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Waste and wealth : an ethnography of labor, value, and morality in a Vietnamese recycling economy / Minh T.N. Nguyen.
Penn Museum Library HD9975.V53 R43 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nguyen, Minh T. N., author.
- Series:
- Issues of globalization
- Issues of globalization : case studies in contemporary anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Recycling industry--Social aspects--Vietnam--Red River Delta.
- Recycling industry.
- Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects--Vietnam--Red River Delta.
- Refuse and refuse disposal.
- Informal sector (Economics)--Social aspects--Vietnam--Red River Delta.
- Informal sector (Economics).
- Migration, Internal--Social aspects--Vietnam--Red River Delta.
- Migration, Internal.
- Ethnology--Vietnam--Red River Delta.
- Ethnology.
- Migration, Internal--Social aspects.
- Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- Vietnam--Red River Delta.
- Vietnam.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 208 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This ethnography examines questions of value, labor, and morality underlining the translocal waste networks in Spring District, Vietnam. Engaging with waste as an economic category of global significance, this book provides an account of migrant laborers' complex negotiations with political economic forces to build their economic, social, and moral life from their marginalized position. It thereby makes visible how women and men seek to construct viable identities and meaningful lives in the face of stigmatization, insecurity, and precarity. It makes an important contribution to global studies of informalized economies and post-socialist transformations, adding to knowledge about how the forces of globalization blend with local historical-cultural dynamics to shape economic and moral lives"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Mobility, networks and gendered householding
- Labor, economy and urban space
- Uncertainty, ambiguity and the ethic of risk-taking
- Mobility, moral discourses and the anxiety of care
- Rural entrepreneurship, local development and social aspirations
- Money and consumption : gendered desires, class matters
- An exemplary person, the poor and the limits of remaking
- Conclusion : the political economy of remaking.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190692605
- 019069260X
- OCLC:
- 1042082075
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