The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication

by Nakayama, Thomas K.; Halualani, Rona Tamiko

• ISBN13: 9781405184076
• ISBN10: 1405184078
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication aims to furnish scholars with a consolidated resource of works that highlights all aspects of the field, its historical inception, logics, terms, and possibilities.

Author Biography

Rona Tamiko Halualani is Associate professor in Department of Communication Studies at San Jose State University. She is the author of In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics (U Minn 2002) and publishes widely on issues of intercultural contact, race relations, and diversity. In 2005, Dr. Halualani was selected as a 2005-06 Carnegie Scholar by the prestigious Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (located at Stanford University).

Thomas K. Nakayamais currently professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and founding director of Asian Pacific American Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous books and is currently the editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Intercultural Research, a former Fulbrighter at the Université de Mons-Hainaut in Belgium, Libra Professor at the University of Maine, and he served on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Humanities Council.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Critical Intercultural Communication Studies: At a Crossroads

Critical Junctures and Reflections In Our Field: A Revisiting

Writing the Intellectual History of Intercultural Communication

Critical Reflections on Culture and Critical Intercultural Communication

Reflecting Upon "Enlarging Conceptual Boundaries: A Critique of Research in Intercultural Communication"

Intercultural Communication Dialectics Revisited

Reflections on "Problematizing 'Nation' in Intercultural Communication Research"

Reflections on "Bridging Paradigms: How Not to Throw Out the Baby of Collective Representation with the Functionalist Bathwater in Critical Intercultural Communication"

Revisiting the Borderlands of Critical Intercultural Communication

Expanding the Circumference of Intercultural Communication Study

Critical Dimensions in Intercultural Communication Studies

Internationalizing Critical Race Communication Studies: Transnationality, Space, and Affect

Re-imagining Intercultural Communication in the Context of Globalization

Culture as Text and Culture as Theory: Asiacentricity and Its Raison D'être in Intercultural Communication Research

Entering the Inter: Power Lines in Intercultural Communication

Speaking of Difference: Language, Inequality and Interculturality

Speaking Against the Hegemony of English: Problems Ideologies, and Solutions

Coculturation: Toward A Critical Theoretical Framework of Cultural Adjustment

Public Memories in the Shadow of the Other: Divided Memories and National Identity

Critical Intercultural Communication, Remembrances of George Washington Williams, and the Rediscovery of Léopold II's "Crimes Against Humanity"

Critical Topics in Intercultural Communication Studies

Situating Gender in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies

Identity and Difference: Race and the Necessity of the Discriminating Subject

Br(other) in the Classroom: Testimony, Reflection, and Cultural Negotiation

When Frankness Goes Funky: Afro-Proxemics Meets Western Polemics at the Border of the Suburb

Iterative Hesitancies and Latinidad: The Reverberances of Raciality

We Got Game: Race, Masculinity, and Civilization in Professional Team Sport

It Really Isn't About You: Whiteness and the Dangers of Thinking You Got It

Critical Reflections on a Pedagogy of Ability

The Scarlet Letter, Vigilantism, and the Politics of Sadism

Authenticity and Identity in the Portable Homeland

Layers of Nikkei: Japanese Diaspora and World War II

Placing South Asian Digital Diasporas in Second life

"The Creed of the White Kid": A Diss-apology

A Critical Reflection on an Intercultural Communication Workshop: Mexicans and Taiwanese Working on the US-Mexico Border

"Quit Whining and Tell Me About Your Experiences!": (In)Tolerance, Pragmatism, and Muting in Intergroup Dialogue

A Proposal for Concerted Collaboration between Critical Scholars of Intercultural and Organizational Communication

Critical Visions of Intercultural Communication Studies

Conclusion: Envisioning the Pathway(s) of Critical Intercultural Communication Studies

Index

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