Culture and international imagination in Southeast Asia

Thompson, Eric C.; Thianthai, Chulanee; Hidayana, Irwan Martua

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.10.011

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“…It offers a departure from recent work by showing that students are influenced by a variety of different media, such as literature, television, advertisements (see Thompson et al . ) and word of mouth, when choosing their study destination, mobilising this information through their imaginative geographies. This operates not only at the level of the UK as a whole, but has distinct regional nuances indicating that students are highly selective in terms of where they choose to study – much more so than recognised in the current literature.…”

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Why place matters: imaginative geography and international student mobility

Beech

2014

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This paper develops and extends the recent work on international student mobility by expanding beyond the traditional push-pull factors of migration to show that students are influenced by more than the economic in their decision of where to study. It uses original data collected through interviews and focus groups with 38 higher education international students at three UK universities located in Aberdeen, Belfast and Nottingham to show that when students choose to study overseas they are influenced by diverse perceptions of place that they have constructed over long periods of time. These imaginative geographies are the direct result of exposure to a range of different media, as well as stories relayed to them from members of their social networks. This paper demonstrates that students studying in Scotland and Northern Ireland appear to have highly developed imaginative geographies in relation to their chosen study sites. By contrast, international students studying in England tended to have little conception of their chosen place of study. In this case the powerful imaginative geographies that had been instilled within them focused on London, overshadowing their understanding of their chosen study site.

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Why place matters: imaginative geography and international student mobility

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2014

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“…Desbiens et al, 2004; Dowler and Sharp, 2001; Gilmartin and Kofman, 2004; Hyndman, 2004; Long, 2006; Secor, 2001; Staeheli and Nagel, 2006; Massaro and Williams, 2013; Pain and Staeheli, 2014) provide us with a wealth of other tools to further explore cases like these, including the relationship between embodied culture, everyday life, and politics (e.g. among many others Campbell, 2007; Kong, 2007; Marston, 2003; Mitchell, 1991; Painter, 2006; Thompson et al, 2007), ethnographic approaches to political geography (in particular see Dodds, 2001; Megoran, 2006) and, promisingly, increasing attention to questions of sexual citizenship (notably Bell and Binnie, 2006). In sum, demographic decline puts the concerns of demography and political geography in a state of urgent collision, and the expanding work on embodied, gendered, and intimate geopolitics presents a wide and growing range of tools for thinking about demographic transition in the 21st century.…”

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confidence: 99%

Baby bust

Robbins

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2016

Progress in Human Geography

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Despite the persistence of Malthusian arguments that human population will grow to outstrip the Earth’s capacity and resources, current demography actually foretells the impending end of growth in the next half century. We are approaching a global baby bust. What does this mean for global political labor economies, regional resource economics, and local struggles over gender and power? This paper concludes, through a survey of current research, that geographers already have the conceptual equipment to answer these enormously important questions. We further argue that the fundamental underpinnings of much contemporary economic and social theory, having been developed in times of rapid population growth and labor surplus, must be reconsidered as we enter a period of different material conditions. Reviewing recent developments in population geography and feminist geopolitics, global geographies of labor and aging, and emerging patterns of resource intensification and disintensification, we suggest that – if infused with an explicit political economy – attending to the baby bust can show the way forward to help revitalize our understanding of bodies and materiality in critical and human geography.

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“…From the research in Thailand and comparable research elsewhere (see Thompson, 2006;Thompson et al, 2007;Thompson and Zhang, 2006), we can infer a complex interplay of forces from deep historical trends (for instance, in the description of Indonesia as "spice islands" and the very establishment of "countries" as a broadly shared domain) to recent fashions and the latest international news. It would appear that they can shift substantially from one 56 Chulanee Thianthai and Eric C. Thompson generation to the next, as evidenced by the almost complete irrelevance of Cold War geopolitics to students who were not yet in their teens when that international architecture collapsed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most of the results we have found suggest that the perceptions we report are developed primarily over the span of a particular generation, through recurrent exposure to ideas about countries by way of multiple, mutually reinforcing mass media, education and the like (cf. Thompson et al, 2007).…”

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“…Consensus analysis of the data we collected, for example, shows that the responses from Thailand score higher on consensus among respondents than those from any other nation -an indication of a strong, singular perception of the region among Thai students relative to those from other nations (cf. Thompson, 2006;Thompson et al, 2007).…”

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