‘Affective eduscapes’: the case of Indian students within Australian international higher education

In this article we examine the financial, cultural and governmental structures that frame international education as an important part of Appudurai's ethnoscapes of globalization. Developing the idea of affective eduscapes we analyse the lived experiences of Indian students. Drawing on interview material, we deconstruct the idea of ‘the Indian student’, and any singular experience of international higher education. Keywords: globalization of higher educationaffective eduscapesIndian students Notes 1. ‘Political sensations’, Under fire, http://underfire.eyebeam.org/?q=node/541 (accessed June 1, 2010). 2. The agents were interviewed over the telephone. 3. All interviewees have been given pseudonyms of common Indian names regardless of region so readers should take care not to draw inferences from these names. 4. The major institutions in Adelaide include The Marathi Manadal (Centre for Marathis, people from Maharashtra), Adelaide Kannada Sangh (Association of People from Karnataka), Adelaide Tamil Association Inc (for the people of Tamil Naidu), North Indians Associations of South Australia, Adelaide Metropolitan Malyalee Association (for people from Kerala) and the Adelaide Gujarati Association (for people from Gujarat). 5. We will not name individual universities.