...Martha Lincoln This article examines the shifting biopolitical significance of poverty in Vietnam’s post-reform period, drawing on ethnographic interviews with poor Hanoians. Concomitant with the political economic and sociocultural shifts of market transition, public accounts of poverty’s nature...

...Sarah G. Grant This article considers the biopolitics of coffee in contemporary Vietnam. Drawing on Vietnamese food safety manuals and coffee processing educational materials, ethnographic research, and recent food safety scandals covered in state media, the article argues that for the Vietnamese...

... An by the poet Bùi Mai Hạnh. We supplement this material with an essay about the broader legal, social, and cultural context of sexual violence in contemporary Vietnam by Dr. Nguyễn Thu Hương of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University of Hà...

...Tuan Anh Nguyen; Jamie Gillen; Jonathan Rigg Vietnam’s New Rural Development program envisages the creation of a newly modern rural Vietnam. Drawing on fieldwork, this paper argues that the program has had little bearing on peasant livelihood strategies. The emergence of deagrarianization has...

...Tu Phuong Nguyen Through a case study of workers’ protests to demand owed wages and social insurance benefits after foreign management had suddenly fled the country, this article discusses the moral and legal dynamics of labor dispute resolution in Vietnam. It examines the local government’s use...

... covering Tagore in colonial Vietnam in order to explore alternative and less researched trajectories of contemporary Vietnamese nationalism. Specifically, it examines media coverage of Tagore’s works, ideas, personality, and appearance, and, in particular, his visit to Sài Gòn in 1929, to answer...

...Nicolas Lainez While conducting research on debt in the lives of sex workers in Hồ Chí Minh City, I stumbled upon an ad a moneylender had glued to a wall. It revealed that financialization was thriving in Vietnam, and more specifically that credit was rapidly expanding and colonizing the urban...

...Montira Rato Vietnamese studies first emerged in Thailand during the Cold War period and developed into a vibrant field after the establishment of Thai-Vietnamese diplomatic relations and the end of the Cambodian conflict. Vietnam’s accession to ASEAN in 1995 and preparation for the ASEAN Economic...

... Buddhism youth ethics psychology emotions Vietnam R E S E A R C H E S S A Y D A T M A N H N G U Y E N Unburdening the Heart: Urban Therapeutic Buddhism and Youth Well-Being in H Chí Minh City This article received the 2018 best graduate student paper prize from the Vietnamese Studies Group...

...Ngô Thị Diễm Hằng The concept of “religion” in Vietnam has long been linked directly with the discourse of state influence. This essay presents place-making practices at the Hùng Temple, exploring the manner in which certain apparatuses of the contemporary state exert control over the temple...

...John Gillespie; Thang Nguyen; Canh Le; Hung Nguyen Rapid industrialization has come at a high cost to the natural environment in Vietnam. Frustrated with regulatory inaction, Vietnamese citizens from many social backgrounds have taken direct action to protect their country’s natural environment...

...François Guillemot To fully understand the complexity of ideological commitments in Vietnam between 1945 and 1975, it is useful to return to the 1930s, when the attraction of the Vietnamese nationalists for the Fascist European regimes led a number of them to publicly celebrate the figure of Adolf...

...Huong Thu Le; Ha Trong Nguyen This essay examines wages and the gender wage gap between 1993 and 2008 in Vietnam. Our results reveal a slight increase in the mean of the gender wage gap from 2002 to 2008, which is mainly driven by a sharp increase in the gender wage gap for low-wage workers...

...Le Hoang Ngoc Yen This essay discusses leprosy patients’ lived realities during the transformation of Quy Hòa, a former Catholic-run leprosarium in south central Vietnam, from a religious care center into a state socialist institution. The change in leprosy care resulted in a radically divergent...

... in a room and forced to argue it out. There is a need for a decent and likely very noisy argument about how best to analyze Vietnamese politics Fforde s challenge is the stepping off point for this article. To be fair, some of Fforde s points should not be cause for alarm. For instance, that Vietnam...

... their return to Vietnam. By conducting multi-sited interviews in Vietnam and Malaysia between 2008 and 2015, we contribute to the transnational labor migration literature by focusing on Vietnamese factory and construction workers in Malaysia and their resistance to transnational state power. We argue...

...Ly Chu In this article, I present a critical overview of current approaches to studying social stratification and class in the post-reform Vietnamese context. I expound on the ideologically driven and politically mediated nature of discourse on social class in Vietnam, and examine the ideological...

... to a significant extent successful. Thus, I conclude, that the Vietnamese state shaped the labor exchange program to a significant degree. © 2017 by The Regents of the University of California 2017 Vietnam Czechoslovakia labor migration state-socialism workers’ rights protests R E S E A R C H E S S...

...Tuong Vu This essay examines the revolutionary path of modern state formation in Vietnam under the Vietnamese Communist Party. I argue that the party’s radical ideology and practices shaped the path of state formation by creating particular opportunities and conundrums in five key aspects of state...

... in colonial Vietnam. The French-regulated prostitution system had emerged in the metropole in the early nineteenth century and was promulgated throughout most of the French empire by the late nineteenth century. The regulatory system was designed to control the spread of venereal disease, keep prosti- tution...