The Romance of Crossing Borders: Studying and Volunteering Abroad

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

The Romance of Crossing Borders

Studying and Volunteering Abroad

Edited by: Neriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis Taïeb

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785333590

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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

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.

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

Reviews

“Overall, this edited volume illustrates the complexities of affective encounters as students and young volunteers cross borders and engage with cultural diversity. Important is the relevance of understanding, studying, and acknowledging how affect impacts subject-making as students travel. There are also important insights that allow practitioners, teachers and programme co-ordinators to think strategically about how to better direct or address affective encounters in more meaningful and productive ways.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)

“The volume provides us with some valuable insights … as an increasing number, if still a minority, of students take up opportunities to spend some of their education in a stay abroad. This book should, therefore, be particularly useful for students and professionals in the ﬁelds of mobility studies, international education and education more broadly.” • Anthropological Forum

“This volume offers an exciting focus for scholarship, and one that definitely speaks to a growing area of interest in, and support for, study abroad as a necessary component of an undergraduate academic career… It offers tools for careful critique and consideration for study abroad at a moment when such tools are valuable and increasingly necessary.” • John Bodinger de Uriarte, Susquehanna University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Preface: The Romance of Study Abroad Michael Woolf Publicly Available Download PDF	X
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	XVI
PART I Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Affect and Romance in Study and Volunteer Abroad: Introducing our Project Neriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis Taïeb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER 2 Study Abroad and Its Reasons: A Critical Overview of the Field Hannah Davis Taïeb and Neriko Musha Doerr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
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 Rodríguez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
CHAPTER 4 Sojourn to the Dark Continent: Landscape and Affect in an African Mobility Experience Bradley Rink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
CHAPTER 5 Thinking Through the Romance Hannah Davis Taïeb, Emily Bihl, Mai-Linh Bui, Hyojung Kim and Kaitlin Rosenblum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
CHAPTER 6 Falling In/Out of Love with the Place: Affective Investment, Perceptions of Difference, and Learning in Study Abroad Neriko Musha Doerr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
CHAPTER 7 Learning Japanese/Japan in a Year Abroad in Kyoto: Discourse of Study Abroad, Emotions, and Construction of Self Yuri Kumagai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
CHAPTER 9 “People with Pants” Self-Perceptions of WorldTeach Volunteers in the Marshall Islands Ruochen Richard Li Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Conclusion Hannah Davis Taïeb and Neriko Musha Doerr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Student Photo Essay Morgan Greer, Lee-Anna John, Richard Suarez and Carla Villacís Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281