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The Romance of Crossing Borders: Studying and Volunteering Abroad
Neriko Doerr
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Description for The Romance of Crossing Borders: Studying and Volunteering Abroad
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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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785333583
SKU
V9781785333583
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About Neriko Doerr
Neriko Musha Doerr received a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Cornell University. She currently teaches at Ramapo College, U.S.A. Hannah Davis Taieb 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.
Reviews for The Romance of Crossing Borders: Studying and Volunteering Abroad
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.
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