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This article critiques the US/UK centrism in cultural studies work in our field and the larger US academy. It addresses the limits of concepts in Cultural Studies that are popular in the Communication discipline when they are taken to the Global South and the Postcolonial Non-West. The article is an invitation to scholars to actively de-parochialize their research and teaching in light of dispossessions in the Global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay invites us to consider the need to rethink culture and some theoretical/intellectual assumptions in Cultural Studies when we bring up the issue of the "Global South." The essay makes a case for "going South" in Cultural Studies. It advances a notion of the South that is based on a frame of dispossession. The first section offers a historical overview of the Global South and considers where the Global South is today. The second section attempts to rethink the notion of 'culture' and some intellectual orientations in Cultural Studies when we move to the Global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This forum paper invites us to consider whether the neoliberal restructuring of academic labor and structures is impacting the development of theory-oriented scholarship in the Communications field. The paper focuses on the possibility that this might be occurring and engages with areas where we might see such impact. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This essay addresses the difficult politics of 'internationalizing' cultural studies. In an effort to participate in ongoing conversations about, and around, 'internationalizing' cultural studies, this essay invites us to attend to the frames of reference that can sometimes underlie our efforts at 'internationalizing' cultural studies. Examining larger issues such as our frequent unexamined points of departure into the 'international', the geo-politics of knowledge production, academic protocols and practices, the gross unevenness in transnational exchange and circulation of knowledge, the continued hegemony of English as a language that secures academic legitimacy, this essay probes some of the obstacles that can often confront attempts at decolonizing cultural studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay critically reviews some trends in transnational feminist communication studies. It then makes a case for the importance of transnational perspectives in feminist communication scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article re-examines some current theoretical trends through which concepts such as diaspora and hybridity have been theorized in cultural studies in the western academy. It argues that these concepts are being rearticulated in new ways in neoliberal globalization, which has implications for rethinking the politics of race and colonialism. Through an analysis of call centers in India, this article theorizes how the cultural politics of Indian call centers, and global flows of information technology, manifest new and emerging frameworks of hybridity and diaspora. Such frameworks point to new relations of race, belonging, and colonialism and unsettle many of the prevailing assumptions through which diaspora and hybridity have been typically understood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the implications of conducting interdisciplinary research in globalization. It emphasizes the need for transnational interdisciplinary practices that ethically remain aware of the inequalities of globalization that continually inform intellectual practices, especially in the West/North. The overall goal of the essay is to invite communication scholars to reflect on, and rethink, the (U.S.)-centered orientations that often inform interdisciplinary research in the field, especially when considered in the context of inequalities of globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]