Multilingual online academic collaborations as resistance crossing impassable borders

This book details online collaborations between universities in Europe, the USA and Palestine. The chapters recount the challenges and successes of online collaborations which promote academic connections and conversations with the Gaza Strip (Palestine) and forge relationships between individuals,...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fassetta, Giovanna, 1961- editor (editor), Al-Masri, Nazmi, 1963- editor, Phipps, Alison M., editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol, England ; Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania : Multilingual Matters [2020]
Series:Researching Multilingually ; 4
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009872238306719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Prologue. Collaborating under Siege: A WhatsApp Tale
  • Introduction: Can You ‘Here’ Me? Editors’ Reflections on Online Collaborations between the Gaza Strip and the Global North
  • 1 Engineers Operating Multilingually: Reflections on Four Years of Glasgow-Gaza Pre-sessional English Telecollaboration
  • 2 Islamic University of Gaza Internationalization Endeavors at the Level of Postgraduate Programs
  • 3 Exploring Mobile Support for English Language Teachers in a Context of Conflict: Syrian Refugee Teachers in Jordan
  • 4 Motivational Strategies and Online Technologies: Are Palestinian EFL University Students in the Gaza Strip Empowered to be Bilingual?
  • 5 ‘Really Talking’ to Gaza: From Active to Transformative Learning in Distributed Environments and under Highly Pressured Conditions
  • 6 Gaza Teaches Arabic Online: Opportunities, Challenges and Ways Forward
  • 7 (In)articulability of Pain and Trauma: Idioms of Distress in the Gaza Strip
  • 8 The Experience of the Islamic University of Gaza in Cross-border Academic Collaboration: T-MEDA Project as a Case Study
  • 9 From the Kitchen to Gaza: Networked Places and the Collaborative Imagination
  • Afterword. ‘I am Here’: Savouring the ‘Selfie Moments’
  • Index