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{"title":"“Good job, but Bulgarian”: Identifying “Bulgarian-ness” through cultural discourse analysis","authors":"Nadezhda Sotirova","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1760919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1760919","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT By using cultural discourse analysis and ethnography, naturally occurring talk and interviews were examined for local constructions of “Bulgarian-ness” in order to formulate explicit and implicit cultural propositions about being “Bulgarian,” and cultural premises about being (“Bulgarian-ness” as problematic) and emotion (anger, frustration) as connected. This article illustrates the notion of the phrase as a local cultural symbol within Bulgarian discourse that evokes deep cultural meanings for a way of being (“Bulgarian-ness” and the West/East dichotomy), emotions (frustration, hopelessness), and a social world (the “Bulgarian situation”) as continuously negotiated in relation to conceptualizations of “Balkanism.”","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87005040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On invitations and possibilities","authors":"B. Calafell","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1748881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1748881","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79528832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The subcontinent speaks: Intercultural communication perspectives from/on South Asia","authors":"S. Sastry, Srividya Ramasubramanian","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1745440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1745440","url":null,"abstract":"That this special issue has seen the light of day is primarily due to the vision of Todd Sandel, the outgoing editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, who readily identified the relative lack of visibility of South Asia focused intercultural communication research, suggested a special issue, and offered us total editorial discretion over the details. Thanks are also due, in equal part, to the many colleagues and peers who reviewed the articles that comprised this issue. We are proud to have had the opportunity to edit this special issue focused on intercultural research from/on South Asia. In the call for papers for this issue, we asked potential contributors to “showcase the multiple, contested and conflicting understandings around culture, identity, and power that inhabit the South Asian context.” One of our primary goals for this special issue is complicating and broadening the academic discourse on South Asia. This was a primary objective in selecting the articles that comprise this issue. As we explain below, the six articles respond to this call in important and intersecting ways. If critical intercultural studies in Communication refers to a set of practices that explore how “power, context, socio-economic relations, and historical/structural forces [constitute] and shape culture and intercultural encounters, relationships and contexts” (Halualani & Nakayama, 2013, p. 2), then the broad rationale of this issue is to crystallize these practices within the South Asian context. The point, of course, is not to engender some sort of fundamental South Asian exceptionalism, but to contemplate on how the abovementioned set of practices are manifest within that region. Here, we recognize that we stand on the shoulders of scholars before us – this move to de-parochialize the “inter” in intercultural communication has a long and storied history, and we recognize the work of the many scholars in our discipline that have allowed for the articulation of what we are attempting here. But first, a bit of context on terminology – the terms “Indian subcontinent” (or simply, “subcontinent”) and “South Asia” are often used interchangeably to refer to the region that corresponds to the nation-states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. However, the difference between the terms is worth pause – the Indian subcontinent is primarily a geological term (referencing the peninsula created from the collision between Indian and Asian tectonic plates in the Cenozoic era), while South Asia is used in a political sense to refer to the contemporary nationstates that comprise the region and the relationships among them – consider the multilateral South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, or SAARC, as an exemplar for this","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79081278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anti-media populism: Expressions of media distrust by right-wing media in India","authors":"P. Bhat, Kalyani Chadha","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1739320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1739320","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Criticism of mainstream media as being “biased” has emerged as a defining characteristic of right-wing discourse all over the world. Such expressions are coupled with the establishment of right-wing news outlets that seek to undermine professional journalism. But while scholars have examined the operation of such outlets in the context of Western democracies, anti-media populism in the Global South has received little scholarly attention. Through a thematic analysis of articles published on OpIndia.com- a right-wing news site in India, this paper seeks to address this gap in the literature and identify the discursive strategies employed by the right-wing media to discredit the mainstream press in India.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73855853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Negotiating the (im)mobility of domestic work: Communicative erasures, disrupted embodiments, and neoliberal Asia","authors":"Satveer Kaur-Gill, M. Dutta","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1739319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1739319","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Multiple communicative erasures are embedded in the labor practices of migrant domestic work. The parallel experiences of South Asian workers laboring in Noida (India) and Singapore as experiences of (im)mobilities and expulsions are discussed amid the construction and importation of the “The Singapore Model” across Asian cities. We specifically hear the voices of workers in Noida as scripts of the global margins that exist within neoliberal meccas. These storied realities of performing reproductive labor disrupt the celebration of neoliberal development in model cities for work and play. Domestic work continues to function in precarity with multiple layers of structural (im)mobilities.