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    Transcending Self and Other Through Akogare [Desire]: The English Language and the Internationalization of Higher Education in Japan
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    Transcending Self and Other Through Akogare [Desire]: The English Language and the Internationalization of Higher Education in Japan

    By Chisato Nonaka

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMultilingual Matters
    Release dateSep 26, 2018
    ISBN9781788921725
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    Transcending Self and Other Through Akogare [Desire]: The English Language and the Internationalization of Higher Education in Japan
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    Chisato Nonaka

    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.

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