Identity research and communication : intercultural reflections and future directions / edited by Nilanjana Bardhan and Mark P. Orbe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bardhan, Nilanjana.

Orbe, Mark P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

Group identity.

Intercultural communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 within intercultural communication under one umbrella. It tracks the state of identity research in the field and includes cutting-edge theoretical essays, and queries what kinds of theoretical, methodological, praxiological, and pedagogical boundaries researchers should be pushing in the future. This volume is an essential text for scholars, educ

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; I: Identity, Pedagogy, and Praxis; Chapter One: Performative Pedagogy as a Pedagogy of Interruption; Chapter Two: Doing Intersectionality; Chapter Three: Understanding Identity Through Dialogue; Chapter Four: (Academic) Families of Choice; II: Identity and Home/Spaces; Chapter Five: Cultural Reentry; Chapter Six: Performing Home/Storying Selves; III: Identity and the Global-Local Dialectic; Chapter Seven: Landscaping the Rootless; Chapter Eight: Cultural Matter as Political Matter

Chapter Nine: Understanding Immigration and Communication Contextually and InterpersonallyIV: Identity and the Liminal; Chapter Ten: Postcolonial Migrant Identities and the Case for Strategic Hybridity; Chapter Eleven: Researching Biracial/Multiracial Identity Negotiation; Chapter Twelve: Rethinking Identities Within Globalization Through Chinese American Literature; Chapter Thirteen: (Re)Thinking Conceptualizations of Caribbean Immigrant Identity Performances; V: Theorizing "Doing" Identity

Chapter Fourteen: Navigating the Politics of Identity/Identities and Exploring the Promise of Critical LoveChapter Fifteen: (Un)covering the Gay Interculturalist; Chapter Sixteen: Praxis-Oriented Autoethnography; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 8, 2013).

ISBN:

979-82-16-31064-8

0-7391-9073-3

0-7391-7305-7

OCLC:

851972213