Abstract (Graduate Student)
This paper explores how globalization studies can further enhance theoretical values of postcolonial approaches to communication studies. It argues that the commitment of globalization studies to postcolonial approaches, first and foremost, is to theorize the global-local dialectic (configurations), to answer how the global-local dialectic operates, and how it can be undone and/or redone beyond boundaries of space, place and temporality (Tomlinson, 1999).
Thus, the core of this paper examines the assumption that a clear theoretical recognition of the global-local dialectic at the intersection of globalization and postcolonial studies can create more spaces for alternative (non-Western) scholarship in critical intercultural communication studies.
Key words: globalization; postcolonial; the global; the local; dialectic
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