The First International Workshop on the Hmong/Miao in Asia

Culas, Christian

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“…Although Hmong and Yao communities have typically lived at high elevations in Vietnam (Culas and Michaud, 2004; Sowerwine, 2004a), particular communes or even household clusters (hamlets) within the same commune can be located in quite different topographies. Between and even within the sampled communes in Sa Pa District, agroecological and climatic conditions varied from warm, humid, flat, and naturally well-irrigated lands, to cool, dry, and steep lands.…”

Section: Four Processes Unraveling Long-standing Entanglementsmentioning

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Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam

Garber

Turner

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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In the rural rice fields of upland northern Vietnam, Hmong and Yao ethnic minority farmers have been relationally “entangled” with a number of domesticated animal species to secure semi-subsistence livelihoods. Among these different inter-species entanglements, the relationships between farmers and water buffalo are the most profound. However, in recent years, the broader, contextual factors that shape the entanglements between farmers and water buffalo have been changing rapidly, provoked primarily by increasing extreme weather events, government-supported market integration, and rising land constraints. As these environmental, political, and socioeconomic factors have intensified, the complexity and persistence of long-standing entanglements between farmers and water buffalo appear to be diminishing. We offer a new conceptual perspective to the entanglement literature in this regard, suggesting that “unraveling” might best represent these processes. Nonetheless, we present the idea of “resistant” entanglements to indicate how many farmers have halted unraveling processes, while we posit a future of “reconfigured” entanglements, increasingly based on market forces. Drawing from in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with ethnic minority farmers, we analyze the changing characteristics of these farmer–buffalo entanglements, as well as a range of related socioeconomic and cultural consequences.

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Section: Four Processes Unraveling Long-standing Entanglementsmentioning

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Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam

Garber

Turner

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…My research project explored the everyday politics of Christianisation among the Hmong, a marginalised and impoverished ethnic minority group spread across the borderlands of China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. They have long been treated by nation states with distrust due to the strong ethnic identity, shared language, resistance to ethnic majority assimilation processes, occasional ethno-nationalist agendas and revolt against encroachment on their land (Culas and Michaud 2004). In the past 30 years, Vietnam’s highlands have witnessed a remarkable religious transformation as hundreds of thousands of Hmong converted to Evangelical Christianity (Ngô 2016), which is considered by the socialist state as a subversive Western religion associated with imperialism in Vietnam’s history (Taylor 2007).…”

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Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK

Rumsby

Eggert

2023

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This article contributes to the growing literature on researcher reflexivity by broaching the often-ignored issue of religious positionalities within political science, as well as speaking to the methodological implications of researching religion more broadly. We present and compare two autoethnographic case studies of research on politico-religious conflict in Vietnam and Lebanon, exploring how a researcher’s religiosity presents unique fieldwork challenges, opportunities and insights. We then discuss the ambivalence faced by religious researchers within the highly secularised academic environment, thus blurring the artificial dichotomy between ‘the field’ and the academy. Our reflections centre around three findings: (1) the importance of taking an intersectional approach which neither essentialises nor ignores religious aspects of positionality, whilst also being sensitive to spatial and temporal shifts in how they interact with a researcher’s gender, ethnicity, class and other identifiers; (2) the opportunities and perils of a researcher’s apparent religious common ground with participants (or lack thereof) in building rapport and negotiating a degree of insider status; and (3) the similarities and differences between suspicions of religious partialism during fieldwork and within academia.

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The First International Workshop on the Hmong/Miao in Asia

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Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam

Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam

Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK

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