Routledge Handbook of Communication and Transnationalism

Shinsuke Eguchi is Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University, USA. Their recent publications include The Routledge Handbook of Ethnicity and Race in Communication (Routledge, 2024) and Intercultural Communication in Japan (Routledge, 2017).Jungmin Kwon is Professor in the School of Film at Portland State University, USA.

• Introduction: Communication and Transnationalism Theme 1: Conceptualizing Communication and Transnationalism 1. Shifting ‘the Transnational’ in the Digital Platform Era: Netflix’s Effects on Local Cultural Production 2. How are Emotions about Africa(ns) Made? Toward an Analytic Framework for African (Transnational) Communication Research 3. Understanding Interracial Communication Through a Transnational Lens: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Approach 4. Critical Intercultural Communication Studies and Transnationalism: Continual Considerations 5. Postcolonial Approaches in Organizational Communication: Toward Decolonization 6. Transnational Communication, Policy, Geopolitics, and Public Opinion In Eurasia: Bridging East and West 7. The Changing Shape of Transnationalism in Latin American Communications Structures 8. Transnational Communications: Content, Capital, and Labor Theme 2: Transnational Digital Culture and Communication Technologies 9. Digital Intimacy: A Critical Category of Transnational Analysis 10. Transnationalism and Techno Centrism in Arab News 11. Disinformation, Media Control, and the Global Politics of Truth: Insights from Egypt 12. Fighting for Democracy through Increased Civic Engagement in Kenya: Upping the Ante 13. Colonialism, Empire, and Neoliberalism in a (Dis)Connected World: This is How We Got Here 14. Digital Development Policy for the Barrio Bodega 15. Idealized Korean Popular Culture and Local Practices in the Transnational Mediascape: Digital Fans on the Continuum Theme 3: Transnational Queerness and Transness 16. Queer and Transgender Transnational Media and Communication in Contemporary Asia 17. “Beauty is Power, and I Have the Power!” Transnational Orientalism and Gender-Bending in 1980s and 90s Japanese Video Games 18. Transnational Imagination of Queerphobic Asia: Anti-Political Correctness Discourse in the Chinese Gamer Community 19. “Taiwan, This is for You!”: Nymphia Wind, Rethinking Homonationalism, and Liminal Mediated Diplomacy 20. Autoethnography of Transnational Asian America in WeHo’s Made in Asia: Dislocating Queer Citizenships 21. Transnational Queer Un(Belongings): Is Feeling at Home a Fictional Tale 22. Anti-Trans Political Discourse in Transnational Context: Getting Gender (Far) Right Theme 4: The Politics of Difference in Transnational Media Cultures 23. Unmaking Empires and Ongoing Genocide: Transnational Feminist Critique and Recovering the Voice in Communication Studies 24. The Three Realms of Disney’s Transnational Eternal Foreigners: Deterritorialized Industrial Trans Latinidad 25. Theorizing Exile, Return, and Resignation in Mexican Film: Cumbia Cinemática 26. Negotiating South Korea’s Relation to Nigeria Through Multiracial Celebrity: Transnational Mixed Asian/Black Beauty 27. The Intersectional Identities of Black, African Immigrants: More Than an Accent 28. Ukrainian Women in Italy: The True Colors of European Transculturality 29. Aztlán, Decolonial Resistance and Transnationalism in El Grito Del Norte: ‘Despierten Hermanos’ Theme 5: Diaspora, Postcolonialism and Decoloniality through Transnational Communication 30. Transnational Belonging Between Nisei and Japanese Subjects Under the US Occupation (1945-1952): Smoking Cigarettes to Kindle Solidarities 31. Pachinko, small stories, and first-generation Koreans in Japan: Imagining transnational Korean diaspora 32. New Voices in Chinese American and Chinese Australian Literature: Redefining Cultural Citizenship in Asian Diasporas 33. Normativity of Digital Linguistic Diversity from the Global South 34. Migrant Footballers, Communication and Familial Transnationalism 35. Palestinian Cinema as Transnational Cinema: Spatiality and Decolonial Experiments 36. Media Representations of Migration in Southern European Countries: A Spectrum of “Othering” between National and Transnational Identities 37. From Russian to Ukrainian: The Impossibility of Language and Decoloniality 38. Representing Latinidad, Facing Gentrification: From In the Heights to Latin London 39. Feminist Digital Communication, Diasporas, and Activism Across Borders: Building Transnational Counterpublics