“Critical” Junctures in Intercultural Communication Studies: A Review

Abstract

This literature review foregrounds the critiques, moves, and junctures that have specifically retheorized culture and communication from a critical intercultural communication perspective, and set the stage for a fifth “moment” in the field of intercultural communication. Likewise, the historically specific moments when various scholars dared to question, confront, and wrestle with definitions and theoretical formations of culture and intercultural communication are delineated. Such a review will elucidate the role a critical perspective has played in the field of intercultural communication, and the crucial research questions, stances, and directions that arise from such a perspective for future intercultural communication studies.

Keywords:

• Critical Intercultural Communication
• Power
• Historical Context
• Culture as a Struggle

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Notes on contributors

Rona Tamiko Halualani

Rona Tamiko Halualani is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at San Jose State University

S. Lily Mendoza

S. Lily Mendoza is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan

Jolanta A. Drzewiecka

Jolanta A. Drzewiecka is Associate Professor in the E. R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University