Globalization, Geography, and the Liberation of Overseas Study

Abstract

Overseas study is an unparalleled method of promoting cross-cultural understanding, an appreciation of difference, and a relational sense of identity. However, U.S. colleges and universities increasingly employ the myth of strong globalization, which purportedly makes the world more uniform, integrated, and interdependent, in order to justify overseas study as a core component of broader internationalization strategies. Notwithstanding the rhetoric of cross-cultural learning, many key players within the enterprise of study abroad fail to recognize the dissonance between the dogma of strong globalization and the practice of overseas study. This article explores the problematic, contradictory discourses of overseas study, and argues that geography is strategically positioned within academia to emerge as a major driving force of a progressive study-abroad initiative.

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