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"Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xix 1. Critical Intercultural Communication Studies: Formation: From Crossroads to Trajectories and Urgencies on Shifting Terrain 1 Rona Tamiko Halualani and Thomas K. Nakayama Part I Critical Junctures and Reflections in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies: Revisiting and Retracing 29 2. Writing the Intellectual History of Intercultural Communication 31 Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz 3. Intercultural Communication and Dialectics Revisited 41 Thomas K. Nakayama and Judith N. Martin 4. Critical Reflections on Culture and Critical Intercultural Communication 57 Dreama G. Moon 5. Reflections on ""Problematizing 'Nation' in Intercultural Communication Research"" 73 Kent A. Ono 6. ""A Transdisciplinary Turn in Critical Intercultural Communication"" 85 Ako Inuzuka 7. ""Other Bodies"" in Interaction: Queer Relationalities and Intercultural Communication 95 Gust A. Yep 8. Theorizing at the End of the World: Transforming Critical Intercultural Communication 109 S. Lily Mendoza Part II Critical Theoretical Dimensions in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 127 9. Culture as Text and Culture as Theory: Asiacentricity and Its Raison D’être in Intercultural Communication Research 129 Yoshitaka Miike 10. Fabricating Difference: Interculturality and the Politics of Language 151 Crispin Thurlow 11. Livin' la Vida Marimacha: Post Borderlands and Queerness in Starz's Vida 167 Bernadette Marie Calafell and Nivea Castaneda Acrey 12. The Hegemony of English and the Rise of Anti-globalism: Problems, Ideologies, and Solutions 177 Yukio Tsuda 13. On Terra Nullius and Texts: Settler Colonialism, Native Disappearance, and the Introductory Cultural Studies Reader 197 Aimee Carrillo Rowe 14. Studying AsiaPacifiQueer Communication: An Autoethnographic Critique of Japanese Queer Reimagining(s) of Hawai'i 211 Shinsuke Eguchi 15. Re-imagining Intercultural Communication Amid Multiple Pandemics 227 Kathryn Sorrells 16. Therapeutic Media Representations: Recreating and Contesting the Past in Poland 249 Jolanta A. Drzewiecka 17. A Call for Transformative Cultural Collaboration: Jewish Identity, the Race-religion Constellation, and Fighting Back Against White Nationalism 263 Miriam Shoshana Sobre 18. Decolonizing Theory and Research: Asiacentric Womanism as an Emancipatory Paradigm for Intercultural Communication Studies 277 Jing Yin 19. Why Do Citizens with Guns Fear Immigrants with Flags? Flag-waving and Differential Adaptation Theory 299 Antonio Tomas De La Garza and Kent A. Ono Part III Critical Inquiry Practices in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 315 20. Methodological Reexaminations: Decolonizing Autoethnography and New Pathways in Critical Intercultural Communication 317 Ahmet Atay 21. Embracing the Rigor of Critical Intercultural Communication Methods of Inquiry: Reflections on Seeing, Knowing, and Doing 327 Mark P. Orbe 22. A Sense of Healing: A Relational Meditation in Queer (and Trans) of Color Communism 337 Lore/tta LeMaster and Michael Tristano, Jr. 23. Doing Critical Intercultural Communication Work as Political Commitment: Lessons Learned from Ethnographic Methods 351 Gloria Nziba Pindi 24. Configuring a Post- and Decolonial Pedagogy: The Theory-method Conundrum 365 Devika Chawla 25. Critical Embodiment: Reflections on the Imperative of Praxis in the Four Seasons of Ethnography 375 Sarah Amira de la Garza 26. The Depths of the Coatlicue State: Mitos, Religious Poetics, and the Politics of Soul Murder in Queer of Color Critique 383 Robert Gutierrez-Perez 27. Culture Counts: Quantitative Approaches to Critical Intercultural Communication 395 Srividya Ramasubramanian, Julius Matthew Riles, and Omotayo O. Banjo 28. Culture-centered Method for Decolonization: Community Organizing to Dismantle Capitalist-colonial Organizing 407 Mohan Dutta Part IV Critical Topics in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 419 29. Homophobic Ghana? A Critical Intercultural Communication Intervention 421 Godfried Asante 30. Discussions of Race and Racism in Asian North American Pacific Islander's YouTube Videos: A Content Analysis 429 Kristin L. Drogos and Vincent N. Pham 31. Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy at a Crossroads: Espousing Commitments as Pedagogical Praxis 441 Yea-Wen Chen and Brandi Lawless 32. What's Cooking? Caste as the (Not So) Secret Ingredient of Indian American Identity 451 Santhosh Chandrashekar 33. The Aftermath of the Las Vegas Shooting: Engaging in Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy 459 Richie Neil Hao 34. Bridgerton: A Case Study in Critical Cultural Approaches to Racial Representations in Popular Culture 465 Tina M. Harris and Meghan S. Sanders 35. Unsettling Intercultural Communication: Settler Militarism and Indigenous Resistance from Oceania 473 Tiara R. Na'puti and Riley I. Taitingfong 36. Recovering the Dots of Social Injustice and Ecological Violence: A Case for Critical Intercultural Communication 483 Etsuko Kinefuchi 37. Navigating Undocumented Activism: Narratives, Positionality, and Immigration Politics 493 Josue David Cisneros and Ana Lisa Eberline 38. A Critical Intercultural View of War on Terror Militarism: The Case of the Production of Knowledge About Afghan Women in North America and Western Europe 503 Isra Ali 39. Reading a Letter for Black Lives Matter: A Cultural Studies Approach to Asian American Intercultural Communication 509 LeiLani Nishime and Elizabeth S. Parks 40. Interstitials: Post-pandemic Reflections on the Matrix of Access, Inclusion and Privilege 517 Priya Raman and Deanna L. Fassett 41. Sensing Race in the Time of COVID-19 527 Sachi Sekimoto 42. Intersectional Delights: White South African Diaspora in the US 535 Melissa Steyn and Cuthbeth Tagwirei Part V Critical Intercultural Communication Futures 551 43. Returning to (Neo)Normal: A Case Study in Critical Intercultural Health Communication 553 Kristen L. Cole, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, and Sarah De Los Santos Upton 44. The Intercultural Questions at the Center of a Critical Reclamation of the University 569 Kathleen F. McConnell 45. The Challenge of the 'More-than-human World': Toward an Ecological Turn in Intercultural Communication 577 S. Lily Mendoza and Etsuko Kinefuchi 46. Conclusion: Dynamic Challenges of Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 595 Thomas K. Nakayama and Rona Tamiko Halualani Index 599"
THOMAS K. NAKAYAMA is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. He is the founding Editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and co-founding Editor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. RONA TAMIKO HALUALANI is a Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University. She was formerly the Editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.
