This book is an edited collection of case studies of contemporary issues in culture and communication around the world.

Jolanta A. Drzewiecka (Ph.D., Arizona State University) is Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication at Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. Her work focuses on migrant belonging, nationalism, and public memory. She has published in Communication Theory, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and other journals. Thomas K. Nakayama (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. His works include Intercultural Communication in Contexts, Experiencing Intercultural Communication, and The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication. He was the founding editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.

“In , communication professors Jolanta A. Drzewiecka and Thomas K. Nakayama have compiled a wonderfully complex, rich, and diverse set of chapters that help to understand communication globally. Each chapter examines an interesting communication problematic, ranging from the construction of 'bad women' to the 'right' bodies of sex workers. In each, a deep awareness of cultural context, privileges, social struggle, historical and contemporary markers of difference, and geopolitical and globalizing features of culture-scapes broadly make this book a must-read in communication courses that want to explore things from a global perspective.”—Kent Ono, University of Utah (USA)

“We have here a diverse, distinctive collection of essays concerned with the human implications and on-the-ground entanglements of life under globalization, that seemingly intractable but unavoidable phenomenon.”—Crispin Thurlow, University of Bern (Switzerland)