Doerr / Taïeb The Romance of Crossing Borders

Studying and Volunteering Abroad
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-359-0
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doerr, Neriko Musha

Taïeb, Hannah Davis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Tourismus & Reise: Soziologie, Psychologie, Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Taïeb, Hannah Davis
Hannah Davis Taïeb has a Phd in anthropology from New York University. She is an independent international educator teaching community engagement and intercultural communication in Paris. She was Resident Director at CIEE-Paris from 2003 to 2015.

Doerr, Neriko Musha
Neriko Musha Doerr received a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Cornell University. She currently teaches at Ramapo College, U.S.A.