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In this article, I write my autoethnography of disidentifications from the West(ern) as I become an Other in the context of cross-national transitions from Japan to the United States. Specifically, I illustrate my performative modes of disidentifying from the West(ern) genre and motif to examine how historical, cultural, and somatic impacts of the West(ern) are negotiated and renegotiated in everyday interactions. In doing so, I utilize my Asian/Japanese transnational gay identity as the embodied text to disrupt, complicate, and transform understandings of "Others" in the context of intraqueer/intercultural encounters.

Japan is heterogeneous and culturally diverse, both historically through ancient waves of immigration and in recent years due its foreign relations and internationalization. However, Japan has socially, culturally, politically and intellectually constructed a distinct and homogeneous identity. More recently, such an identity construction has been rightfully questioned and challenged by Japan's culturally diverse groups. This book explores the discursive systems of cultural identities that regenerate the illusion of Japan as a homogeneous nation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and methodological approaches investigate the ways in which Japan's homogenizing discourses are challenged and modified by counter-homogeneous message systems. They examine the discursive push-and-pull between the homogenizing and heterogenizing vectors, found in domestic and transnational contexts and mobilized by various identity politics, such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, foreign status, nationality, multiculturalism and internationalization. After offering a careful and critical analysis, the book calls for complicating Japan's homogenizing discourses in nuanced and contextual ways with an explicit goal of working towards a culturally diverse Japan.

Introduction: The state of ethnicity and race in communication / Bernadette Marie Calafell & Shinsuke Eguchi -- Theme 1. Representations that Matter -- Theme 2. Racial, Queer, and Trans* Worldmaking -- Theme 3. New Possibilities and Frontiers -- Theme 4. Theorizing Voices and Experiences -- Theme 5. The Body and the Politics of "Health" -- Theme 6. Revisiting the Landscape of Communication Studies.

As a method, we use autoethnography to explore coalition politics from our positions in academia. We use autoethnography to examine how similar identity categories presume sameness and can lead to conflict within institutions. This autoethnography looks at how coalitional politics were learned, as well as how coalitional politics are practiced within the institutional spaces of the university and academic discipline. In particular, we examine how we have experienced conflict and competition, as well as ways that we continue to build coalitional spaces. Through this, we place autoethnography as an explicitly political methodology.

Introduction. Asians loving Asians : sticky rice homoeroticism and queer politics -- Queerness of sticky rice : in and across Yellow fever and Front cover -- Queering gender borders of sticky rice : on Koreatown -- Living in paradox : seeing "alternative cartographies" through sticky rice -- Pedagogy of unfreedom : building queer relationalities through sticky rice -- Monstrous onē performance : sticking with Hikawa Kiyoshi -- Coda. Turning points : queer desire in progress.

De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research on race, intercultural communication, and politics. Calling for a re-centering of difference by exploring the emergence and inception of intersectionality concepts, the coeditors and contributors distinguish between the uses of intersectionality that seem inclusive versus those that actually enact inclusion by demonstrating how to re-conceptualize intersectionality in ways that explicate, elucidate, and elaborate culture-specific and text-specific nuances of knowledge for women of color, queer/trans-people of color, and non-western people of color who have been marked as the Others

"The goal of this book is to call for a transnational turn within critical intercultural communication and generate a discussion to facilitate this turn. Here, we argue that IC and critical intercultural communication did not fully experience a transnational turn. Although topics of inquiry might have been international and the researchers themselves might have been international scholars, their visibility and their voice remained limited in CIC. Moreover, researching international topics and writing about cultural identity formations do not equate to transnationalizing intercultural communication. Often, this scholarship perpetuates the hegemonic and U.S-centric ways of doing scholarship, and by default doing intercultural communication research. We call for a transnational turn within critical intercultural communication. We envision this turn to be intersectional, and it should reconsider the ideas of nation-state, nationality, and citizenship. The transnational turn will include non-U.S. perspectives and topics. This approach also uses theoretical frameworks that are developed by non-U.S-scholars and transnational scholars within the U.S academia. We recognize that even critical intercultural communication has citationality politics. We see this as a serious concern. Often the works of transnational scholars are not cited by the CIC scholars. To achieve transnational inclusivity with CIC, we advocate for the use of critical and cultural multi-methods or fusion of them or incorporation of new hybrid methodologies to answer complex, multidimensional, intersectional, and transnational issues and represent those lives and stories. Finally, we argue that the transnational turn is inter/transdisciplinary, and must borrow from Latinx studies, Black studies, feminist studies, ethnic studies, queer studies, humanities disciplines, art, and other areas"--

This collection features engaging scholarly essays and creative writings that examine the meaning of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. It provides a meaningful space to analyze identity and identity politics, highlighting the complexities of identity formation in the twenty-first century.