ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I introduce the context of my work as an academic, connecting my experience with broader conceptualisations of internationalisation and globalisation as they relate to higher education. This chapter expands further on the discomfort that I felt on my first encounters with this landscape – alluded to in the Prologue – providing glimpses of the subsequent links I made between that discomfort and issues of colonialism and imperialism (Biggs, 2003; Devos, 2003).
