{"title":"“So, it’s like you’re swimming against the tide”: Didactic avowals and parenting as intersectional Muslim women in the United States","authors":"Marwa I. Abdalla, Yea-Wen Chen","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2021.1896768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2021.1896768","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Muslim parents in the United States negotiate their intersecting identities and roles as parents amidst increasing (white) nationalism and anti-Muslim racism. In this qualitative study, we draw on cultural identity theory (CIT) to examine how sixteen cis-heterosexual/educated/able-bodied Muslim women parenting children in the United States make sense of their identity negotiations as individuals and parents. Our analysis identifies three overlapping themes highlighting struggles and resilience while parenting. We offer the concept of “didactic avowals” that describes contextually-contingent avowals aimed at instructing and disrupting hegemonic stereotypes and conclude by discussing the implications of these findings in light of CIT.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79632023","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":"Silence of a Pakistani Muslim woman: The influence of culture on the meaning of silence","authors":"Sakina Jangbar","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2021.1897153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2021.1897153","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Western feminist writers often associate voice with empowerment and treat silence as a manifestation of a woman’s powerlessness. Although the significance of voice cannot be minimized, the association of silence with victimization is flawed. This essay analyzes the silent appearance of Ghazala Khan, a Pakistani Muslim woman, at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Using post-colonial methodology, I argue that her silence was an expression of her agency rather than her powerlessness. My analysis focuses on Trump’s comments, Ghazala’s post-convention remarks, and Ghazala’s dupatta (light scarf). The impulse to essentialize silence can be checked by examining contextual information surrounding the silence.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90471292","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 role of intercultural virtual exchanges in global citizenship development","authors":"Chesla Ann Lenkaitis, Barbara Loranc-Paszylk","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2021.1876241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2021.1876241","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of Virtual Exchange (VE) on the development of global citizenship competences. One hundred and six participants from universities in Mexico, Poland, Spain, and the USA took part in a 6-week synchronous VE. Adapting Reysen, S., and Katzarska-Miller, I. (2013. A model of global citizenship: Antecedents and outcomes. International Journal of Psychology, 48(5), 858–870. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207594.2012.701749) survey, VE participants were asked to rate global citizenship and their approval for prosocial values and behaviours such as: intergroup empathy and valuing diversity. These results, along with qualitative analyses of open-ended questions, provided evidence of global citizenship development. This development illustrates how instructors could implement VE that could include tasks aiming at fostering global citizenship development.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75267957","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":"“What does a torture survivor look like?” Nonverbal communication in US asylum interviews and hearings","authors":"S. Bishop","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2021.1881146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2021.1881146","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper draws on asylum court hearing observations and oral history interviews with asylum seekers and governmental personnel to examine the impact of nonverbal communication and displays of emotion in asylum interviews and hearings in the United States. The narrators describe why nonverbal communication plays such a central role in the asylum process and, building on theoretical foundations from communication studies, the paper offers an in-depth illustration of the ways eye contact and movement in particular influence the interpretations of asylum seekers’ claims for protection.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76246764","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":"Does local news always dominate newspaper front-page news? A study of the Kuwait Times, 2017–2019","authors":"Uche Onyebadi, Mohamed A. Satti","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1869287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1869287","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Newspapers publish the most important stories on their front pages. In this study, the authors analyzed front-page news stories in the Kuwait Times, between 2017 and 2019, to determine whether local news was more prevalent than international stories or vice versa. The study also categorized and examined the front-page stories published in that period. Results show that the Kuwait Times published fewer local (31.7%) than international stories (68.3%). Stories about government and politics (46.8%) were most prominent. These findings contradict the expectation that newspapers generally publish more local than international stories. The caveat is that Kuwait’s expatriate population is about three times that of locals.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82314918","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":"Why most Chinese fans of American superhero movies are girls: A gendered local fandom of a global Hollywood icon","authors":"Xiwen Zhang","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1870709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1870709","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT American superhero movies are generally perceived as primarily targeted at a male audience. In China, however, females far outnumber males in the genre’s fan community. This phenomenon suggests that a popular text’s local negotiation can take on different paths when the text is consumed transnationally. To explore this process, this study examines how Chinese consumers of the Marvel franchise negotiate their gendered fandom in a global context. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 29 Chinese fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this study considers the power dynamics at work in the franchise’s global spread and local consumption.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72772089","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":"Crazy, rich, when Asian: Yellowface ambivalence and mockery in Crazy Rich Asians","authors":"Terrie Siang-Ting Wong","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1857426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1857426","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay takes a postcolonial approach to trouble the celebratory notion that Crazy Rich Asians is unequivocal progress for Asian/American media representation. Using textual analysis, the essay reads Asian subjectivities portrayed in the movie in the context of race relations in the United States, in Singapore, and between the United States and Asia. The essay concludes by discussing how yellowface mockery and ambivalence center whiteness in different ways for Asia-Asians and Asian Americans, and it argues for the continued relevance of yellowface theorizations for unpacking representations of Asian/American subjectivities in filmic texts that are produced by, for, and with Asians.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86432374","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":"Disaster communication ecology in multiethnic communities: Understanding disaster coping and community resilience from a communication resource approach","authors":"Wenlin Liu","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1854329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1854329","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The challenge for multiethnic communities to recover from disasters is well noted. Yet, research on which types of resources can help communities recuperate remains scarce. The current study explores how community-level communication resources—including interpersonal connections, local media storytelling, community-based organizations, and official emergency management communication—may function as a resource network for residents from diverse backgrounds to navigate the strenuous process of post-disaster recovery. Results based on a community survey confirm the positive link between disaster communication ecology and individuals’ disaster-coping outcomes. Findings further identify ethnicity-based divergence where certain communication resources play a more important role than others.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76860276","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":"Don’t say his name: The terror attacks in New Zealand and the ethics of White allyship","authors":"Haneen Ghabra","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1849773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1849773","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The author deploys a cultural critique that extends the work of White femininity and the application of the Intersectional nature of Whiteness to critiques of the reaction to the New Zealand terrorist attacks. The attacks invite audiences to consider how the ethics of Whiteness works intersectionally through masculinity, allyship and the nation state. By analyzing Jacinda Ardern’s speech to Parliament, the author aims to contribute to the understanding of how the rhetoric of Whiteness can be cloaked in allyship.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87661299","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":"Into the unknown [Amas Mu Vuordá]? Listening to Indigenous voices on the meanings of Disney’s Frozen 2 [Jikŋon 2]","authors":"Trine Kvidal-Røvik, Ashley Cordes","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1849774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1849774","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2019, Disney released the animated film Frozen 2 and included depictions of Indigenous Sámi peoples, landscapes, and lifeways. Communication scholars have critiqued relationships between Disney and Indigenous cultures. However, with Frozen 2 Sámi consultants initiated a new mode of collaboration with Disney to combat cultural appropriation, linguistic erasure, and misrepresentations. This resulted in almost unanimously positive media praise by Sámi individuals and communities in Scandinavia. By drawing upon an Indigenous listening methodology, we articulate ways Sámi communities discuss the degree to which Disney’s Frozen 2/Jikŋon 2 is a transformative agent (or not) in treatment of Indigenous communities in film.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75617509","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}