Kathryn Sorrells 
Intercultural Communication [PDF ebook] 
Globalization and Social Justice

Winner of the 2022 Textbook Excellence Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)


Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice introduces students to the study of communication among cultures within the broader context of globalization. Author Kathryn Sorrells highlights history, power, and global institutions as central to understanding the relationships and contexts that shape intercultural communication. Promoting critical thinking, reflection, and action, the text’s social justice approach equips students with the knowledge and skills to create a more equitable world through communication. The
Third Edition includes new case studies, updated examples and statistics, and expanded discussions on timely topics, like the rise of ethnonationalism and white nationalism, and the impact of new media on global communication.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1: Opening the Conversation: Studying Intercultural Communication

Definitions of Culture

Studying Intercultural Communication

Intercultural Praxis in the Context of Globalization

Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions and Activities

Chapter 2: Understanding the Context of Globalization

The Role of History in Intercultural Communication

The Role of Power in Intercultural Communication

Intercultural Communication in the Context of Globalization

Intercultural Dimensions of Economic Globalization

Intercultural Dimensions of Political Globalization

Intercultural Dimensions of Cultural Globalization

Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions and Activities

Chapter 3: Globalizing Body Politics: Embodied Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

Hip Hop Culture

Constructing Social Worlds Through Communication

Marking Difference Through Communication

The Social Construction of Race: From Colonization to Globalization

Resignifying Race in the Context of Globalization

Hip Hop Culture: Alternative Performances of Difference

Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions and Activities

Chapter 4: (Dis)Placing Culture and Cultural Space: Locations of Nonverbal and Verbal Communication

Placing Culture and Cultural Space

Displacing Culture and Cultural Space

Case Study: Hip Hop Culture

Cultural Space, Power, and Communication

Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions and Activities

Chapter 5: Privileging Relationships: Intercultural Communication in Interpersonal Contexts

Topography of Intercultural Relationships

Intercultural Relationships in the Workplace

Forming and Sustaining Intercultural Relationships

Cyberspace and Intercultural Relationships

Intercultural Alliances for Social Justice in the Global Context

Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions and Activities

Chapter 6: Crossing Borders: Migration and Intercultural Adaptation

Migrants

Historical Overview of World Migration

Migration Trends in the Context of Globalization

Theories of Migration and Intercultural Adaptation

Case Studies: Migration and Intercultural Adaptation

Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions and Activities

Chapter 7: Jamming Media and Popular Culture: Analyzing Messages About Diverse Cultures

Media, Popular Culture, and Globalization

Popular Culture, Intercultural Communication, and Globalization

Global and Regional Media Circuits

Producing and Consuming Popular Culture

Popular Culture, Representation, and Resistance

Resisting and Re-Creating Media and Popular Culture

Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions and Activities

Chapter 8: The Culture of Capitalism and the Business of Intercultural Communication

Historical Context: Capitalism and Globalization

The Culture of Capitalism

The Intercultural Marketplace

Case Study 1: Consuming and Romanticizing the “Other”

Case Study 2: Consuming and Desiring the “Other”

Case Study 3: Consuming Cultural Spectacles

Economic Responsibility and Intercultural Communication

Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions and Activities

Chapter 9: Negotiating Intercultural Conflict and Social Justice: Strategies for Intercultural Relations

Intercultural Conflict: A Multidimensional Framework of Analysis

Case Study 1: Interpersonal Context

Case Study 2: Intergroup Context

Case Study 3: International and Global Context

Strategies for Addressing Intercultural Conflict

Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions and Activities

Chapter 10: Engaging Intercultural Communication for Social Justice: Challenges and Possibilities for Global Citizenship

Becoming Global Citizens in the 21st Century

“Hope in the Dark”: From Despair to Empowerment

Intercultural Alliances for Social Justice

Case Study: Community Coalition of South Los Angeles

Summary

Key Terms

Discussion Questions and Activities

Glossary

References

Index

Om författaren

Kathryn Sorrells is Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and is currently serving as Department Chair. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in intercultural communication, critical pedagogy, performance, cultural studies, and feminist theory. She combines critical/cultural studies and postcolonial perspectives to explore issues of culture, race, gender, class, and sexuality. Kathryn grew up in Georgia; has lived in different regions of the United States; has studied and worked in Brazil, Japan, Turkey and China; and has traveled extensively in Asia, Europe, and parts of Latin America. The critical, social justice approach she uses to study and practice intercultural communication is informed by her experiences growing up in the South during the tumultuous and transformative civil rights movement and her subsequent participation in the antiwar; women’s; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT); and labor and immigrant rights movements. Kathryn has published a variety of articles related to intercultural communication, globalization, and social justice and is co-editor along with Sachi Sekimoto of Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader (Sage, 2015). She has been instrumental in organizing a campus-wide initiative on Civil Discourse and Social Change at CSUN aimed at developing students’ capacities for civic engagement and social justice. Kathryn is a recipient of numerous national, state, and local community service awards for founding and directing Communicating Common Ground, an innovative service learning project that provided students opportunities to develop creative alternatives to intercultural conflict. Additionally, Kathryn has experience as a consultant and trainer for nonprofit, profit and educational organizations in the areas of intercultural communication and multicultural learning.