Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia - Emotional Geographies of Knowledge Spaces

This book investigates why students choose to study in key Asian cities, and how this trend relates to the strategic intent of states and universities to build 'knowledge economies' and 'world-class' profiles. Drawing on substantial theoretical and empirical research, the authors examine the emotional geographies of East Asian international education, and offer new analytical insights into the relations between emotions, nation and subjectivity. The book challenges Eurocentric views of Asia as a space of volatile nationalist rivalries. By offering richly textured portraits of mobile students, it questions contemporary memes about the utility-maximising Asian learner. This is a thought-provoking text that will appeal to university researchers, academics and students interested in the changing architectures of international education.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Emotional Geographies of International Students: Beginning an East Asian Conversation.- Chapter 2 Assembling East Asian Knowledge Spaces.- Chapter 3 Emotional Geographies of University Officialdom.- Chapter 4 The Cultural Politics of Emplacement.- Chapter 5 'Feeling Regional'.- Chapter 6 Situating Critique and Care: What Kind of Asia?.

About the author

Ravinder K. Sidhu is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Ho Kong Chong is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

Brenda S. A. Yeoh is Raffles Professor of Geography at the National University of Singapore.

Summary

This book investigates why students choose to study in key Asian cities, and how this trend relates to the strategic intent of states and universities to build ‘knowledge economies’ and ‘world-class’ profiles. Drawing on substantial theoretical and empirical research, the authors examine the emotional geographies of East Asian international education, and offer new analytical insights into the relations between emotions, nation and subjectivity. The book challenges Eurocentric views of Asia as a space of volatile nationalist rivalries. By offering richly textured portraits of mobile students, it questions contemporary memes about the utility-maximising Asian learner. This is a thought-provoking text that will appeal to university researchers, academics and students interested in the changing architectures of international education.

Product details

• Authors: H Kong Chong, Ho Kong Chong, Ravinder Sidhu, Ravinder K Sidhu, Ravinder K. Sidhu, Brenda S A Yeoh, Brenda S. A. Yeoh
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030278557
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3027855-7
• No. of pages: 163
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 325 g
• Illustrations: IX, 163 p. 1 illus.
• Series: Mobility & Politics; Mobility & Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Migration, C, Emotion, Education, Political Science, Asia, International Relations, biotechnology, Psychology: emotions, Emotions, Political structure & processes, Migration, immigration & emigration, Political Science and International Studies, International and Comparative Education, Regionalism, Comparative education, International education, Emigration and immigration, Asia—Politics and government, Asian Politics, Governance and Government