ISBN:
9781785333590
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (302 p)
Edition:
1st edition
Parallel Title:
Available in another form
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
List of Tables -- Preface -- Michael Woolf -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Affect and Romance in Study and Volunteer Abroad: Introducing our Project -- Neriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis Taïeb -- Chapter 2. Study Abroad and its Reasons: A Critical Overview of the Field -- Hannah Davis Taïeb and Neriko Musha Doerr -- PART II: STUDYING WITH(OUT) PASSION: STUDY ABROAD AND AFFECT -- Chapter 3. Passionate Displacements into Other Tongues and Towns: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Shifting into a Second Language -- Karen Rodriguez -- Chapter 4. Sojourn to the Dark Continent: Landscape, Affect in an African Mobility Experience -- Bradley Rink -- Chapter 5. Thinking through the Romance -- Hannah Davis Taïeb, with Emily Bihl, Mai-Linh Bui, Hyojung Kim, and Kaitlin Rosenblum -- Chapter 6. Falling in/out of Love with the Place: Affective Investment, Perceptions of Difference, and Learning in Study Abroad -- Neriko Musha Doerr -- Chapter 7. Learning Japanese/Japan in a Year Abroad in Kyoto: Discourse of Study Abroad, Emotions, and Construction of Self -- Yuri Kumagai -- PART III: SERVING WITH PASSION: ROMANTIC IMAGES OF SELF AND OTHER IN VOLUNTEERING ABROAD -- Chapter 8. One Smile, One Hug: Romanticizing “Making a Difference” to Oneself and Others through English-Language Voluntourism -- Cori Jakubiak -- Chapter 9. “People with Pants”: Self-Perceptions of WorldTeach Volunteers in the Marshall Islands -- Ruochen Richard Li -- Conclusion -- Hannah Davis Taïeb and Neriko Musha Doerr -- Student Photo Essay -- Morgan Greer, Lee-Anna John, Richard Suarez, Carla Villacís -- Index --
Note:
Zielgruppe - Audience: Professional and scholarly
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