A Spectral Genealogy of Performance in Intercultural Communication Studies.

The traces of performance studies that bolster intercultural communication elude strict disciplinary confinement. Despite many convergences between the two disciplines, they have been frequently made to occupy oppositional positions within Communication Studies. While their methods vary, I see the impetus of both areas being oriented towards moving through three major dialectics: 1. Reflection <-> Reflexivity 2. Illumination <-> Emplacement 3. Transcription <-> Translation. This essay considers how intercultural communication and performance studies enter these dialectics together to illuminate paradigms of power. I argue that the "performative turn" has underwritten negotiations of culture, identity, and power in intercultural communication scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]