and renew within a deeply interconnected world, not as a prescriptive method to implement.
Essential for scholars, educators, students, and practitioners of intercultural communication and education, this timely work illuminates pathways toward more mindful, reciprocal, and compassionate ways of relating to one another and to all life.
“Few books have moved me as deeply as Ecointerculturality. Julie S. Byrd reimagines interculturalities with remarkable authenticity and intellectual courage, inviting us to rethink our relationships with language, education, and the more-than-human world. Beautifully structured and enriched with reflective practices and activities, this is a book that will continue to shape both scholarship and practice long after the final page. It is an invitation to walk in wonder. A rare gift.”
Danièle Moore, Distinguished Professor of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada
“Julie Byrd’s outstanding book is essential to our times as she opens a doorwayand integrates insight, Indigenous voices, other ways of knowing, and new dimensions for the field. Her vibrant multi-layered modalities take us into somatic practices, debates, self-refection, historical and colonial discussions, songs, and stories. This exceptional book transforms all of us who care about the More-Than-Human world.”
Anne Z. Parker, PhD Professor Emerita in Ecopsychology and Environmental Studies, Naropa University, USA
“Rarely does a book open an entirely new intellectual horizon. Ecointerculturality is an invitation to listen differently—to language, to the Earth, and to our shared existence within a living, finite world. Byrd weaves scholarship, relationship, and wisdom into a transformative vision of (eco)interculturality that will resonate long after the final page. Intellectually ambitious and emotionally moving!”
Vander Tavares,Associate Professor of Education, University of Inland Norway
ISBN: 9781041427773
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238 pages