{"title":"Working across languages/cultures in international and environmental communication fieldwork","authors":"P. Banerjee, Stacey K. Sowards","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1850844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1850844","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As environmental communication grows as an area of study, international and environmental justice issues increasingly need attention. Sustainability, climate change, habitat erosion, water access, and a number of other issues disproportionately affect rural and marginalized communities around the globe. For researchers working in and with such communities, the ethics of interviewing local and/or non-academic people requires much thought and consideration. One of the authors has worked in Indonesian and Spanish, and the other in Hindi, Nepali, and Bengali. Questions such as what voice means, in relationship to postcolonial/decolonial theories, are especially important. Furthermore, how such interviews are recorded, transcribed, and then translated also raise significant ethical considerations. This paper explores how environmental communication researchers might rethink approaches to ethnography and interviews across cultures, languages, and other aspects of difference.","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":"90741534","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":"Racialized im/possibilities: Intersectional queer-of-color critique on Japaneseness in Netflix’s Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!","authors":"Shinsuke Eguchi, Keisuke Kimura","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1829675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1829675","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay examines im/possibilities of Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! that represents the concept of Japaneseness. More precisely, this essay is concerned with how Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! reinserts U.S. exceptionalism while the Fab Five perform the makeovers of the four Japanese nominees (S1E1–S1E4). However, this essay also examines possibilities of Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! that transgress issues of gender, sexuality, and the body. In so doing, we orient an intersectional queer-of-color critique as our analytic to intervene the logic of American liberal capitalism that circulates the patriotic imaginaries of homonationalism in the historical continuum of globalization. The overall goal is to critique Queer Eye: We’re in Japan! that showcases im/possibilities of Japaneseness.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86669193","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":"Postcolonial interventions in intercultural communication knowledge: Meta-intercultural ontologies, decolonial knowledges and epistemological polylogue","authors":"Hamza R’boul","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1829676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1829676","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The dominant “Western” episteme in intercultural communication knowledge exemplifies the ascendancies and silences produced by modern science that grants credibility to northern “regimes of truth”. This paper makes a case for meta-intercultural ontologies as a frame of reference that is informed by the principles of post-colonial theory and intercultural philosophy. This orientation is underpinned by 1) the reconsideration of intercultural communication knowledge at the epistemological level to expand the horizons of knowledge production; 2) critique the historical Western hegemony over knowledge production and dissemination by examining the impact of power hierarchies and sociopolitical circumstances on academic practices.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77236382","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":"Refugee resettlement volunteers as (inter)cultural mediators?","authors":"Kirstie McAllum","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1653953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1653953","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Refugee resettlement organizations hope that, by acting as intercultural mediators who navigate multiple cultural perspectives and translate them for others, volunteers will foster reciprocal adaptation by refugees and host nationals. However, intercultural mediation is challenging when divergent cultural frameworks generate discomfort or misunderstanding. Based on interviews with refugee resettlement volunteers, this study documents how volunteers positioned themselves in their narratives of interactions with and about refugees and how they attributed authority about what constituted appropriate cultural practices. Analysis of the varied “self” positions that volunteers adopted reveals that even motivated, knowledgeable individuals who want to respect diversity may inadvertently hinder adaptation.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80630791","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":"Hong Kong's vehicles of democracy: The vernacular monumentality of buses during the Umbrella Revolution","authors":"A. Gilmore","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1646789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1646789","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution saw some of the city's busiest streets transformed into temporary sites of artistic expression and freedom. This essay explores the everyday items were turned into in-situ tools of protest – in particular, the subversive use of double-decker buses. I analyze how a number of double-decker buses were transformed from a form of moving rhetoric into static, vernacular monuments representing Hong Kong's history and serving as democratic billboards. Through the display of Hong Kong's present (mainlandization), past (colonization), and future (democracy), the city's protesters were, I suggest, able to communicate their fears about the increasing effects of mainlandization in an attempt to shift Hong Kong's political possibilities.