Minh T. N. Nguyen. Waste and Wealth: An Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy

Gille, Zsuzsa

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“…Essentialist ideals of gender roles, which see men and women as differently able, continue to be enacted in various spheres, including labour in the garment industry (Angie Ngoc Tran, 2004), Buddhist practices in Hanoi (Soucy, 2012), petty trade in a Saigon market (Leshkowich, 2014), learning environments at high schools (Mai Thi Thuy Dung, 2015), farming in a northern village (Bergstedt, 2016), career choice among young people nationwide (Zharkevich et al, 2016), junk trade in northern Vietnam (Minh T. N. Nguyen, 2018a; and policing in northern Vietnam (Jardine, 2019). Research has underscored how women are socially regarded as more suited for "small," meticulous work and men more suited to "big," heavy, or technical work, even if the notions of "big work" (việc lớn) and "small work" (việc nhỏ) are contested (Leshkowich, 2014;Bergstedt, 2016;Minh T. N. Nguyen, 2019). The perpetuation of such essentialist views in Vietnam, which inform everyday gender practices and relations, exemplifies Butler's argument about how mundane, repetitive performances of gender create "the illusion of a prior substantiality," or "a core gendered self" (Butler, 2000, p. 29).…”

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“…Indeed, migrants in northern Vietnam often suffer from institutionalised and social discrimination (Nghiem Lien Huong, 2006;Sawamoto, 2014). Unlike Hanoi's official residents, whose rights and benefits are secured by their status in the household registration (hộ khẩu) system 26 and who tend to enjoy immediate familial support, migrants occupy a more vulnerable position as người ngoại tỉnh (literally, people from outside the city) (Nguyen Tuan Anh et al, 2012;Karis, 2013aKaris, & 2013bSawamoto, 2014;Minh T. N. Nguyen, 2019). Without an emotional and social base in the city, immigrants hold a tenuous position as "unofficial Hanoians" (Karis, 2013b).…”

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“…Without an emotional and social base in the city, immigrants hold a tenuous position as "unofficial Hanoians" (Karis, 2013b). A prolonged cultural distinction sees established Hanoians as superior to migrants in knowledge and manners (Nghiem Lien Huong, 2006;Sawamoto, 2014;Minh T. N. Nguyen, 2019). As prospective partners in the dating market, male migrants may also suffer a disadvantage compared to established Hanoians with more stable living conditions and favourable social networks.…”

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“…In Vietnamese culture, small-minded women are generally tolerated because the tendency to nitpick and gossip are conventionally seen as in women's nature. This essentialist gender differentiation is reinforced and practised in both everyday rhetoric and ways of living (Leshkowich, 2014;Linh Khanh Nguyen, 2016b;Minh, T. N. Nguyen, 2019). Again, by setting gender boundaries, Huy shows how "the norm governs intelligibility, allows for certain kinds of practices and action to become recognizable as such, imposing a grid of legibility on the social and defining the parameters of what will and will not appear within the domain of the social" (Butler, 2004, p. 42).…”

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“…Scholars of contemporary China have discussed how the Chinese government has made use of this concept to promote a sense of self-discipline so that people police their behaviours and demonstrate themselves as responsible citizens (Zhang, 2010;Harms, 2016); this form of governance can also be seen in Vietnam (Harms, 2016;Nguyen-Thu, 2016). Within everyday Vietnamese discourse, concern with văn minh has been observed in workingclass people and the better-off alike, reflecting a local desire for a more developed and cultured society and the government's promotion of civility as a citizen's responsibility (Pettus, 2003;Linh Khanh Nguyen, 2016a;Harms, 2009Harms, , 2014Harms, , 2016Minh T. N. Nguyen, 2019). Harms (2014) underscores that this idea of civility, upheld by urban Vietnamese, "encourages individuals to discipline their actions, comport their bodies, and live their lives in ways that do not unduly impinge on collective interests" (p. 228).…”

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Vietnamese Reception Of Soft Masculinities In Korean Television Dramas: Desires, Identifications, And Gender

