Nancy Abelmann
Anthropologist, Citizen, and Thinker in/on the Global University
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8995505 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jiyeon Kang (0000-0002-8938-7656, University of Kang Ning, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 953-970 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911818000979 |
| OpenAlex | W2896252998 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article discusses Nancy Abelmann's scholarship on the university and includes a new study of the South Korean media discourse on Chinese international students—a work she planned but could not undertake. Abelmann studied the university, viewing it as a window to society's particular desires and anxieties regarding the future. Her research on South Korean university students reveals their personal fervor and struggle to stay afloat amidst the country's rapid modernization and globalization. Her later work on the American university considers the struggles of Asian American and Asian international students, illuminating the new realities of a global educational market and exploring new ethics of sharing the same university. The study in the second part of this article demonstrates how South Korean universities and public discourse have attempted to “optimize” the increasing numbers of Chinese international students as financial and symbolic capital. The shift between 2001 and 2016 from maximizing to distancing shows that Korean universities were straddling a line between the desire to become global institutions and the realization that they are a second-choice destination in the global higher-education market
Globalization · Higher education · International education · Media studies · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Work (physics · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Higher Education Governance and Development · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Law
The Domestication of South Korean Pre-College Study Abroad in the First Decade of the Millennium
The Intimate University
Paradise Redefined
The critique of vernacular discourse
The Melodrama of Mobility
Imagined communities
College rank and neo-liberal subjectivity in South Korea
Memoir/manuals of South Korean pre-college study abroad
The Intimate University
Class and Cosmopolitan Striving
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The intimate university
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |