29.3749, Books: Transcending Self and Other Through Akogare [Desire]: Nonaka

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Subject: 29.3749, Books: Transcending Self and Other Through Akogare [Desire]: Nonaka

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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:49:59
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Transcending Self and Other Through Akogare [Desire]: Nonaka

 


Title: Transcending Self and Other Through Akogare [Desire] 
Subtitle: The English Language and the Internationalization of Higher Education in
Japan 
Series Title: New Perspectives on Language and Education  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781788921701 


Author: Chisato Nonaka

Hardback: ISBN:  9781788921701 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 139.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781788921701 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 99.95


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=130394




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