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Interview: ‘Out of the Spheres of the Private and the Moral’

Veröffentlicht am 28. März 2024
Prior to the concluding conference of the ERC-funded 'WelfareStruggles' project, Minh Nguyen gave an interview to Manuela Lenzen from ZiF (Center for Interdisciplinary Research). The interview can be found here.[Weiterlesen]
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H.Russell Bernard's Student Paper Prize goes to Ngoc Minh Luong

Veröffentlicht am 27. März 2024
Ngoc Minh Luong, the Ph.D. researcher at the ERC-funded WelfareStruggles Project won the H.Russell Bernard's Student Paper Prize 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.

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Final Conference ERC projet WelfareStruggles: »The Politics of Care under Market Socialism«

Veröffentlicht am 25. März 2024

From March 26th to March 27th the final conference of the ERC funded project WelfareStruggles titled »The Politics of Care under Market Socialism: Labour Mobility, Global Capital and Changing Welfare System in Vietnam and China« will take place at ZiF. For more information click here.

 

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

Veröffentlicht am 17. Oktober 2023
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.[Weiterlesen]

Documentary Screening: ‘And Miles to Go Before I Sleep’

Veröffentlicht am 4. Oktober 2023

On October 10th he Understanding Asia Colloquium Series continues with th screening of the documentary `And Miles to Go Before I Sleep´. It will take place from 16 to 18 in X-E-0-226 and can also be joined via Zoom. For registration click here.  

Nguyen Quoc Phi was an undocumented migrant worker, or a ‘runaway’, in northern Taiwan before he was shot nine times by the police and left unattended by the paramedics on 31 August 2017. What made him ‘run away’ from his factory work? How did he find jobs in various construction sites? Why did he start taking drugs? Was he an imperfect victim? These are straightforward questions leading to complicated answers. The award-winning documentary And Miles to Go before I Sleep brings to the fore the nakedness of discrimination and the challenges to humanity if we choose to be bystanders indifferent to inequality and injustice

The content of the documentary includes violent scenes, and the topics under discussion may be stressful for some viewers. 

Film length: 90 Minutes

Q&A and Knowledge Co-Production Activity: 30 Minutes

Director: Tsai Tsung-lung, National Chung Cheng University

Tsai Tsung-Lung is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communications of the National Chung Cheng University and works as an independent documentary producer and director. He takes a humanist approach to his works concerning human rights, environmental crisis, and cultural diversities. Tsai endeavored to promote the visibility and understanding of documentaries and, as a lecturer, has dedicated to training filmmaking amongst students and amateurs. Some of his recent works were collaborated with his Vietnamese spouse, Nguyen Kim Hong, concentrating on migrant spouses and workers in Taiwan, such as See You, Lovable Strangers that recorded the hardships of Vietnamese farmworkers. His film My Imported Wife was archived in the Museum of Television and Radio in New York. Sunflower Occupation, the latest film produced by Tsai, was selected in the New Asian Currents item in the 2015 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.

Coordinator: Dr. Isabelle Cockel (University of Portsmouth) and Huy Tran (Bielefeld University) 

Dr. Isabelle Cockel is Senior Lecturer in East Asian and International Development Studies at the University of Portsmouth. Her research focuses on labour and marriage migration in East Asia. She is particularly interested in how the state instrumentalises immigration for political economic interests. Her publications focus on sovereignty, citizenship, gender, activism, and irregular work in the informal labour market. Enacting upon her commitment to academic activism, she utilises academic blogs to raise public awareness of inequality and injustice embedded in labour migration. 

Dr. Huy Tran is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University. His research pays attention to the several patterns and aspects of transnational migration in East Asia and the Vietnamese migrant community in Japan. He also has an interest on the sexual and gender dimension in transnational migration, migration brokerage and the migration industry. 

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Recent publications from AG Social Anthropology

Veröffentlicht am 29. September 2023

Nguyen, Minh T. N., and Lan Wei. 2023. “Peasant Traders, Migrant Workers and ‘Supermarkets’: Low-Cost Provisions and the Reproduction of Migrant Labor in China.” Economic Anthropology 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12292.


Wilcox, Phill, Rigg, Jonathan, & Nguyen, Minh T. N. 2023. Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future. Brill.   https://brill.com/display/title/63621?rskey=s2AkuQ&result=4.


Mao, Jingyu. 2023. “Doing Ethnicity—Multi-layered Ethnic Scripts in Contemporary China“. The China Quarterly 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741023000681.


Mao, Jingyu. 2023. “Bringing emotional reflexivity and emotional regime to understanding ‘the hukou puzzle’ in contemporary China. Emotions and Society“. https://doi.org/10.1332/263169021X16731871958851 (published online ahead of print 2023).


