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Intercultural Communication
Globalization and Social Justice
Fourth Edition
- Kathryn Sorrells - California State University, Northridge, USA
- Sachi Sekimoto - Minnesota State University, Mankato
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Intercultural Communication
October 2025 | SAGE Publications, Inc
Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice, Fourth Edition, introduces students to the study of communication among cultures within the broader context of globalization. Kathryn Sorrells and new coauthor Sachi Sekimoto highlight history, power, and global institutions as central to understanding the relationships and contexts that shape intercultural communication. Based on a framework that promotes critical thinking, reflection, and action, this text takes a social justice approach that provides students with the skills and knowledge to create a more equitable world through communication. The new Fourth Edition includes additional case studies and expanded discussions of the backlash to globalization, the rise of ethnonationalism, decline of democracy, new media and new technologies, and implications for intercultural communication.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1: Opening the Conversation: Studying Intercultural Communication
Chapter 2: Understanding the Context of Globalization
Chapter 3: Globalizing Body Politics: Embodied Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
Chapter 4: (Dis)Placing Culture and Cultural Space: Locations of Nonverbal and Verbal Communication
Chapter 5: Privileging Relationships: Intercultural Communication in Interpersonal Contexts
Chapter 6: Crossing Borders: Migration and Intercultural Adaptation
Chapter7: Jamming Media and Popular Culture: Analyzing Messages About Diverse Cultures
Chapter 8: The Culture of Capitalism and the Business of Intercultural Communication
Chapter 9: Negotiating Intercultural Conflict and Social Justice: Strategies for Intercultural Relations
Chapter 10: Engaging Intercultural Communication for Social Justice: Challenges and Possibilities for Global Citizenship
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