Soziologie

» Veröffentlicht am 6. November 2024

Buchvorstellung des Arbeitsbereichs Soziologie der Transnationalisierung und Sozialanthropologie am 12. Dezember 2024

Wir möchten Sie zur Buchvorstellung des Arbeitsbereichs 6 (Soziologie der Transnationalisierung und Sozialanthropologie) am Donnerstag, den 12. Dezember 2024, ab 17 Uhr einladen.

We would like to invite you to the Research and Teaching Unit 6 (Sociology of Transnationalization and Social Anthropology) Book Launch on Thursday, 12th December 2024, starting at 5PM.

» Veröffentlicht am 7. August 2024

Talk: "Transnational Mobility, Kinship and Aspiration for the Good Life in Rural Central Vietnam"

On August 15th, Minh Nguyen gives a talk, titled "Transnational Mobility, Kinship and Aspiration for the Good Life in Rural Central Vietnam", at the National University of Singapore.

» Veröffentlicht am 5. August 2024

Reconfiguring Labour and Welfare in the Global South - Special Issue published

Global Social Policy has just published a new special issue edited by Minh T.N. Nguyen, Jingyu Mao and Helle Rydstrom titled "Reconfiguring labour and welfare in the Global South: How the social question is framed as market participation". The issue features eight analyses (mostly ethnographic analyses) and three commentaries addressing a range of Global South contexts of labour and welfare restructuring: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/GSP/current.

» Veröffentlicht am 27. Mai 2024

Care, Welfare, Government in Asia’s Market Economies – Writing Workshop in Collaboration between Bielefeld University and National University of Singapore

Between August 5th and 8th, the writing workshop Care, Welfare, Government in Asia’s Market Economy for early-career anthropologists and sociologists will take place at the National University of Singapore.

The workshop is co-convened by Prof. Minh Nguyen of Bielefeld University and Professor Vineeta Sinha of National University of Singapore, with further discussant inputs by Professor Anne-Christine Trémon (École des hautes études en sciences sociales - EHESS) and Dr. Megha Amrith (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity).

This is an activity of the ERC funded research project WelfareStruggles and a part of the long-standing collaboration between colleages based at Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Sociology and NUS’s Department of Anthropology and Sociology. See Call for Paper and program for details.

» Veröffentlicht am 2. April 2024

Oliver Flügel-Martinsen ist neuer Dekan der Fakultät

Mit Beginn des Sommersemesters 2024 ist Oliver Flügel-Martinsen neuer Dekan der Fakultät für Soziologie. Er ist seit 2010 Professor für Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte an der Fakultät. Er löst damit Andreas Vasilache nach fünf Semestern als Dekan ab. Neue Prodekanin ist Minh Nguyen, die Ruth Ayass ablöst.

» Veröffentlicht am 27. März 2024

H.Russell Bernard's Student Paper Prize goes to Ngoc Minh Luong

Ngoc Minh Luong, the Ph.D. researcher at the ERC-funded WelfareStruggles Project won the H.Russell Bernard's Student Paper Prize from the Society for Anthropological Science, for her paper titled "The Temporal Squeeze: Everyday Struggles of Factory Workers with the Times of Work, Welfare and Care". This is Ngoc's second student paper award as she received the Vietnam Study Group's 2023 Graduation Paper Prize for her paper on migrant factory workers' financial activities in Vietnam. For more information click here.

» Veröffentlicht am 23. November 2023

Book Launch

Der Arbeitsbereich 6 (Missbach, Faist, Pfaff und Nguyen) der Fakultät für Soziologie lädt am 17. Januar 2024 zur Book Launch ein. Sollten Sie Interesse haben an diesem Event teilzunehmen können Sie sich über den QR-Code des Posters oder per E-Mail an sekretariat.missbach@uni-bielefeld.de anmelden.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen.

Anmeldeschluss bis einschließlich 05. Januar 2024.

» Veröffentlicht am 17. Oktober 2023

Book Review: Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands by Seb Rumsby

A book review on Seb Rumsby´s "Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands" has been published on the LSE Southeast Asia Blog. It was written by Phill Wilcox. To read the review click here.

