Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Zizek’s notion of fe... more

Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study... more

What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? Often the answer is romance -... more

This book investigates the ways in which Japanese ’language’ and ’culture’ have come to be standardi... more

The "native speaker" is often thought of as an ideal language user with "a complete and possibly inn... more

This volume offers ethnographic accounts of the processes through which space can promote or hinder ... more

Language standardization is problematic because it imposes the dominant group’s linguistic variety a... more

"Incompetence" is not a deficit but a productive force that generates knowledge, subject positions, ... more

This volume explores "performative linguistic space", namely a space which ushers or hinders linguis... more

This volume examines the complexities created by Pokémon GO--the smartphone augmented reality game--... more

What happens when a group of people see things that others do not and begin acting accordingly? The ... more

The notion of "heritage" has become one of the global tropes in recent years. At the heart of herita... more

Heritage language education is a relatively new field developed as "heritage" has become an importan... more