anthropology
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civic
coming of age
cultural
cultural experiences
culture
economic forces
economics
education
educators
engaging
english language voluntourism
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family
foreign travel
freedom
language
liberation
life changes
living abroad
making a difference
outcasts and outsiders
overseas travel
page turner
personal growth
political
self help
social forces
social issues
social science
students and teachers
tourism
travel
travel writing
volunteering
working abroad
Product details
- ISBN 9781785333583
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2017
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Neriko Musha Doerr received a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Cornell University. She currently teaches at Ramapo College, U.S.A.
