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Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia

Emotional Geographies of Knowledge Spaces

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  • © 2020

Overview

  • Examines intra-Asian student mobility in the context of university-driven processes of globalisation in Asia
  • Focuses on mobile students who are attracted by the strategic global visions of institutional policymakers and who choose to study in an Asian university
  • Uses emotions as a tool of analysis to explore how and why students develop a distinctly regional political consciousness which includes a sense of regional solidarity

Part of the book series: Mobility & Politics (MPP)

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This book investigates why students choose to study in key Asian cities, and how this trend relates to the strategic intent of states and universities to build ‘knowledge economies’ and ‘world-class’ profiles. Drawing on substantial theoretical and empirical research, the authors examine the emotional geographies of East Asian international education, and offer new analytical insights into the relations between emotions, nation and subjectivity. The book challenges Eurocentric views of Asia as a space of volatile nationalist rivalries. By offering richly textured portraits of mobile students, it questions contemporary memes about the utility-maximising Asian learner. This is a thought-provoking text that will appeal to university researchers, academics and students interested in the changing architectures of international education.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Education, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

    Ravinder K. Sidhu

  • Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore

    Ho Kong Chong

  • Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore

    Brenda S. A. Yeoh

About the authors

Ravinder K. Sidhu is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Ho Kong Chong is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.



Brenda S. A. Yeoh is Raffles Professor of Geography at the National University of Singapore.

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