Dépaysement

GLOSSARY

Pronounced, “dee-pace-mon”. A French term to describe the disoriented feeling that comes from being in a foreign or different place. ‘Pays’ translates to ‘country’ and ‘dépayser’ means ‘to disorientate’. Hence, some may refer to this feeling as ‘decountrification’, or the feeling of being an outsider.

Reference:

Barra, M. (2020, May 3). Why you need to experience the “depaysement” once in your life. https://medium.com/publishous/why-you-need-to-experience-the-depaysement-once-in-your-life-1cb981e5dcd6

Kayes, C., Allen, N., & Self, N. (2017). How leaders learn from experience in extreme situations: The case of the US military in Takur Ghar, Afghanistan. In Leadership in extreme situations (pp. 277-294). Cham: Springer International Publishing.