Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Critical Intercultural Communication Studies Formation: From Crossroads to Trajectories and Urgencies on Shifting Terrain -- Part I: Critical Junctures and Reflections in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies : Revisiting and Retracing. 2. Writing the Intellectual History of Intercultural Communication -- 3. Intercultural Communication and Dialectics Revisited -- 4. Critical Reflections on Culture and Critical Intercultural Communication -- 5. Reflections on "Problematizing 'Nation' in Intercultural Communication Research" -- 6. "A Transdisciplinary Turn in Critical Intercultural Communication" -- 7. "Other Bodies" in Interaction: Queer Relationalities and Intercultural Communication -- 8. Theorizing at the End of the World: Transforming Critical Intercultural Communication -- Part II: Critical Theoretical Dimensions in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies. 9. Culture as Text and Culture as Theory: Asiacentricity and Its Raison D'être in Intercultural Communication Research -- 10. Fabricating Difference: Interculturality and the Politics of Language -- 11. Livin' la Vida Marimacha: Post Borderlands and Queerness in Starz's Vida -- 12. The Hegemony of English and the Rise of Anti-globalism: Problems, Ideologies, and Solutions -- 13. On Terra Nullius and Texts: Settler Colonialism, Native Disappearance, and the Introductory Cultural Studies Reader -- 14. Studying AsiaPacifiQueer Communication: An Autoethnographic Critique of Japanese Queer Reimagining(s) of Hawai'i -- 15. Re-imagining Intercultural Communication Amid Multiple Pandemics -- 16. Therapeutic Media Representations: Recreating and Contesting the Past in Poland -- 17. A Call for Transformative Cultural Collaboration: Jewish Identity, the Race-religion Constellation, and Fighting Back Against White Nationalism -- 18. Decolonizing Theory and Research: Asiacentric Womanism as an Emancipatory Paradigm for Intercultural Communication Studies -- 19. Why Do Citizens with Guns Fear Immigrants with Flags? Flag-waving and Differential Adaptation Theory -- Part III: Critical Inquiry Practices in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies. 20. Methodological Reexaminations: Decolonizing Autoethnography and New Pathways in Critical Intercultural Communication -- 21. Embracing the Rigor of Critical Intercultural Communication Methods of Inquiry: Reflections on Seeing, Knowing, and Doing -- 22. A Sense of Healing: A Relational Meditation in Queer (and Trans) of Color Communism -- 23. Doing Critical Intercultural Communication Work as Political Commitment: Lessons Learned from Ethnographic Methods -- 24. Configuring a Post- and Decolonial Pedagogy: The Theory-method Conundrum -- 25. Critical Embodiment: Reflections on the Imperative of Praxis in the Four Seasons of Ethnography -- 26. The Depths of the Coatlicue State: Mitos, Religious Poetics, and the Politics of Soul Murder in Queer of Color Critique -- 27. Culture Counts: Quantitative Approaches to Critical Intercultural Communication -- 28. Culture-centered Method for Decolonization: Community Organizing to Dismantle Capitalist-colonial Organizing -- Part IV: Critical Topics in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies. 29. Homophobic Ghana? A Critical Intercultural Communication Intervention -- 30. Discussions of Race and Racism in Asian North American Pacific Islander's YouTube Videos: A Content Analysis -- 31. Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy at a Crossroads: Espousing Commitments as Pedagogical Praxis -- 32. What's Cooking? Caste as the (Not So) Secret Ingredient of Indian American Identity -- 33. The Aftermath of the Las Vegas Shooting: Engaging in Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy -- 34. Bridgerton: A Case Study in Critical Cultural Approaches to Racial Representations in Popular Culture -- 35. Unsettling Intercultural Communication: Settler Militarism and Indigenous Resistance from Oceania -- 36. Recovering the Dots of Social Injustice and Ecological Violence: A Case f or Critical Intercultural Communication -- 37. Navigating Undocumented Activism: Narratives, Positionality, and Immigration Politics -- 38. A Critical Intercultural View of War on Terror Militarism: The Case of the Production of Knowledge About Afghan Women in North America and Western Europe -- 39. Reading a Letter for Black Lives Matter: A Cultural Studies Approach to Asian American Intercultural Communication -- 40. Interstitials: Post-pandemic Reflections on the Matrix of Access, Inclusion and Privilege -- 41. Sensing Race in the Time of COVID-19 -- 42. Intersectional Delights: White South African Diaspora in the US -- Part V: Critical Intercultural Communication Futures. 43. Returning to (Neo)Normal: A Case Study in Critical Intercultural Health Communication -- 44. The Intercultural Questions at the Center of a Critical Reclamation of the University -- 45. The Challenge of the "More-than-human World": Toward an Ecological Turn in Intercultural Communication -- 46. Conclusion.