Soziologie

» Veröffentlicht am 24. Februar 2021

New Publications from AG Social Anthropology

» Veröffentlicht am 12. Februar 2021

Review of Minh Nguyen's book Waste and Wealth

A review of “Waste and Wealth” was published by the Society for the Anthropology of Work. Please follow the link for further information [here].

» Veröffentlicht am 11. Januar 2021

Exchange Forum Regarding Global Encounters

An exchange forum between sociology faculties of Nanjing University, Vietnam National University (Hanoi) and Bielefeld University takes place on Tuesday, 19^th of January 2021 at 8am German time, 2pm Vietnam time, 3pm China time. Scholars from three institutions will briefly present their current research on a topic related to social transformations, with a view to highlighting forms of global connectivity and interactions in particular contexts.

» Veröffentlicht am 19. November 2020

Field of Exceptional Uncertainty: The Challenges of Early-Career Anthropologists in the Wake of the Corona Pandemic (Position Paper)

The position paper conveys the difficulties of practicing fieldwork and ethnography in times of lockdowns, travel bans, physical and social distancing to university administrations, funding agencies and also the wider public. It is the result of a collective effort by all organizers and participants of the DGSKA (German Anthropological Association) Online Autumn Academy that took place in October 2020. The attached document reads most complementary to the participants' blog contributions 'Fieldwork in Crisis'.

» Veröffentlicht am 3. November 2020

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

Minh Nguyen is giving a lecture at the University of Erlangen – Nürnberg on Thursday, 5^th November from 6pm to 8pm.

» Veröffentlicht am 28. Oktober 2020

Next seminar in the Understanding Asia Colloqium Series

We are excited to announce our next seminar in the Understanding Asia Colloqium Series. On 24. Nov. 2020, Professor Pierre Petit (Université libre de Bruxelles) will be presenting his research.

Wir freuen uns das nächste Seminar in unserer "Understanding Asia" Kolloqium Reihe anzukündigen. Am 24.11.2020 wird Professor Pierre Petit (Université libre de Bruxelles) einen Vortrag über seine Forschung halten.

» Veröffentlicht am 22. Oktober 2020

Boasblog Fieldwork Meets Crisis and German Anthropological Association's Autumn Academy (21-23.9)

The blog Fieldwork meets Crisis is part of the DGSKA Autumn School, which takes its starting point in the current pandemic moment, which substantially affects our discipline. In their blog posts, the participating researchers give insight into challenges and opportunities of ongoing research in times of the pandemic, and document not only pandemic field sites, but also current theoretical debates and emerging fields of anthropological research.

Die Herbstschule nimmt ihren Ausgangspunkt im aktuellen pandemischen Moment, das unser Fach in seiner Gänze betrifft und zu verändern scheint. Selbst wenn die Corona-bedingten Veränderungen der ethnologischen Forschung  (hoffentlich) nicht von Dauer sein werden, provozieren sie wichtige Fragen und Diskussionen, die über den pandemischen Moment hinausgehen und für die Ethnologie relevant bleiben.

» Veröffentlicht am 28. Juli 2020

Ethnographic Fieldwork in East Asia in Times of Covid-19

» Veröffentlicht am 28. Juli 2020

Roundtable “Methodologies On and Offline: Doing Ethnography Ethically in the Digital Age”

Phill Wilcox, from AG Social Anthropology, Bielefeld University, has co-convened a roundtable on digital methodologies for the EASA 2020 conference on 22. July 2020.

The roundtable “Methodologies on and offline: doing ethnography ethically in the digital age” examines how digital technologies impact the anthropological methodology by discussing issues related to the ethics of digital research, the contemporary understanding of the field site, public intimacy, data management, the notion of public/private, and online/offline identities.

» Veröffentlicht am 28. Juli 2020

New Publications from RG Social Anthropology

• Professor Dr. Minh Nguyen has published the paper Portfolios of Social Protection, Labour Mobility and the Rise of Life Insurance in Rural Central Vietnam in Development and Change.
• Dr. Jake Lin has published the paper Psyche Matters: Resistance from the Chinese Sweatshop of the World in Perspectives on Global Development and Technology.
• Dr. Phill Wilcox has published a paper “Don't ever change”? Cultural heritage and social development in “timeless” Luang Prabang in Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development.

» Veröffentlicht am 22. April 2020

Minh Nguyen Co-Editor of Special Issue on "The Moral Turn of Development in South East Asia"

Minh Nguyen  is the co-editor of the current South East Asia Research, Volume 28, Issue 1: “Beyond the State? The Moral Turn of Development in South East Asia”. This a special issue of South East Asia Research on moral development in Southeast Asia, edited by Associate Professor Annuska Derks and Professor Minh Nguyen. Looking “beyond the state”, articles in this special issue examine new assemblages of humanitarian and development actors.

» Veröffentlicht am 30. September 2019

Minh Nguyen wins book prize

» Veröffentlicht am 11. Juli 2019

Interview des Max-Planck-Instituts mit Minh Nguyen

Auf der Seite des "Max-Planck-Instituts für ethnologische Forschung" finden Sie unter dem Titel "Das Alumni-Interview: 10 Fragen an Minh Nguyen" ein kurzes Interview mit Minh Nguyen. Bevor sie 2018 als Professorin für Sozialanthropologie an die Fakultät kam, wirkte Minh Nguyen zwischen 2011 und 2016 als Research Fellow innerhalb der Fokusgruppe "Social Support and Kinship in China and Vietnam" am "Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung" in Halle/Saale. In dem Interview blickt Minh Nguyen auf die Anfänge ihrerer Karriere und ihr damaliges Arbeitsumfeld am MPI zurück.

Link zur deutschen Fassung des Interviews.

» Veröffentlicht am 24. Juni 2019

TRaNS: Trans – Regional and – National Studies of Southeast Asia, Volume 7/1 (ed. by Minh Nguyen & Oliver Tappe)

The new volume of the series "TRaNS", which approaches studies of Southeast Asia, has recently been published by Cambridge University Press. Minh Nguyen and Oliver Tappe are featured as special editors. The recent publication consists of chapters written by Oliver Tappe, Minh Nguyen, Indré Balčaitė, Inga Gruß, Gerben Nooteboom and Cheryll Alipio.

 “TRN Volume 7 Issue 1.” TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 7, no. 1 (2019): f1–f3. doi:10.1017/trn.2019.7.

» Veröffentlicht am 8. April 2019

Minh Nguyen Featured in DAAD's Research in Germany Portal

Under the headline "A Scoial Anthropologist Asks: How Do Countries Take Care of Their Citizens?", Minh Nguyen is currently featured in "DAAD's (German Academic Exchange Service) Research in Germany" portal. The initiative launched by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) seeks to present Germany's research achievements to the international scientific community.