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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792963603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2017

ISBN

1-78920-833-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 pages)

Disciplina

370.1162

Soggetti

Foreign study - Social aspects

Voluntarism - Social aspects

International education - Social aspects

College students - Intellectual life

Educational anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.