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79923475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Winning hearts and minds: A critical analysis of independent media development in Afghanistan","authors":"A. Hatef, Tanner R. Cooke","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1740764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1740764","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Utilizing a political economic framework, this study investigates the development and expansion of independent media in Afghanistan, focusing on one of the largest private media companies in the country, Moby Group. The company's approach to producing media is tied to its complex location as a translocal/transnational media entity. The company serves a unique population and navigates complex relationships locally and globally (operating in an emerging democratic state negotiating neoliberal market imperatives). This paper argues American-backed development of state-independent media and the rise of private companies such as Moby Group are part of larger geopolitical practices that further U.S. interests and the neoliberal agenda globally.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88806310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neoliberal values & queer/disability in Margarita with a Straw","authors":"Ryan A. D’Souza, J. Rauchberg","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1739318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1739318","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Margarita with a Straw is an Indian movie about a queer/disabled woman exploring her sexuality. The article uses textual analysis with a discursive formation approach to analyze how the protagonist’s queer/disabled identity is constituted vis-à-vis intimate partnerships alongside the promotion of neoliberal values. One relationship with an able-bodied white man takes place within a caregiving dynamic that challenges her independence. The other relationship with a disabled South Asian woman creates an interdependence that bifurcates their identities as disabled-and-queer. The article argues that the promotion of neoliberal values in the context of queer/disability is about independence from dependence on sociopolitical systems.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90231176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Subaltern voices and postcolonial schizophrenia: The political tensions of M.I.A.’s Kala","authors":"M. G. Durham","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1735487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1735487","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Banned from the U.S. during the “war on terror,” the British/Sri Lankan hip-hop artist M.I.A. responded by recording her 2007 album Kala in multiple locations throughout the global South, collating indigenous musical styles and unorthodox recording techniques. Via a critical/cultural analysis, this paper explores M.I.A.’s work on Kala as subaltern resistance mobilized by “differential movement,” particularly in its mode of production, which operated outside of, and in opposition to, institutional mechanisms designed to expunge or neutralize politically subversive art and artists. Yet M.I.A.’s musical sampling also surfaces conflicts between creative freedom and cultural appropriation, emblematizing “postcolonialist/postmodern schizophrenia” (Vályi, 2011. Remixing cultures: Bartók and Kodály in the age of indigenous cultural rights. In K. McLeod & R. Kuenzli (Eds.), Cutting across media: Appropriation art, interventionist collage, and copyright law (pp. 219–236). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.).","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78880814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stigma, agency, and motherhood: Exploring the performativity of dual mother–female sex workers identities in Kathmandu, Nepal","authors":"Iccha Basnyat","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1735486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1735486","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing upon the lived experiences of 35 female sex workers (FSW) in Kathmandu, Nepal, this article explores the performativity of sex work–mother dual identities. Performativity presents a way to rupture proscribed singular identities of being a sex worker and highlight agency through the act of expressing dual identities. Global South research has established a link between mothers’ vulnerability and the likelihood of sex work becoming the means of livelihood. Thematic analysis highlights performativity of the dual identities as well as highlighting agency of FSWs to navigate economic necessity, stigmatized societal conditions, gender inequalities, and motherhood through performativity of dual identities.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75049174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The influences of host and ethnic internet use on sociocultural and psychological adaptation among Chinese college students in the United States: Intercultural communication apprehension and uncertainty reduction as mediators","authors":"C. Hsu, Jun Chen","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1718739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1718739","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigated the influences of internet use on cross-cultural adaptation. One hundred and fifty-two Chinese students (N = 152) in the United States completed a battery of questionnaires. Results indicated that host internet use negatively predicted intercultural communication apprehension (ICA) and uncertainty, which in turn positively influenced sociocultural and psychological adaptation. ICA predicted sociocultural adaptation equally as uncertainty, but was a stronger factor explaining psychological adaptation. Ethnic internet use, however, was not related to cross-cultural adaptation. These findings suggest that the host internet helps newcomers adapt to a new culture by reducing their ICA and uncertainty levels.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83967761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}