The Affective Assemblage of Internationalisation in Japanese Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Morley, Louise; Roberts, Paul; Ota, Hiroshi
Titel	The Affective Assemblage of Internationalisation in Japanese Higher Education
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 82 (2021) 4, S.765-781 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Morley, Louise)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-020-00593-4
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Global Approach; Higher Education; Universities; Politics of Education; Affective Behavior; College Faculty; Doctoral Students; Faculty Mobility; Student Mobility; Language Teachers; Neoliberalism; Foreign Nationals; Gender Issues; Job Security; Power Structure; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Globales Denken; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; University; Universität; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Fakultät; Doctoral studies; Doctorate studies; Student; Students; Doctoral candidate; Doktorandenprogramm; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Doktorand; Doktorandin; Mobility; Mobilität; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Ausländer; Ausländerin; Geschlechterfrage; Arbeitsplatzsicherheit
Abstract	Positive attributes stick to higher education internationalisation, and it is a policy paradigm with performative effects. Internationalisation draws on imagined virtuous flows of knowledge production and exchange, and is presented as an assemblage of detraditionalisation, expansiveness and epistemic and cultural opportunity for individuals, organisations and nation states. Policies target bodies, minds and affect, yet are presented as an unquestionable good in an imagined genderneutral, borderless, meritocratic and benign global knowledge economy. This paper explores the affective economy of internationalisation drawing upon interview data gathered in fifteen private, five national and eight public universities in Japan with thirty-four migrant academics and thirteen international doctoral researchers. We aim to contribute to internationalisation theory by exploring the sticky micropolitics of internationalisation in relation to affective assemblages, and how the gendered, racialised, linguistic and epistemic inequalities constituting academic mobility are frequently disqualified from discourse. Our discussion includes consideration of the Japanese policy context, the concept of affective assemblages, navigating gender regimes, precarity and linguistic imperialism. We conclude that the immaterial or affective labour that is required to unstick, install and maintain an internationalised academic identity and navigate the translations and antagonisms from everyday encounters with difference is substantially under-estimated. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01