Transcending Self and Other Through Akogare [Desire], livre ebook

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.

Acknowledgements      

Abstract              

Foreword           

Table of Contents           

List of Tables     

List of Figures   

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Akogare and My Study Participants  

Chapter 3. Akogare in Academic Literature and the Akogare Theoretical Framework    

Chapter 4. Methodology             

Chapter 5. Akogare and Gender               

Chapter 6. Akogare and Precarious “Japan”        

Chapter 7. Akogare and Japanese Higher Education Today           

Chapter 8. Conclusion and Future Implications

Appendix

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