» Veröffentlicht am 7. September 2023

Hindu Deities on ‘World Tour’: Unbounded Efficacies - First publication of Bielefeld Anthropological Papers on Issues of the Global World (BAPGW)

The first paper of the new working paper series »Bielefeld Anthropological Papers on Issues of the Global World (BAPGW)« has been published. 

BAPGW features innovative theoretical and empirical analyses by scholars working on socio-cultural, economic and political issues of global implications in diverse contexts whose works are anthropologically and ethnographically oriented. The series provides a platform for staff members, guest speakers and visiting scholars of Bielefeld University's Faculty of Sociology to disseminate their findings, gather feedback and initiate discussion on their ongoing works. The series is edited and sponsored by the Faculty’s Department for Sociology of Transnationalisation and Social Anthropology.

The paper by Vineeta Sinha (University of Singapore) is titled »Hindu Deities on ‘World Tour’: Unbounded Efficacies«. 

For more information and access click here.

» Veröffentlicht am 30. August 2023

Rural Life in Late Socialism - Open-Access publication

»Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future« has been published by Brill as an open-access book. This is an updated version of the special issue with the same name, which was edited by Phill Wilcox, Jonathan Rigg, and Minh Nguyen. Catrina Schwendender contributed a chapter titled »A Good Life Postponed: Working in the Countryside, Retiring in the City in Contemporary China.« For more information and open access click here.

» Veröffentlicht am 4. Mai 2022

3rd UK-GERMAN FRONTIERS OF HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM

Minh Nguyen is serving as a Steering Committee member of the 3rd UK-GERMAN FRONTIERS OF HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM on 09 - 10 May 2022 (virtual conference). This year’s conference draws on the insights of the humanities and social sciences on the theme of ‘Mobilities’, exploring how mobilities have shaped, are shaping, and will shape our environments – both social and natural – and our interaction with them, through time. The symposium’s program can be downloaded here. 

» Veröffentlicht am 7. Januar 2022

Heritage and the Making of Political Legitimacy in Laos: The Past and Present of the Lao Nation

We are delighted to announce the publication of the monograph "Heritage and the Making of Political Legitimacy in Laos: The Past and Present of the Lao Nation” by Phill Wilcox. This book takes a fresh look at issues of legitimacy, heritage, and national identity for different members of the Lao population. It argues that the political system has become sufficiently embedded to avoid imminent risk of collapse but suggests that it is facing new challenges primarily in the form of rising Chinese influence in Laos.

For further information please follow the link.

» Veröffentlicht am 29. November 2021

Understanding Asia colloquium series continues with new theme

Understanding Asia colloquium series continues with a new theme Transnational Care and new round of speakers this winter term. The colloquium series is a joint cooperation of four working groups - WG Missbach, WG Nguyen, WG Pfaff and WG Vasilache. Please see the attached link for details of all the lectures in this series and details of how to register. All are warmly welcome to join. 

WG Social Anthropology (WG Pfaff) launched a new lecture series titled Shaping Asia. The theme of the series in this winter term is Heritage. Please see the attached link for details of all the lectures in this series and details of how to register. All are warmly welcome to join. 

» Veröffentlicht am 30. März 2021

Understanding Asia: Bridging Margins - Colloquium Series 2021

The colloqium series is a joint cooperation of four working groups (WG Missbach; WG Nguyen; WG Pfaff and WG Vasilache) of the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University. Lecture coordinators are Dr. Phill Wilcox (phill.wilcox@uni-bielefeld.de) and Dr. Éva-Rozália Hölzle (eva_rozalia.hoelzle@uni-bielefeld.de).

To register for the zoom events, please click on the "Register here" displayed next to each individual lecture below. The link will lead you to the site where you will be able to sign up for the respective lecture. Thank you in advance for your participation!

» Veröffentlicht am 11. März 2021

Peasants, Migrant Workers and “Supermarkets”: An Ethnographic Account of Chinese Development from the Margin

Prof. Dr. Minh Nguyen is giving a talk based on the paper “Peasants, Migrant Workers and “Supermarkets”: An Ethnographic Account of Chinese Development from the Margin” at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, on Tuesday March 18th, at 16:00-17:30 CET.

Zoom Meeting ID: 981 5093 9409
Passcode: Sussex