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The Cultural Politics of Emplacement

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This chapter shifts the book’s focus to international students, key agents in forming and sustaining East Asia’s knowledge spatialities. We examine their felt experiences of spaces and places as a basis to uncover the sociabilities of emplacement enabled by dynamics encounters in laboratories, tutorials, lectures spaces, student residences and neighbourhoods. The chapter offers an analysis of the politics of belonging seen through the interplay of communication, friendship and learning encounters. Drawing on their face-to-face and technology-mediated encounters, we show how student emotions are mobilised to produce, and alternatively resist, cosmopolitan sociabilities, including those that reconstruct ‘home’.

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Notes

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    For a cross-cultural philosophical examination of friendship, see edited volumes by Risseeuw and van Raalte (2017) and Leaman (2014).

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    This is a gendered account of friendship between men privileged in their educated status, and its limitations should be taken into consideration.

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    Ojiisan is the Japanese for grandfather; Obaasan refers to grandmother.

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    BBS or Bulletin Board System is the preferred term over Forum on Chinese websites.

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  1. School of Education, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia

    Ravinder K. Sidhu

  2. Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore

    Ho Kong Chong

  3. Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore

    Brenda S. A. Yeoh

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Sidhu, R.K., Kong Chong, H., Yeoh, B.S.A. (2020). The Cultural Politics of Emplacement. In: Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia. Mobility & Politics. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27856-4_4

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