Mao, Jingyu. & Yan, Zhu. 2023. “Friends are those who can help you out: unpacking the understandings and experiences of friendships among young migrant workers in China“. Families, Relationships and Societies. XX(XX): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16770752617895 (published online ahead of print 2023).


Lin, Jake. & Mao, Jingyu. 2023. “More equitable fiscal systems are needed to improve welfare provision for migrant workers in China and Vietnam“. Melbourne Asia Review. Edition 14. https://doi.org/10.37839/MAR2652-550X14.13 (Equal authorship).

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New Frontiers of Research on Welfare in the Global South - Ring Lecture Series

Veröffentlicht am 21. September 2023

Whereas the welfare state in the Global North has been a response to industrialization and the rise of the workers' movement, the Global South is characterized by different legacies of social policy that stem, among others, from their colonial histories and the influence of transnational actors such as international organizations. In recent decades, social policies have further expanded across the Global South, as international organizations such as the ILO have (re-)discovered global poverty and the widespread lack of social protection for certain groups in the so-called "developing world" as intertwined. In light of far-reaching societal transformations, there have certainly been large-scale social policy developments in these countries in recent decades.

This lecture series hosts eminent scholars of social policy, anthropology, development and related fields, who will present their work on new frontiers of research on welfare in the Global South. Overall, the lecture series enquires into the varying trajectories of welfare transformations in the Global South and their political, historical and social contexts.

All lectures, with exception of the first, will be hybrid events. To register to the Zoom events click here

 

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

Veröffentlicht am 7. September 2023

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.

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Rural Life in Late Socialism - Open-Access publication

Veröffentlicht am 30. August 2023

»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.

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Understanding Asia: "Democratic Regression and Environmental Politics in Indonesia"

Veröffentlicht am 6. April 2023

The Understanding Asia Colloquium Series continues. Our first guest this semester is Dirk Tomsa from La Trobe University Melbourne. His talk is titled "Democratic Regression and Environmental Politics in Indonesia" and will take place on 12.04. from 16:15 to 17:45 in X-E0-200. 

Click here for more information.

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H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Travel Award goes to Zhenwei Wang

Veröffentlicht am 31. März 2023
The H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Travel Award at the Society for Anthropological Sciences Spring Meeting 2023 goes to Zhenwei Wang. Her submitted paper is called: "Forced and Uncertain Co-Presence: Smart Cameras and Distant Homework Supervision in Eastern China". For more information on the award click here.[Weiterlesen]
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Two panels to be held at AAS-in-Asia conference 2023 on "The Politics of Aspiration and Transnational Migration in Post-reform Vietnam"

Veröffentlicht am 28. Februar 2023

The organized panels from Professor Minh Nguyen and Huy Tran (postdoctoral fellow) have been accepted to the AAS in Asia 2023 Conference. The conference will take place from 24th to 27th June 2023 in Daegu, South Korea, with a focus on "Asia in Motion: Memory, Preservation and Documentation". The organized panels from Tran and Nguyen takes on the theme of "The Politics of Aspiration and Transnational Migration in Post-reform Vietnam" and consists of two consecutive sessions. They will feature up-to-date contributions that explore both empirically and theoretically the complex tangle of aspiration and transnational mobility and how the politics of aspiration unfold at various levels in the context of in post-reform Vietnam. 


More details can be found here.

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Panel to be held at ASA 2023 conference on Financializing social protection in the Global South

Veröffentlicht am 17. Januar 2023

Professor Minh Nguyen and Dr Jingyu Mao will co-convene a panel at ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists) 2023 conference this April at SOAS, London.

Professor Sohini Kar from the London School of Economics will be the discussant.

More details can be found here: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/asa2023/p/12818.  

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

Veröffentlicht am 16. Januar 2023
"Transnational Mobility, Kinship and Aspiration for the Good Life in Rural Central Vietnam" is the title of the talk Minh Nguyen will give tomorrow (January 17th, 6pm) at University of Bremen. The talk is part of the IfEK colloquium series (Institute for Ethnology and Cultural studies). You can join the hybrid event by contacting: xiaoling@uni-bremen.de.[Weiterlesen]
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Parental migration and differences in families ́ treatment of boys and girls in rural China

Veröffentlicht am 16. Januar 2023
The Understanding Asia colloquium series continues on January 18th with the lecture titled: "Parental migration and differences in families ́ treatment of boys and girls in rural China". It will be held by Prof. Rachel Murphy from St Antony's College Oxford. The talk talk starts at 16:30 in X-C3-107. For more information klick here.[Weiterlesen]
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