The research of international topics and writing about cultural identity formations does not automatically equate to transnationalizing intercultural communication. Studies often perpetuate a hegemonic and U.S-centric way of doing research, and by default doing intercultural communication scholarship. Thus, intercultural communication and critical intercultural communication has not yet fully experienced a transnational turn. Instead, by considering the ideas of nation-state, nationality, and citizenship through theoretical frameworks that are developed by non-U.S-scholars and transnational scholars within U.S. academia, this book addresses the citationality politics present in the field.
While past studies of critical intercultural communication have been international in scope, with researchers from international backgrounds, their visibility and voice have remained limited in CIC. To achieve transnational inclusivity with CIC, we advocate for the use of critical and cultural multi-methods or fusion of them or incorporation of new hybrid methodologies to answer complex, multidimensional, intersectional, and transnational issues and represent those lives and stories.
Collectively, the authors in this book address different topics that help us further conceptualize transnational critical intercultural communication. They all call our attention to examining global cultural disparities, mediated transnationalities, and transnational oppressive cultural and political structures. Many chapters offer narrative-based writing or autoethnographic methods to unearth these issues and spotlight oppressive structures and inequalities. This book will be essential reading for scholars of CIC and those interested in how transnational cultural practices, regulations, expectations, and limitations continuously shape and reshape the lives of transnational individuals.
About the Author: Ahmet Atay (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale) is Professor of Global Media and Communication at the College of Wooster. His research focuses on diasporic experiences and cultural identity formations; political and social complexities of city life, such as immigrant and queer experiences; the usage of new media technologies in different settings; and the notion of home; representation of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in media; queer and immigrant experiences in cyberspace, and critical communication pedagogies. He is the author of Globalization's Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015) and the co-editor of several books. His scholarship appeared in a number of journals and edited books.
Shinsuke Eguchi (Ph.D., Howard University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. Their research interests focus on global and transcultural studies, queer of color critique, intersectionality and racialized gender politics, Asian/American studies, and performance studies. They are Author of Asians loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics (Peter Lang, 2022). Their recent solo-authored and co-authored work will appear or has appeared for publication in Communication, Culture, and Critique, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Review of Communication, Western Journal of Communication, Women's Studies in Communication, and Journal of Homosexuality. They are co-editor with Satoshi Toyosaki of Intercultural Communication in Japan (2017), coeditor with Bernadette Marie Calafell of Queer Intercultural Communication (2020), and coeditor with Bernadette Marie Calafell and Shadee Abdi of De-Whitening Intersectionality (2020). They are also book review editor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking.
Gloria Nziba Pindi (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University) is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at California, State University San Marcos (CSUSM). Her research interests focus on critical intercultural communication, Black/Transnational feminism, performance studies, and auto/ethnographic methods. She attempts to examine various parameters that impact the performance of the self in transnational contexts around issues of globalization, migration, and identity negotiation with a critical approach to social justice. Her work has been featured in Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, Review of Communication, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Women's Studies in Communication and Women & Language.
