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Undergraduate students of intercultural communication.
Contents
Chapter 1CommunicationDefinitions of CultureStudying Intercultural CommunicationIntercultural Praxis in the Context of GlobalizationSummaryKey TermsDiscussion Questions and ActivitiesReferencesChapter 2: Understanding the Context of GlobalizationThe Role of History in Intercultural CommunicationThe Role of Power in Intercultural CommunicationIntercultural Communication in the Context of GlobalizationIntercultural Dimensions of Economic GlobalizationIntercultural Dimensions of Political GlobalizationIntercultural Dimensions of Cultural GlobalizationSummaryKey TermsDiscussion Questions and ActivitiesReferencesChapter 3: Globalizing Body Politics: Embodied Verbal and Nonverbal CommunicationHip Hop CultureConstructing Social Worlds Through CommunicationMarking Difference Through CommunicationThe Social Construction of Race: From Colonization to GlobalizationResignifying Race in the Context of GlobalizationHip Hop Culture: Alternative Performances of DifferenceSummaryKey TermsDiscussion Questions and ActivitiesReferencesChapter 4: (Dis)Placing Culture and Cultural Space: Locations of Nonverbal and Verbal CommunicationPlacing Culture and Cultural SpaceDisplacing Culture and Cultural SpaceCase Study: Hip Hop CultureCultural Space, Power, and CommunicationSummaryKey TermsDiscussion Questions and ActivitiesReferencesChapter 5: Privileging Relationships: Intercultural Communication in Interpersonal ContextsTopography of Intercultural RelationshipsIntercultural Relationships in the WorkplaceForming and Sustaining Intercultural RelationshipsCyberspace and Intercultural RelationshipsIntercultural Alliances for Social Justice in the Global ContextSummaryKey TermsDiscussion Questions and ActivitiesReferencesChapter 6: Crossing Borders: Migration and Intercultural AdaptationMigrantsHistorical Overview of World MigrationMigration Trends in the Context of GlobalizationTheories of Migration and Intercultural AdaptationCase Studies: Migration and Intercultural AdaptationSummaryKey TermsDiscussion Questions and ActivitiesReferencesChapter 7: Jamming Media and Popular Culture: Analyzing Messages About Diverse CulturesMedia, Popular Culture, and GlobalizationPopular Culture, Intercultural Communication, and GlobalizationGlobal and Regional Media CircuitsProducing and Consuming Popular CulturePopular Culture, Representation, and ResistanceResisting and Re-Creating Media and Popular CultureSummaryKey TermsDiscussion Questions and ActivitiesReferencesChapter 8: The Culture of Capitalism and the Business of Intercultural CommunicationHistorical Context: Capitalism and GlobalizationThe Culture of CapitalismThe Intercultural MarketplaceCase Study 1: Consuming and Romanticizing the "Other"Case Study 2: Consuming and Desiring the "Other"Case Study 3: Consuming Cultural SpectaclesEconomic Responsibility and Intercultural CommunicationSummaryKey TermsDiscussion Questions and ActivitiesReferencesChapter 9: Negotiating Intercultural Conflict and Social Justice: Strategies for Intercultural RelationsIntercultural Conflict: A Multidimensional Framework of AnalysisCase Study 1: Interpersonal ContextCase Study 2: Intergroup ContextCase Study 3: International and Global ContextStrategies for Addressing Intercultural ConflictSummaryKey TermsDiscussion Questions and ActivitiesReferencesChapter 10: Engaging Intercultural Communication for Social Justice: Challenges and Possibilities for Global CitizenshipBecoming Global Citizens in the 21st Century"Hope in the Dark": From Apathy to EmpowermentIntercultural Alliances for Social JusticeCase Study: Community Coalition of South Los AngelesSummaryKey TermsDiscussion Questions and ActivitiesReferences
