Full Description
What sets study abroad apart from tourism? Both study abroad and mass tourism are experiencing rapid growth in the international market—with study abroad increasingly serving as an integral component of the "university experience"—and both call on the same sorts of processes and infrastructures. Yet study abroad promoters often promise that student travel will not be a tourist experience but something deeper, more educational and engaging—an antidote to typical tourism. But as study abroad becomes both democratized and bureaucratized in the modern neoliberal university, what was once considered a cosmopolitan "anti-tourism" experience has progressively taken on the trappings of modern mass tourism: shorter, pre-programed, standardized and heavily-marketed. With contributions from anthropologists and cultural theorists who have deep ties to study abroad programs, Study Abroad and the Quest for an Anti-Tourism Experience examines 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 challenges and ethical implications of student engagement, service and volunteering, immersion, student-faculty research collaborations in the field, local community impacts, and the impetus to craft a new generation of active, engaged global citizens. This volume is a must-read for students interested in study abroad, practitioners designing high-impact educational experiences away from their host institutions, and scholars who wish to explore the interrelationship between study abroad, tourism and anti-tourism movements.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Asking Questions about Study Abroad and Tourism
Michael A. Di Giovine and John Bodinger de Uriarte
"Doing Good" and Doing It Quickly in East African Study Abroad Programs
Jennifer Coffman and Miroslava Prazak
Two Weeks to Global Citizenship?: The Problems, Paradoxes, and Successes of Running a Short-Term Travel Course
Aaron Andrew Greer and Don D. Schweitzer
Safe-Guarding, Social-Pricing, and Labeling: Technologies of Border Construction and Discourses of Border Crossing in Study Abroad/Away
Neriko Doerr
The Imperative of Access in Short-Term Study Abroad
Gareth Barkin
Forbidden Learning
Aaron Lampmann and Schweitzer
Weekending Daring: Manufacturing the "Discomfort Zone" and Making the Study-Away Self
John Bodinger de Uriarte
Missions and Discomfort
Catherine Serio
Schooling Taste: Culinary Tourism, Study Away, and Food
Melissa Biggs
Teaching and Learning Food and Sustainability in Italy: Betwixt and Beyond Touristic Consumptions
Elisa Ascione
Reflection: Finding Home, Identity, and Meaning in Study Abroad Programs Targeted to Heritage Students
Annie Nguyen
Between Tourism and Anti-Tourism: Ethics and the Study Abroad Experience
Michael A. Di Giovine
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
