Nonaka Transcending Self and Other Through Akogare [Desire]

The English Language and the Internationalization of Higher Education in Japan
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78892-172-5
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 61, 208 Seiten

Reihe: New Perspectives on Language and Education

The Japanese concept of akogare has become well known in TESOL-related literature in recent years, usually in the context of interracial sexual desire. In this far-reaching new study of the internationalization of Japanese Higher Education, Chisato Nonaka uses akogare as both an analytical lens and the object of enquiry, and ultimately reconceptualises it as the creation of a space where individuals negotiate and transcend their ethnic, national, racial, gender or linguistic identities. The book innovatively engages with the often controversial binary of Japanese/non-Japanese, and demonstrates how Japan (often thought of as a homogenous nation) may be at a critical crossroads where long-held assumptions about a singular ‘Japanese identity’ no longer hold true. The book has profound implications for how ‘internationalization’ can mean more than just the use of English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nonaka, Chisato

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Foreword

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Akogare and My Study Participants

Chapter 3. Akogare in Academic Literature and the Akogare Theoretical Framework

Chapter 4. Methodology

Chapter 5. Akogare and Gender

Chapter 6. Akogare and Precarious “Japan”

Chapter 7. Akogare and Japanese Higher Education Today

Chapter 8. Conclusion and Future Implications

Appendix

References

Über Autor(innen)

Nonaka, Chisato
Chisato Nonaka is an Associate Professor in the International Student Center, Kyushu University, Japan. Her research interests include issues of linguistic, racial, ethnic, national, class and gender-related identities, particularly in transnational education contexts.