Nancy Small & Bernadette Longo 
Transnational Research in Technical Communication 
Stories, Realities, and Reflections

Transnational Research in Technical Communication considers the complexities of intercultural projects from a compelling perspective: first-hand narrative reflections. Readers go behind the scenes as scholars share their experiences crossing a variety of borders in their efforts to engage in knowledge-making endeavors. Interwoven through each chapter are stories of how projects were designed, adapted, and sometimes even failed. The collection begins with an introduction situating it at the intersection of recent scholarship in storywork, intercultural research, and technical and professional communication’s social justice turn. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and recommendations for further reading. The closing chapter reveals a nascent ‘ethic of transnational and intercultural research’ growing out of contributors’ lessons learned and generous reflections. Anyone interested in or planning to undertake a transnational or intercultural project can benefit from these storied case studies, and as a result, this collection contributes to moving the field forward as it strives to promote more ethically aware and responsive research.

Mục lục

Introductions and Beginnings


Bernadette Longo and Nancy Small



1. Planning and Pivoting: Archival Work in Botswana and South Africa


Emily January Petersen



2. Grappling with Globalized Research Ethics: Notes from a Long-Term Qualitative Research Agenda in India


Breeanne Matheson



3. Lost in Translation: Losing Rigid Research Team Roles in a Field Study in Vietnam


Sarah Beth Hopton, Rebecca Walton, and Linh Nguyen



4. Accidental Tourist in a Narrative World with Technologies: A Story from Katanga Province


Bernadette Longo



5. Across the Divide: Communicating with Stakeholders in Papua New Guinea


Bea Amaya



6. ‘Nuestra vida en el medio oeste, USA’: Listening to Mexican Immigrants


Laura Pigozzi



7. Syrian Refugee Women’s Voices: Research Grounded in Stories and Recipe Sharing


Nabila Hijazi



8. Relearning Your Knowledge: The Loud Silence


Yvan Yenda Ilunga



9. Chemistry Publication Ethics in China and the United States: Transdisciplinary Teaming in a Time of Change


Kathryn Northcut



10. Mingled Threads: A Tapestry of Tales from a Complex Multinational Project


Rosário Durão, Kyle Mattson, Marta Pacheco Pinto, Joana Moura, Ricardo López-Léon, and Anastasia Parianou



11. Importing Lessons from Qatar: Toward a Research Ethic in Transnational and Intercultural TPC


Nancy Small



References

Giới thiệu về tác giả

Nancy Small is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wyoming.
Bernadette Longo is Associate Professor of Humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.