Decentring intercultural competence frameworks in the ecological turn

This paper considers the possibilities for re-thinking current intercultural communication frameworks for human-more than human relationships. Drawing on stories of nature-connection for wellbeing gathered from several diverse communities in a multicultural region of the UK, the article uses ethnographically-informed mediated discourse analysis to reflect on how we can learn from these stories a) as stories in themselves, b) in relation to the sophisticated work from across the globe on human-nature relationships, c) the implications for decentring the human in Intercultural Communication Studies; and d) the possibilities for re-designing the notion (and frameworks) of intercultural competence under an ecological turn.