From Interculturality to Situations of Otherness.

Discussing interculturality and situations of otherness equally engages both the user and the institution in a balanced relationship where the "foreign" user can calmly embrace their otherness and where the institution accepts its responsibility to respond effectively. Such reflection calls for a reevaluation of the act of caring, educating, and supporting, acknowledging the inherent asymmetry in the relationship between a user—by definition, isolated—and an institution—also by definition, collective and powerful.

Author(s): TESSIER Stéphane

Publishing year: 2017

Pages: 13-14

Health in Action, 2017, n° 442, p. 13-14

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