A Sampling of Useful Reference Tools and Books
- A Companion to Border StudiesPublication Date: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012Explores how nations and cultural identities are being transformed by their dynamic, shifting borders where mobility is sometimes facilitated, other times impeded or prevented.
- Encyclopedia of DiasporasPublication Date: Springer, 2004Consists of two volumes covering three main sections: Diaspora Overviews covers over 20 ethnic groups that have experienced voluntary or forced immigration; Topics discusses the impact and assimilation that the immigrant cultures experience in their adopted cultures; Diaspora Communities include over 60 portraits of specific diaspora communities.
- International Encyclopedia of Intercultural CommunicationPublication Date: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018Presents a broadly-based taxonomy of intercultural communication (ICC) that consists of six organizing themes: the traditional ICC core theme--known as "intercultural communication"--and five associated themes recognized as "cross-cultural communication," "cultural communication," "intergroup communication," "intercultural training," and "critical intercultural communication." It addresses issues of ethnicity and race in intercultural communication--not as a separate theme, but as an integral part of each thematic area.
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences byCall Number: Also in print: Olin Library Reference (Non-Circulating) H41 .I58x 2001ISBN: 0080430767Publication Date: 200126 Vols. Covers theory and methodology in core disciplines and emphasizes the cross-disciplinary interconnectedness among fields within the social sciences. More than 4,000 signed entries including overviews, reviews of future directions, biographies and bibliographies. Online version provides ongoing regular updates and additional new articles. Vol. 26 in print format is a classified list of entries by field and extensive subject index connecting related topics.
- Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital AgePublication Date: Routledge, 2019Examines the complex and multidimensional relationship between culture and social media, and its specific impact on issues of identity and social movements, in a globalized world.
- Routledge Handbook of Asian BorderlandsPublication Date: Routledge, 2018Offers an array of comparative perspectives of Asian borders and borderlands in the global context, this handbook is divided into thematic sections, including: livelihoods, commodities and mobilities, physical land use and agrarian transformations, borders and boundaries of the state and the notion of statelessness, re-conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands, tthe existence and influence of humanitarians, religions, and NGOs.
- Oxford Bibliographies: Cinema and Media StudiesProvides peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on film history, television studies, media studies, critical theory, visual arts, cultural studies, digital culture, game studies, popular culture, and the study of the moving image. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable.
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