{"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":"1 1","pages":"130 - 150"},"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":"36 1","pages":"114 - 129"},"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":"5 1","pages":"183 - 196"},"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":"28 5 1","pages":"151 - 165"},"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":"23 1","pages":"113 - 98"},"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":"67 1","pages":"60 - 75"},"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}
{"title":"Understanding friendship formation between international and host-national students in a Canadian university","authors":"Oral I. Robinson, Kara Somerville, S. Walsworth","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1609067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1609067","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Canada is known for its multiculturalism and is a major receiving country for international students. The successful integration of international students relies to some extent on positive social interaction and friendship formation with host-national students, which has been linked to a variety of positive outcomes. Nevertheless, consistent with existing research, we discover that international students develop their closest friendships with co-nationals and other international students. Based on survey responses and in-depth interviews with international students at one Canadian university, this study explains why international students are not taking advantage of opportunities to form friendships with host-national students, and/or why the friendship opportunities available are inadequate for deep friendship formation. Students’ responses might best be explained in terms of a cost/benefit analysis. Although interaction opportunities at Canadian universities exist, interaction constraints that are seen as costly to international students reinforce cultural boundaries and create barriers to intercultural friendship formations.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"92 1","pages":"49 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85859688","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":"How gay men’s wives in China practice co-cultural communication: Culture, identity, and sensemaking","authors":"Lu Tang, C. Meadows, Hongmei Li","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1569252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1569252","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Around 13.6 million heterosexual women in China are married to gay or bisexual men, and they call themselves tongqi. Tongqi belong to both co-cultural groups (as women and wives) and a dominant group (as heterosexuals). Through a narrative analysis of 51 stories told by tongqi, this study examines the co-cultural strategies tongqi use, and identifies two novel co-cultural strategies: self-blaming and enduring. It also examines how tongqi narratively construct their husbands’ co-cultural strategies and finds that tongqi often internalize the ideologies (of gender, sexual orientation, marriage, and family) in their sensemaking process and in their communicative responses to their husbands.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"5 1","pages":"13 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76390210","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":"Korean TV drama viewership on Netflix: Transcultural affection, romance, and identities","authors":"Hyejung Ju","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1606269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1606269","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examined the consumption of Korean television drama by US viewers of Netflix. Specifically, it analyzed Korean drama reviews in Netflix and found that these viewers engaged with Korean dramas by emphasizing affective consumption that tied to identifying the substance of love themes. These viewers showed a high degree of emotional involvement in portrayed romantic feelings as well as characters’ interactions, and closely related their personal lives and minds to the narrative. This wide range of affective consumption let them experience pleasure over the interplay of race, gender, and class identities, as they localized narratives signified by these dramas.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"42 1","pages":"32 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81070456","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}
S. Croucher, S. Kelly, Diyako Rahmani, Mark L. Burkey, Talgat Subanaliev, Flora Galy-Badenas, A. L. Lando, M. Chibita, Venantie Nyiransabimana, E. Turdubaeva, Nadirabegim Eskiçorapçı, K. Jackson
{"title":"A multi-national validity analysis of the self-perceived communication competence scale","authors":"S. Croucher, S. Kelly, Diyako Rahmani, Mark L. Burkey, Talgat Subanaliev, Flora Galy-Badenas, A. L. Lando, M. Chibita, Venantie Nyiransabimana, E. Turdubaeva, Nadirabegim Eskiçorapçı, K. Jackson","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1569250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1569250","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The self-perceived communication competence (SPCC) measure has been used in over 50 published studies since 2000. McCroskey and McCroskey (1988. Self-report as an approach to measuring communication competence. Communication Research Reports, 5, 108–113. doi: 10.1080/08824098809359810) developed the measure to be used within the US college/university classroom. Despite its intended use, the measure is frequently used outside of the US and outside of the college/university setting without tests of measurement invariance. In fact, only four studies have performed tests of internal consistency on the measure since 2000, and each has found poor fit. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the utility of the measure outside of its intended population. The measure was utilized to survey respondents from 12 countries and failed to yield acceptable fit statistics in all samples, showing poor evidence of construct validity.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":"62 1","pages":"1 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86897669","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}