Soziologie

» 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 21. September 2023

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

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. 

» Veröffentlicht am 28. Februar 2023

Two panels to be held at AAS-in-Asia conference 2023 on "The Politics of Aspiration and Transnational Migration in Post-reform Vietnam"

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.