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The Romance of Crossing Borders : Studying and Volunteering Abroad / ed. by Neriko Musha Doerr, Hannah Davis Taïeb.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785333583
  • 9781785333590
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.116/2 23
LOC classification:
  • LB2375 .R66 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface: The Romance of Study Abroad -- Acknowledgements -- PART I Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Affect and Romance in Study and Volunteer Abroad: Introducing our Project -- CHAPTER 2 Study Abroad and Its Reasons: A Critical Overview of the Field -- 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 -- CHAPTER 4 Sojourn to the Dark Continent: Landscape and Affect in an African Mobility Experience -- CHAPTER 5 Thinking Through the Romance -- CHAPTER 6 Falling In/Out of Love with the Place: Affective Investment, Perceptions of Difference, and Learning in Study Abroad -- CHAPTER 7 Learning Japanese/Japan in a Year Abroad in Kyoto: Discourse of Study Abroad, Emotions, and Construction of Self -- 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 -- CHAPTER 9 “People with Pants” Self-Perceptions of WorldTeach Volunteers in the Marshall Islands -- Conclusion -- Student Photo Essay -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface: The Romance of Study Abroad -- Acknowledgements -- PART I Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Affect and Romance in Study and Volunteer Abroad: Introducing our Project -- CHAPTER 2 Study Abroad and Its Reasons: A Critical Overview of the Field -- 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 -- CHAPTER 4 Sojourn to the Dark Continent: Landscape and Affect in an African Mobility Experience -- CHAPTER 5 Thinking Through the Romance -- CHAPTER 6 Falling In/Out of Love with the Place: Affective Investment, Perceptions of Difference, and Learning in Study Abroad -- CHAPTER 7 Learning Japanese/Japan in a Year Abroad in Kyoto: Discourse of Study Abroad, Emotions, and Construction of Self -- 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 -- CHAPTER 9 “People with Pants” Self-Perceptions of WorldTeach Volunteers in the Marshall Islands -- Conclusion -- Student Photo Essay -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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