Ferment in the Intercultural Field

William J. Starosta (Ph.D., Intercultural Communication, Indiana University,) teaches coursework in intercultural communication, qualitative research, and rhetoric. He has held elective office in two professional societies. He is founding editor of the Howard Journal of Communications and presently researches inter-ethnic conflict, intercultural rhetoric, and intercultural communication theory. Guo-Ming Chen (Ph.D., Kent State University; M.A., University of New Mexico; B.A., Chinese Culture University) was the recipient of the 1987 Outstanding Dissertation Award presented by the SCA International and Intercultural Communication Division. His primary research interests are in intercultural/organizational communication, including the areas of global communication, communication competence, conflict management, and cultural values and language. In addition to serving as an editorial board member of different professional journals, Dr. Chen has published numerous articles and edited and co-authored several books and special issues, including Foundations of Intercultural Communication, Communication and Global Society, Chinese Conflict Management and Resolution, and three special issues of Intercultural Communication Studies on Chinese and East Asian conflict management and communication.

Preface Acknowledgments Section I: Toward a Fifth Moment in Intercultural Communication Research 1. "Ferment," an Ethic of Caring, and the Corrective Power of Dialogue - William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen 2. A Postmodern Critique of Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication Research: Contesting Essentialism, Postivist Dualism, and Eurocentricity - Rueyling Chuang Section II: Ethics and Axiology in Intercultural Communication 3. Intercultural Communication as a Social Problem in a Globalized Context: Ethics of Praxis Research Techniques - W. F. Santiago-Valles 4. Discord in Intercultural Negotiation: Toward an Ethic of Communicability - Andrew R. Smith Section III: Cultural Communication in Historical Context 5. Communication Markers of At-Risk Southeast Asian Refugee Youth - Steven C. Combs and Kerry A. Causey 6. Academic Witnessing, French Cultures, and the Echoes of Holocaust Memories - Marouf Hasian, Jr. Section IV: Identity Negotiation in Dealings with the Other 7. White Positionalities and Cultural Contracts: Critiquing Entitlement, Theorizing, and Exploring the Negotiation of White Identities - Ronald L. Jackson, II and Katherine Simpson 8. A Review of Identity Reserach in Communication Theory: Re-conceptualizing Cultural Identity - Chang In Shin and Ronald L. Jackson, II Section V: On Alternative Centrisms 9. Beyond Eurocentrism in the Intercultural Field: Searching for an Asiacentric Paradigm - Yoshitaka Miike 10. On Theorizing Difference: Culture as Centrism - William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen Index About the Editors