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This doctoral thesis explores Vietnamese audience reception of soft masculinities, defined by the aestheticisation and romantic idealisation of male characters, in South Korean television dramas (K-dramas). Based on interview data collected in 2019, the thesis focuses on patterns of gendered desire, identification, and negotiation in viewers in their 20s and 30s. It highlights the popularity of K-dramas in Vietnam, which have established an enduring presence there since the late 1990s, overlapping with ongoing changes in gender relations following the introduction of the 1986 Đổi Mới (reform) policy, marked by Vietnam’s transition to a market economy and gradual integration into global trade. The thesis demonstrates how the spread of this “Korean Wave” is correlated with a changing local mediascape, the rise of a consumer culture, and a growing interest in exploring the self. In this thesis, I adopt the Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) method, which draws on the solicitation of free talk and storytelling and psychosocial attention to case studies in order to connect interview participants’ biographical details with their viewing experiences. The study is influenced by Judith Butler’s theoretical work on gender and performativity, as well as related material by scholars such as Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. I highlight how a nuanced understanding of the viewing experience treats it as a complex process linked to an individual’s biographical details and explore how this process intertwines with larger sociocultural contexts, including local norms, Confucian values, feminism, Western gender images, notions of modernity, and globalised aesthetic ideals. The study reveals that although gendered desires and identifications are shaped by norms, they can also subvert them, and thus provides empirical evidence for Butler’s theories from a Vietnamese context. It also shows that desires and identifications that result from engagement with fantasy on screen may follow viewers’ personalised logics and open up multiple avenues for interpretations. Prominent themes of viewing experiences in relation to soft masculinities analysed in this thesis include escapism, parasocial interactions with characters, romantic imaginations, melancholic identification with romantic relationships on screen, desires for upward mobility, queer pleasures, ambivalence, and disidentification. The thesis thus contributes to contemporary Vietnamese studies, gender studies, psychosocial studies, media audience studies, and research on the Korean Wave.

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How to speak to the masses, part II: Hồ Chí Minh as a moral and linguistic exemplar and the dynamics of register formation in 20th century Vietnam

Sidnell

2023

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Hồ Chí Minh's extended essay Fixing the Way We Work, written in 1947 after he and other high‐ranking members of the recently formed DRV (Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa), had been forced to retreat from Hanoi to the uplands of Thái Nguyên province, elaborates on organizational and practical problems within the party and obstacles to mass mobilization. The final chapter describes a way of speaking HCM refers to as ba hoa and which he sees as a “speech sickness” afflicting many low and middle ranking cadres who are in direct contact with the masses. In the first part of this essay, I argued that the largely proscriptive and negatively formulated instructions articulated in this context cohere by virtue of a common focus on problems of action. Specifically, ba hoa names a stereotyped speech register in which the connection between speaking and doing comes undone. In what follows, the second part of the essay, I describe the other, positively formulated half of the larger project of register formation: the elevation of HCM's own mode of expression (phong cách diễn đạt) to the status of an exemplary model that all Vietnamese people are expected to emulate. This involved extensive metasemiotic elaboration and (re)framing which was accomplished, in large part, through the writings of contemporaries and later interpreters. A consideration of this literature along with an analysis of the continued spectral presence of HCM in contemporary Vietnam allows for a specification of the semiotics of exemplarity.

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Single Mothers’ Livelihoods in Rural North Central Vietnam: Struggles for a Good Life

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Thi Vu

2023

Rural Life in Late Socialism

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Minh T. N. Nguyen. Waste and Wealth: An Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy

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Vietnamese Reception Of Soft Masculinities In Korean Television Dramas: Desires, Identifications, And Gender

Vietnamese Reception Of Soft Masculinities In Korean Television Dramas: Desires, Identifications, And Gender

How to speak to the masses, part II: Hồ Chí Minh as a moral and linguistic exemplar and the dynamics of register formation in 20th century Vietnam

Single Mothers’ Livelihoods in Rural North Central Vietnam: Struggles for a Good Life

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