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  • The Paradox of Difference

    Moving Beyond Border Crossing, Translanguaging, and Unit Thinking

    by Neriko Musha Doerr ...
    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 thinking, it explores how perceived differences emerge fluidly in specific contexts. Through critical ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Augmented Reality of Pokémon Go

    Chronotopes, Moral Panic, and Other Complexities

    by Neriko Musha Doerr, Debra J. Occhi, Anne Allison, Paul Manning, Elle Santry, Bonnie Nardi, University of California, Irvine and author of My Life as Nig ...
    What happens when a group of people see things that others do not and begin acting accordingly? The Augmented Reality of Pokémon GO: Chronotopes, Moral Panic, and Other Complexities explores this question by examining what happened after Pokémon GO, a smartphone augmented reality game, was released in July, 2016. The game overlaid the world of Pokémon onto the “real” physical world, drawing 30 ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Global Education Effect and Japan

    Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices

    Edited by Neriko Doerr ...
    Series series Politics of Education in Asia
    This volume investigates the "global education effect"—the impact of global education initiatives on institutional and individual practices and perceptions—with a special focus on the dynamics of border construction, recognition, subversion, and erasure regarding "Japan". The Japanese government’s push for global education has taken shape mainly in the form of English-medium instruction programs ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Post-Unit Thinking Pedagogies

    Teaching to Live beyond Categories

    by Neriko Musha Doerr ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers alternative theoretical approaches and pedagogies that challenge the worldview that divides things/people into bounded categories/units perceived to be internally homogeneous, what it calls “unit thinking” built on the nation-state ideology. Unit thinking is problematic not only because it is inaccurate but also because it encourages an imposition of the “ideal model” (e.g., the ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Transforming Study Abroad

    A Handbook

    by Neriko Musha Doerr ...
    Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including “the global/national,” “culture,” “native speaker,” “immersion,” and “host society.” Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology, political science, educational studies, linguistics, and narrative studies, it suggests ways to incorporate ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus

    Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

    by Neriko Musha Doerr ...
    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 newer concepts: “tinted glasses”, through which we see the world; “unit-thinking”, which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and “coherants”, which help fragmented experiences cohere into something intelligible. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Romance of Crossing Borders

    Studying and Volunteering Abroad

    Edited by Neriko Musha Doerr, Hannah Davis Taïeb ...
    What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? Often the answer is romance – the romance of landscapes, people, languages, the very sense of border-crossing – and longing for liberation, attraction to the unknown, yearning to make a difference. This volume explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Heritage, Nationhood, and Language

    Migrants with Connections to Japan

    Edited by Neriko Doerr ...
    The notion of "heritage" has become one of the global tropes in recent years. At the heart of heritage politics are three questions: what heritage is, who decides what it is, and for whom is the decision made. However, existing work on heritage language has rarely tackled these questions, assuming that teaching children of migrants their "heritage language" empowers them.This book challenges this ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Politics of Incompetence

    Learning Language, Relations of Power, and Daily Resistance

    by Theresa Austin, Cori Jakubiak, Keiko Konoeda, Yuri Kumagai, Neriko Musha Doerr ...
    “Incompetence” is not an objective state lacking competence nor a kind of deficiency that needs to be filled. Rather, it is a constructed state that is productive, working in tandem with its opposite, “competence.” Perception of incompetence/competence works as what Michel Foucault (1977) calls a technology of “normalization” that pushes individuals to aspire to follow a shared norm, while ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Study Abroad and the Quest for an Anti-Tourism Experience

    by John J. Bodinger de Uriarte, Elisa Ascione, Gareth Barkin, Melissa S. Biggs, Jennifer Coffman, Neriko Musha Doerr, Aaron Andrew Greer, Aaron M. Lampman, Annie Nguyen, Miroslava Prazak0, Kenneth Schweitzer1, Katharine Serio2, Lisa Breglia4, Don Schweitzer5, Dr. Michael A. Di Giovine6 ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
    With contributions from anthropologists and cultural theorists, Study Abroad and the Quest for an Anti-Tourism Experienceexamines the culture and cultural implications of student travel. Drawing on rich case studies from the Arctic to Africa, Asia to the Americas, this impressive array of experts focuses on the challenges and ethical implications of student engagement, service and volunteering, ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

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  • The Study of Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

    by David Dunkerley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Organizations
    In this introduction for undergraduate students, the author surveys the development of the study of organizations from an historical point of view. He studies organizations within the framework of the main schools of thought, looks into the various levels of analysis involved, and considers the influence of the environment on the organization, particularly that of technology and of other ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education

    Edited by Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Jamila Lee-Johnson, Ashley N. Gaskew ...
    Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education offers a path-breaking explanation of how critical theories can be used within the analysis of qualitative data to inform research processes, such as data collection, analysis, and interpretation. This contributed volume offers examples of qualitative data analysis techniques and exemplars of empirical studies that employ critical theory ... Read more

    $66.99 USD