Description
Book SynopsisWhat sets study abroad apart from tourism? Both study abroad and mass tourism are experiencing rapid growth in the international marketwith study abroad increasingly serving as an integral component of the university experienceand 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 engagingan 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. Drawin
Trade ReviewThis book is an innovative text contrasting tourism and anti-tourism in subtle and unexpected ways. It was a mind-blowing book for me!
-- Edward M. Bruner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
(This edited collection) draws on a range of abstract and complex concepts but does so in an assured and clear way. It makes the complex simple, but never simplistic. . . Conceptually it draws on themes from anthropology and the interdisciplinary field of tourism studies and publications on service learning and study abroad. As such, the book . . . (will) be a significant addition to the literature.
-- Jim Butcher, Canterbury Christ Church University
Table of ContentsList 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
