Critical Intercultural Performance Framework: Transnational Hybridity as Performance of Reentries

Abstract

ABSTRACT Although the critical turn in intercultural communication highlights how power dynamics affect one’s conceptualization of cultural identities, it does not consistently call for intersectionality and reflexivity from a transnational performance perspective. Working towards Critical Intercultural Performance (CIP) framework is a theoretical commitment that communicates transnational hybrid bodies as performance of reentries and makes explicit connection between the framework’s two tenets: intersectionality and reflexivity. CIP also centres the subjectivity of hybrid scholars who engage in transnational research and articulates the tensions of privileged and marginalized identities in transnational spaces.