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In the final chapter I bring together the key ideas explored in the book to argue that these professionals are dynamically engaged in continuously re-authoring themselves through their narratives, from one interaction to the next, including in conversation with me as researcher. Through their reflective narrative accounts they reveal languaging practices as enacted and embodied processes which are fundamental to who they understand themselves to be and how they see themselves in relation to others. This is not a static understanding of self and involves a transformative view of continuously becoming, as their ways of being and knowing, participating and belonging are always opening up to alternative horizons and possibilities in a world itself undergoing transformation. I argue that the intercultural professional is aspirational, ongoing and potentially available to all, not simply those who relocate to live and work.
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O’Neill, F. (2020). The Intercultural Professional: Rewriting the Self. In: The Intercultural Professional. Communicating in Professions and Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52531-6_7
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