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Between class and nation: international education and the dilemmas of elite belonging in contemporary Egypt
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Language Teaching as Foreign Policy: Japanese Language Teachers in Japan's International Cooperation Volunteer Program
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This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of the role of Japanese as heritage language (JHL) education in the overseas communities of Japanese descent (Nikkei communities) in the contemporary diaspora strategy of the Japanese government. Through the case of a state-sponsored international volunteer program designed to serve Nikkei communities in South America (Nikkei volunteer program), this thesis illustrates how individual subjectivity formed part of a state strategy, mediated through discourses on language. This thesis discusses these processes in which the volunteers became state-sponsored JHL teachers from the perspective of governmentality with a focus on the state. The first section of the thesis illustrates historical shifts in Japan's diaspora strategies. Historically, the Nikkei population has been understood primarily as a population with Japanese ancestry, and thus Japan's support for their linguistic and cultural heritage was emphasized for the sake of community maintenance. Since the 1990s, Japan began to reframe them also as "diplomatic assets" who could "bridge" Japan and their countries of residence. South American Nikkei population's hybrid cultural identity and bilingual language skills in Portuguese or Spanish and Japanese are valued especially in Japan's development cooperation projects in countries in and outside of South America which share those languages. Situated in this context, the official promotion of JHL to the Nikkei population is seen as an effective means of maintaining a "bonding tie" between Japan and the Nikkei "assets" in South America. The second section provides a close examination of one of the key components of the above mentioned process: the training of Japanese language teaching volunteers in the Nikkei volunteer program. Using data collected from in-depth life history interviews and fieldwork, this section illustrates the volunteers' subjectivity shifts in relation to multiple discourses on language, such as English, nihongo-Japanese as a foreign language (JFL), and JHL. The discourses of English and then JFL had an impact on the volunteers' trajectories before they applied for the Nikkei volunteer program. Further transformation occurred in the volunteer training sessions, when they encountered the institutional discourse of JHL and gradually conceptualized their roles and responsibilities as teachers of Japanese as Nikkei's heritage language. ; Ph.D.
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0615; Bilingualism; Foreign policy; Globalization; Japan; Language teaching; Neoliberalism
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/69470
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Out of joint: Neoliberalism, narrative, and the gothic quest for place in the dialectical west ...
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Out of joint: Neoliberalism, narrative, and the gothic quest for place in the dialectical west ; Doctor of Philosophy
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Visions of Sovereignty: Indigenous Narratives of Resistance in a Neoliberal Age
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Smyth, Brendan M.. - : University of Alberta. Department of English and Film Studies., 2013
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Travelers, teachers, or altruists? ; a multi-sited ethnographic study of English language voluntourism
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Paradigmatic recrudescence: Classical realism in the age of globalization
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In: UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones (2009)
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