Southern Perspectives

Being a Southeast Asian Doctoral Student in Foreign Lands
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74690-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: The Doctoral Journey in Education

This volume is a collection of the stories of eight international students from Southeast Asia who journeyed to undertake doctoral studies in an Australian university. Each author shares the academic and cultural challenges of living and studying in a foreign country and adjusting to different cultural and social contexts, including the drivers, motivators, personal and familial expectations of undertaking doctoral studies in a foreign land, their changing sense of self and identity on their journey, and the impact of being separated from family, friends, and familiar supports. Insights are gained into the social, cultural and familial experiences that challenge doctoral students and their family members.

Contributors are: M. Maksud Ali, Elizabeth Allotta, Brent Bradford, Danwei Gao, Huan Yik Lee, Yifie Liang, Muhammad Ali Musofer, Garth Stahl, Aaron Teo and Preeti Vayada.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Allotta, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor’s Foreword: The Doctoral Journey in Education Brent Bradford

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notable Quotes

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Insights into the Doctoral Journey from Different Southeast Asian Perspectives Elizabeth Allotta

1 Becoming a PhD Scholar: A Collaborative and Productive Doctoral Journey Yifiei Liang

2 Researching Masculinities as a Path to Undo Gender: An Autoethnography of a Cisgender Male Chinese Doctoral Student in Australia Yang Zhao

3 Becoming a Decolonial Researcher: Storying My Doctoral Journey Preeti Vayada

4 Human Capital as the Object of Doctoral Study and the Object of Desire: An Evocative Autoethnography Muhammad Maksud Ali

5 From Karakorum Heights to Australian Shores: A Rhizomatic Doctoral Odyssey Muhammad Ali Musofer

6 ‘Doctoral Is for Life’: Narratives of a Global South Doctoral Scholar Huan Yik Lee

7 From China to Australia: A Three-Moment Field Analysis of the Transnational Doctoral Experience Danwei Gao

8 The Doctoral Journey: An ‘Asian’ Australian Ex-Schoolteacher’s Critical Autoethnographic Exploration of Migration, Anti-Asian Racism and Education Aaron Teo

PART 1: Final Thoughts

Contributor Thoughts upon Completion

Afterword Garth Stahl

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Allotta, Ph.D. (2023), is an educator passionate about the experiences of teachers and doctoral students working and studying in Australian contexts. She has edited another volume in this series, Different perspectives, different cultures, different places: The experiences of international and domestic students studying in an Australian university (Brill, 2023).