The romance of crossing borders : studying and volunteering abroad / edited by Neriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis Taïeb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doerr, Neriko Musha, 1967- editor.

Davis Taïeb, Hannah, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign study--Social aspects.

Foreign study.

Voluntarism--Social aspects.

Voluntarism.

International education--Social aspects.

International education.

College students--Intellectual life.

College students.

Educational anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn, 2017.

Summary:

What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? Often the answer is romance – the romance of landscapes, people, languages, the very sense of border-crossing – and longing for liberation, attraction to the unknown, yearning to make a difference. This volume explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling relate to broader social and economic forces.

Contents:

Preface : the romance of study abroad / Michael Woolf

Affect and romance in study and volunteer abroad : introducing our project / Neriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis Taieb

Study abroad and its reasons : a critical overview of the field / Hannah Davis Taieb and Neriko Musha Doerr

Passionate displacements into other tongues and towns : a psychoanalytic perspective on shifting into a second language / Karen Rodriguez

Sojourn to the dark continent : landscape and affect in an African mobility experience / Bradley Rink

Thinking through the romance / Hannah Davis Taieb, with Emily Bihl, Mai-Linh Bui, Hyojung Kim, and Kaitlin Rosenblum

Falling in/out of love with the place : affective investment, perceptions of difference, and learning in study abroad / Neriko Musha Doerr

Learning Japanese/Japan in a year abroad in Kyoto : discourse of study abroad

Emotions, and construction of self / Yuri Kumagai

Smile, one hug : romanticizing "making a difference" to oneself and others through English-language voluntourism / Cori Jakubiak

"People with pants" : self-perceptions of worldteach volunteers in the Marshall Islands / Ruochen Richard Li

Conclusion / Hannah Davis Taieb and Neriko Musha Doerr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-310-4

1-78920-833-5

OCLC:

1350570409