Romance of Crossing Borders

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

“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

• List of TablesPrefaceMichael WoolfAcknowledgementsPART I: INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Affect and Romance in Study and Volunteer Abroad: Introducing our ProjectNeriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis TaïebChapter 2. Study Abroad and its Reasons: A Critical Overview of the FieldHannah Davis Taïeb and Neriko Musha DoerrPART II: STUDYING WITH(OUT) PASSION: STUDY ABROAD AND AFFECTChapter 3. Passionate Displacements into Other Tongues and Towns: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Shifting into a Second LanguageKaren RodriguezChapter 4. Sojourn to the Dark Continent: Landscape, Affect in an African Mobility ExperienceBradley RinkChapter 5. Thinking through the RomanceHannah Davis Taïeb, with Emily Bihl, Mai-Linh Bui, Hyojung Kim, and Kaitlin RosenblumChapter 6. Falling in/out of Love with the Place: Affective Investment, Perceptions of Difference, and Learning in Study AbroadNeriko Musha DoerrChapter 7. Learning Japanese/Japan in a Year Abroad in Kyoto: Discourse of Study Abroad, Emotions, and Construction of SelfYuri KumagaiPART III: SERVING WITH PASSION: ROMANTIC IMAGES OF SELF AND OTHER IN VOLUNTEERING ABROADChapter 8. One Smile, One Hug: Romanticizing “Making a Difference” to Oneself and Others through English-Language VoluntourismCori JakubiakChapter 9. “People with Pants”: Self-Perceptions of WorldTeach Volunteers in the Marshall IslandsRuochen Richard LiConclusionHannah Davis Taïeb and Neriko Musha DoerrStudent Photo EssayMorgan Greer, Lee-Anna John, Richard Suarez, Carla VillacísIndex