https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu Which scenes, quotes, or stories stuck with you the most? What questions do you have for the author? How has this book deepened your understanding of belonging at an international school? en-us 2021-03-27 10:50:19 UTC 2022-01-11 02:25:17 UTC hello@padlet.com nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359670788 “Students cited name changing as a potent example of the process of accepting an identity change. Sometimes the students themselves initiated the name change, and sometimes it was imposed.”]]> 2021-03-27 10:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359670788 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359671076 “... the contest for the top spot was a competition between the cultural capital of the Western students and the economic capital of students from the local elite. Those who are socialized in Western ways have the advantage of being familiar with the culture of the staff; Indonesian-speaking students counter this by making a show of their economic capital.”]]> 2021-03-27 10:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359671076 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359671414 “proximity to the local compromises the international feel of the school”]]> 2021-03-27 10:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359671414 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359671856 “The parents from the local population were mostly mothers, while the foreign parents, who were usually from a more developed country and white, were fathers. This was typical also of cross-cultural couples in Jakarta and among parents of TIS students. Even when the mother was not Indonesian, she would often be from a less-developed country than the father.”]]> 2021-03-27 10:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359671856 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359672330 “(Tim and Maura’s)... positionality shifts depending on whether they have more or less Western capital compared to the dominant majority in the given context. Their racially ambiguous physical appearance affects the way others perceive and treat them as well as how secure they feel in different contexts.”]]> 2021-03-27 10:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359672330 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359672609 “Transnational youth, like Levi, are not the embodied beacon of a 'happy hybridity': they embody the burden of social hierarchies that reflect national and transnational economic hierarchies (Lo 2000: 153).”]]> 2021-03-27 10:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359672609 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359672938 “The dominant culture has the power to define the rules of the game, while others must either play by those rules or contest them in their attempts to decrease their sense of marginalization.”]]> 2021-03-27 10:58:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359672938 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359675830 "'Being international' is not just an ideal; it is a strategic positioning of oneself within a complex intersection of hierarchies.”]]> 2021-03-27 11:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359675830 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359676368 “Those with Western capital construct themselves as international while simultaneously reinforcing the dominant position of Western capital by contrasting themselves with the cosmopolitan blackness, so to speak, of the non-English-speaking language groups.”]]> 2021-03-27 11:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359676368 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359677949 “cosmopolitanism is institutionalized as cultural capital in all its diverse forms.”]]> 2021-03-27 11:04:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359677949 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359678289 “To be international, students had to have what I collectively refer to as (Western) cosmopolitan cultural and social capital. The ideology of being international was a Eurocentric form of cosmopolitanism, reflecting the contemporary ‘global currency of whiteness’”]]> 2021-03-27 11:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359678289 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359678743 “Some students were favorably positioned to acquire cosmopolitan capital because they were fluent in English and had acquired Western capital through their home or school environment.”]]> 2021-03-27 11:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359678743 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359679163 “The school’s ideology of being international promotes an idea of social cohesion through which a global community was imagined, but it also reproduces both national and transnational class structures through the privileging of Western capital.”]]> 2021-03-27 11:05:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359679163 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359679674 “Whether or not someone is cosmopolitan lies in the eyes of the beholder.”]]> 2021-03-27 11:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359679674 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359682859 “The school’s… ideology promoted a deracialized, colorblind view of the world, but its cosmopolitan practices are dependent on the visibility of racial differences. The cultural sameness of those with Western capital was rendered invisibly by their racial diversity.”]]> 2021-03-27 11:09:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359682859 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359683038 “… this celebration of diversity as ‘happy hybridity,’ which pays little heed to the ‘tension, conflict, or contradiction’ inherent in intercultural encounters and thereby ‘masks and perpetuates structural inequalities.’”]]> 2021-03-27 11:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359683038 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359683472 “The school’s ideology of being international universalizes a Western construct of cosmopolitanism. It created a hierarchy of cosmopolitan practices. Students completed to be ‘international’ within the confines of the dominant form of cosmopolitanism as represented by the school’s ideology of being international. Alternative forms of cosmopolitanism were relegated to an inferior position by virtue of not being recognized as ‘international.’”]]> 2021-03-27 11:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359683472 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359684448 “… being cosmopolitan, in this Western sense, is an ideal that has to be constantly desired and sought after, though it can never be reached. It is ‘by feeling qualified to yearn for such a position’ that people are identified as cosmopolitan.”]]> 2021-03-27 11:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359684448 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359685021 “The way transnational youth engage with the ideology of being international reveals the complex nature of the whiteness of being international, as well as the way relations of power are reproduced as patterns within a pattern like fractals. More significantly, this study of transnational youth highlights the diversity of cosmopolitan practices.”]]> 2021-03-27 11:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359685021 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359685498 “This book has analyzed the complex set of factors that make transnational youth a heterogeneous group, but an exploration of their differences, it must be remembered, was made possible by first acknowledging their shared experience of liminality in their transnational upbringing.”]]> 2021-03-27 11:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359685498 nayoungweaver https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359686199 Maura: “we all kind of have a collective culture together.”]]> 2021-03-27 11:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359686199 https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359800021 2021-03-27 13:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359800021 graves5g1 https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359804707 Sexual desirability is embedded within social hierarchies.]]> 2021-03-27 13:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nayoungweaver/bookclubz3DanauTanu/wish/1359804707