Challenging the comfort zone: self-discovery, everyday practices and international student mobility to the Global South
Challenging the comfort zone: self-discovery, everyday practices and international student mobility to the Global South
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挑战舒适区：自我发现、日常实践和国际学生向南半球的流动
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2017
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Laura Prazeres
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作者：
Laura Prazeres
摘要 本文通过解析“离开舒适区”自我发现和自我改变的概念，审视短期国际学生的潜在动机。本文利用对在南半球做志愿者和学习的加拿大交换生的半结构化访谈，通过研究舒适和不适的情绪以及日常实践如何对自我发现、归属感、家庭建设和区别产生积极影响，为国际学生流动性的日常和情感地理研究以及更广泛的流动性辩论做出了贡献。它揭示了学生如何沿着全球北/南的国际和富有想象力的边界调整他们的舒适区和非反射性自我的边界。与旅游和流动性研究相反，我认为学生将日常生活和在国外的相对固定性视为一种独特的、反射性的练习。我建议学生们想要将他们的舒适区和“家”感的界限扩展到南半球。
Abstract This paper scrutinises the underlying motivations of short-term international students by unpacking the notion of ‘leaving the comfort zone’ for self-discovery and self-change. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with Canadian exchange students volunteering and studying in the Global South, the paper contributes to scholarship on everyday and emotional geographies of international student mobility and wider debates in mobility by examining how emotions of comfort and discomfort as well as everyday practices are productive for self-discovery, belonging, home-making and distinction. It reveals how students align the boundaries of their comfort zone and an un/reflexive self along the international and imaginative borders of the Global North/South. Contrary to tourism and mobility studies, I argue that students view everyday life and their relative immobility while abroad as both a distinctive and reflexive exercise. I suggest that students want to extend the boundaries of their comfort zone and their sense of ‘home’ to the Global South.