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Informationen zum Autor Nilanjana Bardhan is associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Mark P. Orbe is professor of communication and diversity in the School of Communication at Western Michigan University. Klappentext The concept of identity has steadily emerged in importance in the field of intercultural communication, especially over the last two decades. In a transnational world marked by complex connectivity as well as enduring differences and power inequities, it is imperative to understand and continuously theorize how we perceive the self in relation to the cultural other. Such understandings play a central role in how we negotiate relationships, build alliances, promote peace, and strive for social justice across cultural differences in various contexts. Identity Research in Intercultural Communication, edited by Nilanjana Bardhan and Mark P. Orbe, is unique in scope because it brings together a vast range of positions on identity scholarship under one umbrella. It tracks the state of identity research in the field and includes cutting-edge theoretical essays (some supported by empirical data), and queries what kinds of theoretical, methodological, praxiological and pedagogical boundaries researchers should be pushing in the future. This collection's primary and qualitative focus is on more recent concepts related to identity that have emerged in scholarship such as power, privilege, intersectionality, critical selfhood, hybridity, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, queer theory, globalization and transnationalism, immigration, gendered and sexual politics, self-reflexivity, positionality, agency, ethics, dialogue and dialectics, and more. The essays are critical/interpretive, postmodern, postcolonial and performative in perspective, and they strike a balance between U.S. and transnational views on identity. This volume is an essential text for scholars, educators, students, and intercultural consultants and trainers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Identity Research in Intercultural CommunicationPart I. Identity Pedagogy, and PraxisChapter 1. Performative Pedagogy as a Pedagogy of Interruption: Difference and Hope Chapter 2. Doing Intersectionality: Power, Privilege, and Identity in Political Activist CommunitiesChapter 3. Understanding Identity through Dialogue: Paulo Freire and Intercultural Communication PedagogyChapter 4. (Academic) Families of Choice: Queer Relationality, Mentoring, and Critical Communication PedagogyPart II.Identity and Home/SpacesChapter 5. Cultural Reentry: A Critical Review of Intercultural Communication ResearchChapter 6. Performing Home/Storying Selves: Home and/as Identity in Oral Histories of Refugees in India's PartitionPart III. Identity and the Global-Local DialecticChapter 7. Landscaping the Rootless: Negotiating Cosmopolitan Identity in a Globalizing WorldChapter 8. Cultural Matter as Political Matter: A Preliminary Exploration from a Chinese PerspectiveChapter 9. Understanding Immigration and Communication Contextually and InterpersonallyPart IV.Identity and the LiminalChapter 10. Postcolonial Migrant Identities and the Case for Strategic Hybridity: Toward "Inter"cultural BridgeworkChapter 11. Researching Biracial/Multiracial Identity Negotiation: Lessons from Diverse Contemporary U.S. Public PerceptionsChapter 12. Rethinking Identities Within Globalization Through Chinese American Literature: Perspective: From Postcolonial to InterculturalChapter 13. (Re)Thinking Conceptualizations of Caribbean Immigrant Identity Performances: Implications for Intercultural Communication ResearchPart V. Theorizing "Doing" IdentityChapter 14. Navigating the Politics of Identity/Identities and Exploring the Promise of Critical LoveChapter 15. (Un)Covering the Gay InterculturalistChapter 16. Praxis-Oriented Autoethnography: Performing Critical Selfhood...
