Between Memory and Desire: Gender and the remembrance of war in<i>doi moi</i>Vietnam

Werner, Jayne

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“…In this gender categorization, it is argued, the qualities of nurturer and provider position the Vietnamese woman as solemn caretaker of the country. Sacrifice is not related to subservience but to power (Rydstrom ; Werner ). Vietnam is to be reassured by the stable, moral, and pace‐setting agenda of the country's women.…”

Section: Chúc Sc Khóe (“To Good Health”): Whiteness and Masculinity Imentioning

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Rethinking Whiteness and Masculinity in Geography: Drinking Alcohol in the Field in Vietnam

Gillen

2015

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This paper evaluates the spatial politics of fieldwork in Vietnam in order to think through the connections between whiteness, masculinity, and geography. In drawing attention to how the consumption of alcohol underwrites daily activities in Vietnam, as well as fieldwork activities, I show that research ethics are underpinned by unique spatial contexts that do not conform to conventional accounts of masculinity and whiteness in the global North. I make three interrelated arguments. First, I argue that debates in geography about whiteness and masculinity must be understood alongside fieldwork experiences in the global South. Second, I invite geographers to think through how research ethics are shaped by spatially contingent productions of whiteness and masculinity. Lastly, I challenge geographers to keep pace with how disruptive categories like whiteness and masculinity are produced outside of the global North.

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Section: Chúc Sc Khóe (“To Good Health”): Whiteness and Masculinity Imentioning

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Rethinking Whiteness and Masculinity in Geography: Drinking Alcohol in the Field in Vietnam

Gillen

2015

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“…Such dynamics have motivated controversies in the northern part of the country over public acts and sites of commemoration, such as in museums (Tai 2001b), in cinema (Bradley 2001;Werner 2006), in fiction (Werner 2006), and in funerals (Malarney 1996(Malarney , 2001. Such dynamics have motivated controversies in the northern part of the country over public acts and sites of commemoration, such as in museums (Tai 2001b), in cinema (Bradley 2001;Werner 2006), in fiction (Werner 2006), and in funerals (Malarney 1996(Malarney , 2001.…”

Section: The Gendered Ghosts Of War Memoriesmentioning

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“…of this article, I locate gendered accounts of the Bến Thaǹh conflict within a broader preoccupation in Vietnam with gender roles and relations in a time of rapid socioeconomic transformation (see, e.g., Barry 1996;Drummond and Rydstrøm 2004;Leshkowich 2005Leshkowich , 2006Luong 2003;Pettus 2003;Taylor and Bousquet 2005;Werner 2005;Werner and Bélanger 2002). Invoking popular stereotypes of both women and traders, cadres and market management officials referred to stallholders as "sister petty traders" (các chị em tiểu thương) who were weak, ignorant, and prone to disorder and hence in need of management's paternalistic structure and guidance.…”

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Wandering Ghosts of Late Socialism: Conflict, Metaphor, and Memory in a Southern Vietnamese Marketplace

Leshkowich

2008

J of Asian Stud

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In the late 1990s, a marketplace trader in Hồ Chí Minh City reported being plagued by wandering ghosts. The postwar Vietnamese landscape teems with angry spirits who died violently without descendents to honor them, but the trader's wandering ghosts were living: male market officials who demanded that merchants, most of them women, pay a fee for use rights to their stalls. Examining the conflict that ensued, this article argues that the wandering ghosts metaphor aptly captures the bitter struggles over resources and status that have accompanied late socialist economic reforms. More subtly, the metaphor also alludes to lingering wartime animosities. Market officials supported the victors, whereas many traders sided with the losers. Although daily interactions have intersubjectively reworked these tensions so that they seem instead to reflect gender differences, “ghosts” inevitably emerge: odd fragments of memory that wander homeless in the wake of social and individual efforts to render the past coherent.Most traders have paid up simply to avoid the market management boarde's harassment. It's money sacrificed to appease the wandering ghosts[tiền thí cô hồn].—Bến Thành market trader, Hồ Chí Minh City

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“…Similar to observations made by Anne Leshkowich (2008) on the experiences of small traders in Hồ Chí Minh City, past relations still have a bearing on the current life of Bahnar individuals. This reflects what Jayne Werner (2006) has identified as a genealogy of current tensions. Local people told me that in mountainous areas such as Sa Thầy, most people (mainly Jarai) supported the revolutionary cause during the war, whereas the people living in the city of Kon Tum near American and Republic of Vietnam military camps had 'few experiences of support for the revolution'.…”

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‘The Red Seedlings of the Central Highlands’: Social Relatedness and Political Integration of Select Ethnic Minority Groups in Post-War Vietnam

Nguyen¹

2016

Connected and Disconnected in Viet Nam: Remaking Social Relations in a Post-Socialist Nation

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Between Memory and Desire: Gender and the remembrance of war indoi moiVietnam

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Rethinking Whiteness and Masculinity in Geography: Drinking Alcohol in the Field in Vietnam

Rethinking Whiteness and Masculinity in Geography: Drinking Alcohol in the Field in Vietnam

Wandering Ghosts of Late Socialism: Conflict, Metaphor, and Memory in a Southern Vietnamese Marketplace

‘The Red Seedlings of the Central Highlands’: Social Relatedness and Political Integration of Select Ethnic Minority Groups in Post-War Vietnam

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