This volume offers a variety of perspectives on politics and culture. The authors are united in their assumption of, and inquiry into, the pre-existing cultural values and practices that are brought to and reflected in activities of the state, as well as in organized activities against the state. The authors also address the intercultural nature of such political activism. Part One describes ways of configuring politics, culture and communication. Part Two presents case studies that explore the cultural grounds of political activism. The final section introduces a new feature to the Annual: a forum in which scholars question, challenge and explore a topic related to the volume's theme. In this year's forum, four scholars examine politics in intercultural training programmes.
PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS AND CULTURE Politics, Communication and Culture - Alberto Gonzalez and Dolores V Tanno Origins, Issues and Critique Cultural Influences in Political Communication - D Ray Heisey Complicity and Coherence in Intra/Intercultural Communication - Karen L Dace and Mark McPhail A Dialogue Political Identity - Randy Kluver Towards an Intercultural Understanding of Political Legitimacy Toward an Ethical Theory for Comparative Political Communication Based on the Coherence between Universal Human Rights and Cultural Relativism - Catherine Becker PART TWO: CULTURE AND NATIONALISM A Sovereign Nation's Functional Mythic Discourses - Rona Tamiko Halualani Returning to Aztl an - Lisa A Flores and Marouf A Hasain Jr Constitutive Rhetoric and the Construction of Chicano Nationalism PART THREE: POLITICS AND ITS CULTURAL BASE Ritual, Culture, and Communication - Shaorong Huang Deification of Mao Zedong in China's Cultural Revolution Movement The Multilexicality of the Mohawk Incident in Oka, Quebec as Reflected in the Recounted Narratives of Members of Different Receiving Communities - William J Starosta and Sandra Wills Hannon Avoiding a `Bull Moose' Rebellion in Taiwanese Politics - Jensen C Chung Particularistic Ties, Seniority, and Third-Party Mediation FORUM: POLITICS IN INTERCULTURAL TRAINING PROGRAMS Intercultural Training for Business Managers - Hui Ching-Chang and Richard Holt Reconsidering Power and Politics Introducing Power, Context, and Theory to Intercultural Training - Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz The Problem with Power - Anita Foeman Reflections on `Intercultural Training for Business Managers: Reconsidering Power and Politics' Responses to Leeds-Hurwitz and Foeman - Hui Ching-Chang and Richard Holt
