The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Transnationalism

Introduction: Communication and Transnationalism  

Shinsuke Eguchi and Jungmin Kwon 

Theme 1: Conceptualizing Communication and Transnationalism   

1. Shifting ‘the Transnational’ in the Digital Platform Era: Netflix’s Effects on Local Cultural Production  

Dal Yong Jin

2. How are Emotions about Africa(ns) Made? Towards an Analytic Framework for African (Transnational) Communication Research  

Tomide Oloruntobi and Tumininu Awonuga

3. Understanding Interracial Communication Through a Transnational Lens: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Approach  

Tina M. Harris, Uzoamaka Ogor, and Ibs Sackey-Rockson

4. Critical Intercultural Communication Studies and Transnationalism: Continual Considerations  

Rona Tamiko Halualani

5. Postcolonial Approaches in Organizational Communication: Toward Decolonization  

Joëlle M. Cruz and Tiara R. Na’puti

6. Transnational Communication, Policy, Geopolitics, and Public Opinion In Eurasia: Bridging East and West  

Olga Kamenchuk

7. The Changing Shape of Transnationalism in Latin American Communications Structures  

Lorena Retegui, Martín Becerra, and Guillermo Mastrini

8. Transnational Communications: Content, Capital, and Labor  

Angharad N. Valdivia

Theme 2: Transnational Digital Culture and Communication Technologies  

9. Digital Intimacy: A Critical Category of Transnational Analysis  

Lik Sam Chan

10. Transnationalism and Techno Centrism in Arab News  

Omar Al-Ghazzi and Abeer Al-Najjar

11. Disinformation, Media Control, and the Global Politics of Truth: Insights from Egypt  

Dounia Mahlouly

12. Fighting for Democracy through Increased Civic Engagement in Kenya: Upping the Ante  

George Nyabuga

13. Colonialism, Empire, and Neoliberalism in a (Dis)Connected World: This is How We Got Here  

Cleophas T. Muneri

14. Digital Development Policy for the Barrio Bodega  

Adrian T. Wong

15. Idealized Korean Popular Culture and Local Practices in the Transnational Mediascape: Digital Fans on the Continuum  

Sojeong Park and Jungmin Kwon

Theme 3: Transnational Queerness and Transness   

16. Queer and Transgender Transnational Media and Communication in Contemporary Asia  

Michelle H. S. Ho

17. “Beauty is Power, and I Have the Power!” Transnational Orientalism and Gender-Bending in 1980s and 90s Japanese Video Games  

David Kocik

18. Transnational Imagination of Queerphobic Asia: Anti-Political Correctness Discourse in the Chinese Gamer Community  

Yidong Wang

19. “Taiwan, This is for You!”: Nymphia Wind, Rethinking Homonationalism, and Liminal Mediated Diplomacy  

Ben Aslinger

20. Autoethnography of Transnational Asian America in WeHo’s Made in Asia: Dislocating Queer Citizenships  

Anh Alan Tuan Nguyen and Shinsuke Eguchi

21. Transnational Queer Un(Belongings): Is Feeling at Home a Fictional Tale  

Ahmet Atay

22. Anti-Trans Political Discourse in Transnational Context: Getting Gender (Far) Right  

Walker West Brewer, Nash Jenkins, and Thomas J Billard

 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

pim gonzales

24. The Three Realms of Disney’s Transnational Eternal Foreigners: Deterritorialized Industrial Trans Latinidad  

Diana Leon-Boys

25. Theorizing Exile, Return, and Resignation in Mexican Film: Cumbia Cinemática  

José Ángel Maldonado

26. Negotiating South Korea’s Relation to Nigeria Through Multiracial Celebrity: Transnational Mixed Asian/Black Beauty  

Seonah Kim and LeiLani Nishime  

27. The Intersectional Identities of Black, African Immigrants: More Than an Accent  

Doris E. Acheme

28. Ukrainian Women in Italy: The True Colors of European Transculturality  

Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager and Veronica De Sanctis

29. Aztlán, Decolonial Resistance and Transnationalism in El Grito Del Norte: ‘Despierten Hermanos’  

Cristina Mislán

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  

Megu Itoh

31. Pachinko, small stories, and first-generation Koreans in Japan: Imagining transnational Korean diaspora  

Min Wha Han and JongHwa Lee

32. New Voices in Chinese American and Chinese Australian Literature: Redefining Cultural Citizenship in Asian Diasporas  

Wenche Ommundsen

33. Normativity of Digital Linguistic Diversity from the Global South  

Sender Dovchin and Nirvana Lavictoire

34. Migrant Footballers, Communication and Familial Transnationalism  

Chuka Onwumechili and Unwana Samuel Akpan

35. Palestinian Cinema as Transnational Cinema: Spatiality and Decolonial Experiments  

Kristin Lené Hole

36. Media Representations of Migration in Southern European Countries: A Spectrum of “Othering” between National and Transnational Identities  

Maria Avraamidou

37. From Russian to Ukrainian: The Impossibility of Language and Decoloniality  

Marina Levina

38. Representing Latinidad, Facing Gentrification: From In the Heights to Latin London  

Camilo Soler Caicedo and Patria Román-Velázquez

39. Feminist Digital Communication, Diasporas, and Activism Across Borders: Building Transnational Counterpublics  

Sudeshna Roy

Biography

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.