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Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus
Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious to offer new concepts: “tinted glasses”, through which we see the world; “unit-thinking”, which renders the world as consisting of dis...
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Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus
Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious to offer new concepts: “tinted glasses”, through which we see the world; “unit-thinking”, which renders the world as consisting of dis...
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Linguistic Counter-Standardization
Language standardization is problematic because it imposes the dominant group’s linguistic variety as the only correct one and promotes the idea of unit thinking, i.e., seeing the world as consisting of bounded, internally homogeneous units. This volume examines intentional practices to subvert s...
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Meaningful Inconsistencies
School differentiates students-and provides differential access to various human and material resources-along a range of axes: from elected subjects and academic "achievement" to ethnicity, age, gender, or the language they speak. These categorizations, affected throughout the world by neoliber...
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Performative Linguistic Space
This volume explores "performative linguistic space", namely a space which ushers or hinders linguistic practices. Space is made productive as a result of individuals who bring linguistic politics from diverse spaces into new ones. By moving away from the notions of discrete units of language and...
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The Native Speaker Concept
The "native speaker" is often thought of as an ideal language user with "a complete and possibly innate competence in the language" which is perceived as being bounded and fixed to a homogeneous speech community and linked to a nation-state. Despite recent works that challenge its empirical ac...
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The Paradox of Difference
Sociocultural environments prompt us to notice and mark certain differences over others. This book investigates five paradoxes in the discourses and practices around such differences: the paradox of mixing, standardization, narrative, proximity, and tolerance. Drawing on the notion of unit thin...
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The Romance of Crossing Borders
Explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. Sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves. Explains how these structures of feeling relate to broader social and economic forces.
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The Romance of Crossing Borders
Explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. Sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves. Explains how these structures of feeling relate to broader social and economic forces.
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Transforming Study Abroad
An accessible introduction of current theoretical debates on common study abroad concepts (“culture,” “global citizen,” “immersion,” “host family,” etc.) for study abroad practitioners. A myth-buster of common study abroad discourses. Concrete suggestions for how to incorporate theoretic...
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Transforming Study Abroad
An accessible introduction of current theoretical debates on common study abroad concepts (“culture,” “global citizen,” “immersion,” “host family,” etc.) for study abroad practitioners. A myth-buster of common study abroad discourses. Concrete suggestions for how to incorporate theoretic...
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