Identity Research and Communication: Intercultural Reflections and Future Directions - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739190733 ISBN 13: 9780739190739

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2013

Synopsis

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, educators, students, and intercultural consultants and trainers.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

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. (Dr. 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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0739190733
• ISBN 13: 9780739190739
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Bardhan Nilanjana, Orbe Mark P.