Soziologie

» Veröffentlicht am 20. Februar 2025

Ausschreibung einer wiss. Hilfskraftstelle (WHF) - Arbeitsgruppe von Prof. Dr. Minh Nguyen

Stellenausschreibung als PDF

» Veröffentlicht am 13. Februar 2025

Open-Access Special Issue Published: "Rural Futures in Late Socialist Asia"

A new special issue titled "Rural Futures in Late Socialist Asia" has been recently published by the Journal of Political Sociology (JPS). Edited by Jingyu Mao, Minh T.N. Nguyen and Phill Wilcox, the issue discusses how globalisation, increasing urbanisation, and state policies shape rural lives across China, Vietnam and Laos, and how rural people imagine their futures amid the risks and uncertainties generated at the juncture between political, economic, and ecological forces. It features contributions from Jingyu Mao, Minh T.N. Nguyen, Phill Wilcox, Ly T.C. Vo, Lan Wei, Cầm Hoàng, Roy Huijsmans, Michael Kleinod-Freudenberg, Weijing Wang, Tuan Anh Nguyen and Jonathan Rigg. For more information and open-access downloads, click here.

» Veröffentlicht am 3. Dezember 2024

ERC Consolidator Grant: 4 Millionen Euro für Soziolog*innen

Zwei Forschende der Fakultät für Soziologie der Universität Bielefeld, Professorin Dr. Minh Nguyen und Professor Dr. Carsten Sauer, erhalten die hochdotierten Consolidator Grants des Europäischen Forschungsrats (ERC). Ihre Projekte werden insgesamt mit rund 4,4 Millionen Euro gefördert. Nguyen wendet sich in ihrem neuen ERC-Projekt der Finanzialisierung, also der zunehmenden Bedeutung von Finanzmärkten, in Asiens Arbeitswelt zu. Sauer befasst sich in seinem Projekt mit geschlechtsspezifischen Lohnunterschieden in Europa. Der ERC gab heute (03.12.2024) bekannt, wer die neuen ERC Consolidator Grants erhält.

» 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 28. Oktober 2024

New Publication: Handbook on Migration and Development: A Counter-hegemonic Perspective

Elgar has published the "Handbook on Migration and Development: A Counter-hegemonic Perspective", which is edited by Raúl Delgado Wise, Branka Likic-Brboric, Ronaldo Munck, and Car...

» Veröffentlicht am 22. August 2024

Special Issue Published: "Welfare in Crisis: Labor and Social Protection in the Global South"

A new special issue titled "Welfare in Crisis: Labor and Social Protection in the Global South" has been published in the Journal of Labor and Society (Brill). Edited by Jake Lin, Dennis Arnold, and Minh T.N. Nguyen, the issue includes contributions from Rebecca Prentice, Mahmudul H. Sumon, André Thiemann, Angie Ngọc Trần, Rano Turaeva, and Chioma Joyce Onukogu.

» 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

Minh Nguyen awarded Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship by National University of Singapore

Professor Minh Nguyen has been awarded one of National University of Singapore (NUS)’s Isaac Manasseh Meyer fellowships at the Faculty of Arts and Social Science this year. The research will co-fund her stay at the faculty in August 2024 as part of the program of the research project WelfareStruggles (ERC No 803614). Details of the fellowship can be found here. During her fellowship, Prof. Nguyen will co-convene the writing workshop Care, Welfare, Government in Asia’s Market Economy with Prof. Vineeta Sinha of NUS and give a lecture titled Transnational Mobility, Kinship and Aspiration for the Good Life in Rural Central Vietnam.

» 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 22. April 2024

Understanding Asia: Ideas, Democracy and Rights

The Understanding Asia Colloquium Series continues. This semester's topic is »Ideas, Democracy and Rights«. The first talk, titled »Public Shadows: The Social Life of Shade in Saigon«, will be presented by Eric Harms (Yale University) on April 29th, from 16:15 to 17:45, in X-C3-107. For more information and registration, click here.

The colloquium series is a joint cooperation of four working groups (WG Missbach; WG Nguyen; WG Winkel and WG Vasilache) of the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University. 

» Veröffentlicht am 15. April 2024

Recent publications of AG Social Anthropology

Nguyen, M., Wilcox, P., & Lin, J. N. (2024). Guest Editors’ Introduction. The Good Life in Late Socialist Asia: Aspirations, Politics and Possibibilities. Positions Asia Crituque: 32, 1-25.

Tran, H., & Sandhya, A. S. (2024). Cutting down and stocking up: how migration brokers negotiate mobility disruptions. Applied Mobilities: 1-17.

Wilcox, P. (2024). (Not) on your bike: How Urban Laos doesn't move. Suomen Antropoloji: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society: 48(1), 26-42.

» 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 28. März 2024

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

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.

» Veröffentlicht am 25. März 2024

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

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.