The Romance of Crossing Borders : : Studying and Volunteering Abroad /

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

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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 compli...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Bihl, Emily,
Bui, Mai-Linh,
Doerr, Neriko Musha,
Greer, Morgan,
Jakubiak, Cori,
John, Lee-Anna,
Kim, Hyojung,
Kumagai, Yuri,
Li, Ruochen Richard,
Rink, Bradley,
Rodríguez, Karen,
Rosenblum, Kaitlin,
Suarez, Richard,
Taïeb, Hannah Davis,
Villacís, Carla,
Woolf, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Doerr, Neriko Musha,
Taïeb, Hannah Davis,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (302 p.)
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Table of 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

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