Reconfiguring Vietnam : global encounters, translocal lifeworlds / Minh T.N. Nguyen and Kirsten W. Endres [editors].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nguyen, Minh T. N., editor.

Endres, Kirsten W., editor.

Series:

Yale Southeast Asia studies ; 70.

Monograph 70/Yale Southeast Asia Studies ; 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam--Economic conditions--1975-.

Vietnam.

Vietnam--Economic policy--1975-.

Vietnam--Social conditions--1975-.

Social change--Vietnam.

Social change.

Physical Description:

xii, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, [2024]

Summary:

Vietnam has never been more global. The movement of people, ideas, practices, and institutions into and out of the country has resulted in extensive transnational networks and global fields of exchange. Through fine-grained ethnographic analyses, this book examines how these processes of economic and social transformation affect individual and communal lives. The contributors also explore how Vietnamese today navigate increasingly translocal lifeworlds characterized by ever more complex mobility trajectories, economic systems and networks, and communities of practice.

Contents:

Section I. Economic activities. Introduction. Informality, precarity, and desire: frictions of the contemporary Vietnamese global economy / Ann Marie Leshkowich ; 1. Precarity and opportunities: how Vietnamese e-traders navigate between imaginaries and lived reality in Germany / Jessica Steinman ; 2. "Dream, start more, move fast!": entrepreneurship, sustainable development, and imagined futures in Vietnam / Esther Horat ; 3. Consumer finance in Vietnam: The de/personalization of credit and debt collection / Nicolas Lainez, Trinh Phan Khanh, and Bui Thi Thu Doai ; 4. Translocality, labor mobility, and mommodity production in Northern Vietnamese rural livelihoods / Tuan Anh Nguyen and Minh T.N. Nguyen

Section II. Gender and private life. Introduction. Private lives on the move: transnational migration, marriage, and work / Helle Rydstrom ; 5. Cross-border marriages: expectations and translocal lifeworldsof Vietnamese brides in Wanwei (Guangxi, China) / Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham ; 6. Sexuality, masculinity, and transnational migration: the case of male Vietnamese returnees from Japan / An Huy Tran ; 7. More than "left-over water": Vietnamese brides and the shifting obligations of transnational families / Phung Su

Section III: Culture and identity. Introduction. Hybridization and heterodoxy: Vietnamese culture and identity in the global cultural flow / Hoang Cam ; 8. Digital performances of selves: entrepreneurship and social movements in hip hop / Sandra Kurfurst ; 9. The "west" as the qualitied international: its imaginaries at the urban workplace in Vietnam / Kim Anh Dang ; 10. A divided sangha in the global field of Vietnamese Buddhism / Allison Truitt

Section IV: Class and consumption. Introduction. Almost comfortable: anxious wealth and uncertain social distinction in the market socialist economy / Erik Harms ; 11. Consumption and global connections in Vietnam: new middle classes and changing everyday practices under consumer socialism / Arve Hansen ; 12. A middle-class suitcase: unpacking domestic tourism in Vietnam / Emmanuelle Peyvel ; 13. Migration, mobility, and middle-class aspirations among Vietnamese migrants in Moscow / Lan Anh Hoang ; 14. Afterword: Lifeworld reconfiguration and sociocultural resilience / Hy V. Luong.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781732610248

173261024X

9781732610255

1732610258

OCLC:

1515058199