Transcending Self and Other Through Akogare [Desire]: The English Language and the Internationalization of Higher Education in Japan

by Chisato Nonaka

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788921704
• ISBN13: 9781788921701
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"