The Romance of Crossing Borders (eBook)

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.

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

Student Photo Essay
Morgan Greer, Lee-Anna John, Richard Suarez, Carla Villacís

Index