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88850289","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":"Music listening and cultural adaptation: How different languages of songs affect Chinese international students’ uses of music and cultural adaptation in the United States","authors":"Fei Jia, E. Koku","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1618893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1618893","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates music listening of Chinese international students and examines: (1) how listening to music in different languages (English or Chinese) affects Chinese international students’ uses of music, and (2) whether listening to music in a different language (English or Chinese) predicts their cultural adaptation to host culture. Using a self-reported survey, the study found that Chinese international students listened to more English songs than Chinese songs in the US. Listening to English songs more often in the US is also related to higher uses of music for identity, and higher rates on cultural adaptation; whereas listening to Chinese songs more often predicts higher uses of music for negative mood management. The results indicate the important role of the languages of song in the functions of listening to music and suggest the potential of English songs in helping Chinese international students better adapt American culture during their enculturation process.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86241172","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":"Acculturation, pluralism, empowerment: Cultural images as strategic communication on Hispanic nonprofit websites","authors":"Melissa B. Adams, Melissa A. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1627483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1627483","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This quantitative visual content analysis investigated the use of acculturation, pluralism, empowerment, and resistance-themed messages and images in nonprofit strategic communication and digital intercultural communication. The study analyzed data from 135 U.S.-based Latino nonprofit websites. Based on study findings, the authors argue that these nonprofits may be missing opportunities to strengthen relationships and cultural ties with target publics. This analysis applies acculturation theory to visual communication and extends the literature on digital intercultural public relations.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91077718","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":"Ethnically Chinese and culturally American: Exploring bicultural identity negotiation and co-cultural communication of Chinese-American female adoptees","authors":"Maya Blair, Meina Liu","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2019.1649710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1649710","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While many studies on international/interracial adoptees were conducted quantitatively with adoptees, or by various research methods from the perspective of adoptive parents, this study seeks to gain an in-depth understanding of how Chinese born, American adopted individuals perceive, make sense of, and negotiate their bicultural identities as they transition into adulthood by exploring the narratives of 10 such women. Grounded in the interpretive paradigm and framed by co-cultural communication theory, our findings not only illustrate the diversity of communication strategies used by these women to negotiate their multifaceted identities while navigating through various situational contexts and life stages, but also unveil the perceived role of adoptive parents in shaping their identity (re)construction. The numerous instances of contradiction throughout each woman’s retrospective sense-making reveals the ambivalences, vulnerabilities, nuanced complexities, and ongoing negotiations that they must engage in as a uniquely positioned co-cultural group.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88538312","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":"Multicultural integration in Germany: Race, religion, and the Mesut Özil controversy","authors":"Mia Fischer, K. Mohrman","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1782453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1782453","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article scrutinizes shifts in media coverage of soccer player Mesut Özil during the 2018 World Cup and his subsequent resignation from the German national team. Our analysis highlights the dominance of a multicultural integration discourse that connotes a particularly German understanding of multicultural diversity as only valuable when it is subordinate to an individual’s integration into German culture. Multicultural integration implicitly constructs Germanness as white through dubious claims of the “civilizational superiority” of Western/Christian secularism and a rejection of non-Western/Islamic religiosity as fundamentally “inferior” or “un-democratic.” The shifting treatment of Özil from an exemplar of multicultural integration to a symbol of its failure illustrates the underlying racialized-religious foundation of the discourse and Germany’s remaining attachments to whiteness vis-à-vis Christianity.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85875703","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":"Media literacy as liberator: Black audiences’ adoption of media literacy, news media consumption, and perceptions of self and group members","authors":"David Stamps","doi":"10.1080/17513057.2020.1789692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1789692","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Robust literature identifies news media’s sordid history of presenting disparaging depictions of Black identity and its subsequent influence on non-Black audiences. However, research addressing Black viewers, their varied group identities, and protective factors that minimize this influence, has received limited attention. Accordingly, this study examines the relationship between Black individuals’ political identities, news media consumption, critical media literacy skills, and their collective influence on audiences’ self and group esteem as well as news media’s perceptions of the group. Results posit a favorable relationship between variables, specifically, consumption of news media, increased media literacy, and Black viewers’ esteem.","PeriodicalId":45717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84123346","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}