Ferment in the Intercultural Field: Axiology/Value/Praxis, Volume 26 of The International and Intercultural Communication Annual examines how the field of intercultural communication has encouraged new techniques in the area of research. Editors William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen, along with a diverse group of distinguished contributors, recall the 1983 topical issue of The Journal of Communication that reported a critical turn and a shift of paradigms in communication research.

Recommended for scholars and researchers in the area of intercultural communication, Ferment in the Intercultural Field is also a vital resource for upper-level undergraduate and graduate communication students.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Section I: Toward a Fifth Moment in Intercultural Communication Research
1. "Ferment," an Ethic of Caring, and the Corrective Power of Dialogue - William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen
2. A Postmodern Critique of Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication Research: Contesting Essentialism, Postivist Dualism, and Eurocentricity - Rueyling Chuang
Section II: Ethics and Axiology in Intercultural Communication
3. Intercultural Communication as a Social Problem in a Globalized Context: Ethics of Praxis Research Techniques - W. F. Santiago-Valles
4. Discord in Intercultural Negotiation: Toward an Ethic of Communicability - Andrew R. Smith
Section III: Cultural Communication in Historical Context
5. Communication Markers of At-Risk Southeast Asian Refugee Youth - Steven C. Combs and Kerry A. Causey
6. Academic Witnessing, French Cultures, and the Echoes of Holocaust Memories - Marouf Hasian, Jr.
Section IV: Identity Negotiation in Dealings with the Other
7. White Positionalities and Cultural Contracts: Critiquing Entitlement, Theorizing, and Exploring the Negotiation of White Identities - Ronald L. Jackson, II and Katherine Simpson
8. A Review of Identity Reserach in Communication Theory: Re-conceptualizing Cultural Identity - Chang In Shin and Ronald L. Jackson, II
Section V: On Alternative Centrisms
9. Beyond Eurocentrism in the Intercultural Field: Searching for an Asiacentric Paradigm - Yoshitaka Miike
10. On Theorizing Difference: Culture as Centrism - William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen
Index
About the Editors