Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-7304-6 • Hardback • April 2012 • $142.00 • (£109.00)
978-0-7391-9073-9 • Paperback • December 2013 • $59.99 • (£46.00)
Nilanjana Bardhan is associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Mark P. Orbeis professor of communication and diversity in the School of Communication at Western Michigan University.
Introduction: Identity Research in Intercultural Communication
Part I. Identity Pedagogy, and Praxis
Chapter 1. Performative Pedagogy as a Pedagogy of Interruption: Difference and Hope
Chapter 2. Doing Intersectionality: Power, Privilege, and Identity in Political Activist Communities
Chapter 3. Understanding Identity through Dialogue: Paulo Freire and Intercultural Communication Pedagogy
Chapter 4. (Academic) Families of Choice: Queer Relationality, Mentoring, and Critical Communication Pedagogy
Part II.Identity and Home/Spaces
Chapter 5. Cultural Reentry: A Critical Review of Intercultural Communication Research
Chapter 6. Performing Home/Storying Selves: Home and/as Identity in Oral Histories of Refugees in India's Partition
Part III. Identity and the Global-Local Dialectic
Chapter 7. Landscaping the Rootless: Negotiating Cosmopolitan Identity in a Globalizing World
Chapter 8. Cultural Matter as Political Matter: A Preliminary Exploration from a Chinese Perspective
Chapter 9. Understanding Immigration and Communication Contextually and Interpersonally
Part IV.Identity and the Liminal
Chapter 10. Postcolonial Migrant Identities and the Case for Strategic Hybridity: Toward "Inter"cultural Bridgework
Chapter 11. Researching Biracial/Multiracial Identity Negotiation: Lessons from Diverse Contemporary U.S. Public Perceptions
Chapter 12. Rethinking Identities Within Globalization Through Chinese American Literature: Perspective: From Postcolonial to Intercultural
Chapter 13. (Re)Thinking Conceptualizations of Caribbean Immigrant Identity Performances: Implications for Intercultural Communication Research
Part V. Theorizing "Doing" Identity
Chapter 14. Navigating the Politics of Identity/Identities and Exploring the Promise of Critical Love
Chapter 15. (Un)Covering the Gay Interculturalist
Chapter 16. Praxis-Oriented Autoethnography: Performing Critical Selfhood
Identity Research in Intercultural Communication features an invaluable collection of qualitative, critical, and transnational scholarship that not only maps the landscape of cultural identity research but also offers new insights, tools, and directions for identity theorizing. This volume advances and broadens the important study of identity from an array of perspectives and—as a dedication to John T. Warren and his work—bridges identity research, performance, and critical communication pedagogy.
— Yea-Wen Chen, Associate Professor, School of Communication at San Diego State University
Identity has been a historically central guiding construct in intercultural communication studies across multiple perspectives. This edited volume does an excellent job of representing its rich history while engaging deeply and creatively with state-of-the-art issues in the study of identity. The contributions are from outstanding scholars, whose craft is transforming how we understand the performance of identity, culture, and difference in exciting new ways, and their treatment of identity in terms of dialogue, difference, liminality, intersectionality, and politics is going to provide further stimulus and energy to intercultural communication studies in general. I expect this volume to become a must-have addition to any intercultural communication scholar’s library.
— Shiv Ganesh, Massey University
• Winner, Best Co-Edited Book of the Year (2012-13) Award from the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association