Damp Rooms and Saying 'Please
Mimesis and Alterity in the Host Family Space in Study-Abroad Experiences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2144709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neriko Musha Doerr (0000-0002-1931-9236, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 58-78 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00664677.2012.717873 |
| OpenAlex | W2006144579 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 14 |
Study-abroad programs are a ‘globalizing project’ developed at the intersection of educational institutions seeking new income sources and the ideologies that the world is comprised of a mosaic of cultures and that ‘intercultural experience’ is valuable. While research on study-abroad programs often focuses on their effect on the students’ ‘global competence’ and language proficiency, this article focuses on the space, the space of host family in particular, produced in study-abroad programs. Study-abroad programs here are perceived in a wide sense to include various programs for students to go to another country to study. Study-abroad guidebooks and researchers portray the host family's life as constituting a quintessential ‘native life’, in which study-abroad students should be immersed. However, based on ethnographic fieldwork in Aotearoa/New Zealand, this article argues that the distinction between ‘cultural difference’ and ‘cultural sameness’ is a construction, resulting in mutual accommodation and intolerant judgments, respectively. That is, when host parents recognised the ‘cultural difference’ of the foreign students’ behaviour, they often sought to understand meanings behind the behaviour, resulting in mutual accommodation. It turned the space into what Michael Taussig calls the ‘space between’, in which it is unclear who is imitating whom. When the host parents recognised ‘cultural sameness’ based on superficial similarity, however, their efforts to understand meanings behind behaviour was halted and, when the behaviour was considered problematic, led to the student being asked to move out. This article details an ironic space of study abroad where alterity inspired tolerance and similarity inspired intolerance
Accommodation · Aesthetics · Alterity · Aotearoa · Epistemology · Ethnography · Ideology · Linguistics · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Study abroad · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology
Desired learning, disavowed learning
When and Where I Enter
Reproduction of Difference Through Learning About a “Different Culture”
Do ‘global citizens’ need the parochial cultural other? Discourse of immersion in study abroad and learning-by-doing
Deviance, deviant behaviour and hospitality management
Beyond the production of tourism imaginaries
Immersion, Immigration, Immutability
Learner subjects in study abroad
Global competence' of minority immigrant students
The Comfort Women
Global Structures of Common Difference, Cultural Objectification, and Their Subversions
Study abroad as ‘adventure’
Do ‘global citizens’ need the parochial cultural other? Discourse of immersion in study abroad and learning-by-doing
Study Abroad
Encounters with Difference
The Global Situation
Desired Division, Disavowed Division
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2020 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |