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Expanding The Dialogue: The Need For Fat Studies In Critical Intercultural Communication, Hannah R. Long Dec 2015

Expanding The Dialogue: The Need For Fat Studies In Critical Intercultural Communication, Hannah R. Long

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In this paper, I argue that critical intercultural communication, as a discipline, can benefit from an inclusion of fat studies within its literature and analysis. Reciprocally, fat studies can also benefit from this relationship and the questions that would be raised for both fat studies and critical intercultural communication by such a juxtaposition of the areas of study. In particular, I employ my experiences as a fat, U.S. American woman to situate my own embodied knowledge as a way of understanding, in concert with literature reviews of fat studies and identity research within critical intercultural communication. I also utilize muted …


Oru Cultural Rojak, Bungkus, Please! Negotiating Hybridity In Everyday Moments, Karthiga Devi Veeramani Jul 2015

Oru Cultural Rojak, Bungkus, Please! Negotiating Hybridity In Everyday Moments, Karthiga Devi Veeramani

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In this research report, I analyze my diaspora lived experiences to understand how I experience post-colonial diaspora hybridity as a subject position and as a mode of resistance. I use Pathak’s (2013) post-colonial autoethnography as my methodology to present my narratives about my experiences of hybridity. I use memory recollection as my data and analyze specific memories of mine to learn how my border crossings and transnational movements shape the way I experience hybridity. I specifically write about moments in which essentialist cultural identities were imposed upon me. I analyze how I understand my hybridity in relation to such essentialist …