The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication (Google eBook)

Thomas K. Nakayama, Rona Tamiko Halualani

John Wiley & Sons, Mar 21, 2011 - Social Science - 648 pages

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.

• A consolidated resource of works that highlights all aspects of this developing field, its historical inception, logics, terms, and possibilities
• Traces the significant historical developments in intercultural communication
• Helps students and scholars to revisit, assess, and reflect on the formation of critical intercultural communication studies
• Posits new directions for the field in terms of theorizing, knowledge production, and social justice engagement

Contents

• Critical Intercultural Communication Studies At a Crossroads: 1
• Critical Junctures and Reflections In Our Field A Revisiting: 17
• Writing the Intellectual History of Intercultural Communication: 21
• Critical Reflections on Culture and Critical Intercultural Communication: 34
• Reflecting Upon Enlarging Conceptual Boundaries A Critique of Research in Intercultural Communication: 53
• Intercultural Communication and Dialectics Revisited: 59
• Reflections on Problematizing Nation in Intercultural Communication Research: 84
• Reflections on Bridging Paradigms How Not to Throw Out the Baby of Collective Representation with the Functionalist Bathwater in Critical Intercult...: 98
• Revisiting the Borderlands of Critical Intercultural Communication: 112
• Expanding the Circumference of Intercultural Communication Study: 130
• Critical Dimensions in Intercultural Communication Studies: 147
• Internationalizing Critical Race Communication Studies Transnationality Space and Affect: 149
• Reimagining Intercultural Communication in the Context of Globalization: 171
• Culture as Text and Culture as Theory Asiacentricity and Its Raison Dêtre in Intercultural Communication Research: 190
• Entering the Inter Power Lines in Intercultural Communication: 216
• Speaking of Difference Language Inequality and Interculturality: 227
• Speaking Against the Hegemony of English Problems Ideologies and Solutions: 248
• Coculturation Toward A Critical Theoretical Framework of Cultural Adjustment: 270
• Public Memories in the Shadow of the Other Divided Memories and National Identity: 286
• Critical Intercultural Communication Remembrances of George Washington Williams and the Rediscovery of Léopold IIs Crimes Against Humanity: 311
• Critical Topics in Intercultural Communication Studies: 333
• Situating Gender in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies: 335
• Identity and Difference Race and the Necessity of the Discriminating Subject: 348
• Brother in the Classroom Testimony Reflection and Cultural Negotiation: 364
• When Frankness Goes Funky AfroProxemics Meets Western Polemics at the Border of the Suburb: 382
• Iterative Hesitancies and Latinidad The Reverberances of Raciality: 400
• We Got Game Race Masculinity and Civilization in Professional Team Sport: 417
• It Really Isnt About You Whiteness and the Dangers of Thinking You Got It: 446
• Critical Reflections on a Pedagogy of Ability: 461
• The Scarlet Letter Vigilantism and the Politics of Sadism: 472
• Authenticity and Identity in the Portable Homeland: 483
• Layers of Nikkei Japanese Diaspora and World War II: 495
• Placing South Asian Digital Diasporas in Second Life: 517
• The Creed of the White Kid A Dissapology: 534
• A Critical Reflection on an Intercultural Communication Workshop Mexicans and Taiwanese Working on the USMexico Border: 549
• Quit Whining and Tell Me About Your Experiences InTolerance Pragmatism and Muting in Intergroup Dialogue: 565
• A Proposal for Concerted Collaboration between Critical Scholars of Intercultural and Organizational Communication: 585
• Critical Visions of Intercultural Communication Studies: 593
• Conclusion Envisioning the Pathways of Critical Intercultural Communication Studies: 595

About the author

Thomas K. Nakayama is Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He is founding editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and has published widely in the areas of critical race and critical intercultural communication, including Intercultural Communication in Contexts, Fourth Edition (2007), Experiencing Intercultural Communication, Third Edition (2007) and Human Communication in Society, Second Edition (2010).

Rona Tamiko Halualani is Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication Studies at San Jose State University. Her research interests include the following: critical intercultural communication studies, intercultural contact, race/ethnicity; diversity, prejudice, identity and cultural politics, diasporic identity, and Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders. She is the author of In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics (2002).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication; Handbooks in Communication and Media
• Editors: Thomas K. Nakayama, Rona Tamiko Halualani
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
• ISBN: 1444390678, 9781444390674
• Length: 648 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies