Vietnam S New Middle Classes

Author : Arve Hansen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031141676

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Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes by Arve Hansen Pdf

This book studies the dramatic changes in consumption patterns in Vietnam over the past decades, combining a focus on everyday practices and societal transformations. Zooming in on the new urban middle classes, and through in-depth case studies in the realms of mobility, food and energy, the book brings new insights to some of the most urgent global sustainability challenges. Based on a decade of research in Vietnam, the book aims to contribute to better understanding one of the most fascinating ‘development success stories’ in the world. It introduces the term ‘consumer socialism’ to analyse some of the contradictions embedded in the socialist market economy. Simultaneously, the book aims to contribute to strengthening consumption research in and on emerging economies, and for this purpose develops a theoretical approach focusing on social practices and the political economy of consumption.

Author : Catherine A. Earl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 8776946800

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Vietnam's New Middle Classes by Catherine A. Earl Pdf

Author : Van Nguyen-Marshall,Lisa B. Welch Drummond,Danièle Bélanger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9400723067

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The Reinvention of Distinction by Van Nguyen-Marshall,Lisa B. Welch Drummond,Danièle Bélanger Pdf

This pioneering collection brings together an international group of scholars to explore the Vietnamese middle class. From the leisure pursuits of the colonial middle class to the impact of the new urban rich on landscape of the countryside, this interdisciplinary volume explores the ways in which middle classness has been practiced in a wide range of contexts throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. In addition to offering insights into how middle classness was and is constituted and negotiated, this collection illuminates the cultural and social conditions of two distinctive periods in Vietnamese history. Three historical chapters consider how middle class status was experienced and displayed under French colonialism and in 1960s republican. These chapters offer examinations of middle classness through recreation, consumption, and associational life. Six contemporary studies examine the modes of experimentation and practice within middle class urban Vietnam. Still a sensitive topic politically, the contemporary middle class, nascent but increasingly powerful, is exerting a strong impact on the shape of contemporary society and culture, as well as on urban and rural landscapes. This volume offers a series of studies which critically interrogate the practices of those who engage in or aspire to urban middle-class lifestyles in Vietnam both in the past and in the present.

Author : Arve Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031141687

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Consumption and Vietnam's New Middle Classes by Arve Hansen Pdf

This book studies the dramatic changes in consumption patterns in Vietnam the past decades, combining a focus on everyday practices and societal transformations. Zooming in on the new urban middle classes, and through in-depth case studies in the realms of mobility, food and energy, the book brings new insights to some of the most urgent global sustainability challenges. Based on a decade of research in Vietnam, the book aims to contribute to better understanding one of the most fascinating 'development success stories' in the world. It introduces the term 'consumer socialism' to analyse some of the contradictions embedded in the socialist market economy. Simultaneously, the book aims to contribute to strengthening consumption research in and on emerging economies, and for this purpose develops a theoretical approach combining social practice theory and political economy. Arve Hansen is a researcher at Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, where he leads the centre's research on consumption and energy and the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies. His research focuses on consumption and sustainability and the political economy of everyday practices, with a particular interest in Vietnam where he has worked for more than a decade.

Author : Benedicte Bull,Mariel Aguilar-Støen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800883789

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Handbook on International Development and the Environment by Benedicte Bull,Mariel Aguilar-Støen Pdf

Fifty years after the Stockholm Conference first placed the environment on the international development agenda, this Handbook continues the debate. Not only does it discuss the profound environmental and theoretical critique against ‘development’ as modernization and economic growth, but also how perspectives on nature have changed from an infinite resource to a fragile subject.

Author : Hadas Weiss
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788733939

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We Have Never Been Middle Class by Hadas Weiss Pdf

Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our attention, but seldom do we question the category itself. We Have Never Been Middle Class proposes that the middle class is an ideology. Tracing this ideology up to the age of financialization, it exposes the fallacy in the belief that we can all ascend or descend as a result of our aspirational and precautionary investments in property and education. Ethnographic accounts from Germany, Israel, the USA and elsewhere illustrate how this belief orients us, in our private lives as much as in our politics, toward accumulation-enhancing yet self-undermining goals. This original meshing of anthropology and critical theory elucidates capitalism by way of its archetypal actors.

Author : Jonathan D. London
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317647898

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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam by Jonathan D. London Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam is a comprehensive resource exploring social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of Vietnam, one of contemporary Asia’s most dynamic but least understood countries. Following an introduction that highlights major changes that have unfolded in Vietnam over the past three decades, the volume is organized into four thematic parts: Politics and Society Economy and Society Social Life and Institutions Cultures in Motion Part I addresses key aspects of Vietnam’s politics, from the role of the Communist Party of Vietnam in shaping the country’s institutional evolution, to continuity and change in patterns of socio-political organization, political expression, state repression, diplomatic relations, and human rights. Part II assesses the transformation of Vietnam’s economy, addressing patterns of economic growth, investment and trade, the role of the state in the economy, and other economic aspects of social life. Parts III and IV examine developments across a variety of social and cultural fields through chapters on themes including welfare, inequality, social policy, urbanization, the environment and society, gender, ethnicity, the family, cuisine, art, mass media, and the politics of remembrance. Featuring 38 essays by leading Vietnam scholars from around the world, this book provides a cutting-edge analysis of Vietnam’s transformation and changing engagement with the world. It is an invaluable interdisciplinary reference work that will be of interest to students and academics of Southeast Asian studies, as well as policymakers, analysts, and anyone wishing to learn more about contemporary Vietnam.

Author : Arve Hansen,Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317396727

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Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia by Arve Hansen,Kenneth Bo Nielsen Pdf

Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia explores the nexus between automobility and development in a pan-Asian comparative perspective. The book seeks to integrate the policies, production forms, consumption preferences and symbolism implicated in emerging Asian automobilities. Using empirically rich and grounded analyses of both comparative and single-country case studies, the authors chart new approaches to studying automobility and development in emerging Asia.

Author : Phan Le Ha,Doan Ba Ngoc
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030469122

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Higher Education in Market-Oriented Socialist Vietnam by Phan Le Ha,Doan Ba Ngoc Pdf

This book inspects higher education reform in market-oriented socialist Vietnam, with a focus on newness narratives and enquiry. Engaging in dialogic conversations with global and regional forces and exploring convergences in the domains of policy, curriculum, research, pedagogy, and society, chapter authors analyse ideologies that have entered Vietnam’s educational landscape. Chapters include discussions of post-Soviet legacies, socialist thought, privatization, neoliberalism, global rankings, academic freedom, autonomy, and elitism, as well as the actors, discourses and practices through which they manifest. In so doing, authors’ commentaries juxtapose phenomena in Vietnam with other national contexts such as the Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Japan, Australia, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Author : Jonathan Warren
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134859764

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Cultures of Development by Jonathan Warren Pdf

The North Atlantic development establishment has had a blemished track record over the past 65 years. In addition to a sizeable portfolio of failure, the few economic success stories in the developing world, such as South Korea and China, have been achieved by rejecting the advice of Western experts. Despite these realities, debates within mainstream development studies have stagnated around a narrow, acultural emphasis on institutions or the size and role of government. Cultures of Development uses a contrapuntal comparison of Vietnam and Brazil to show why it is important for development scholars and practitioners to broaden their conceptualization of economies to include the socio-cultural. This smartly written book based on original, ethnographic research breathes new life into development studies by bringing cultural studies into conversation with development studies, with an emphasis on improving—rather than merely critiquing—market economies. The applied deployment of critical development studies, i.e., interpretive economics, results in a number of theoretical advances in both development and areas studies, demonstrating the economic importance of certain kinds of cultural work carried out by religious leaders, artists, activists, and educators. Most importantly, the reader comes to fully appreciate how economies are embedded within the subjectivities, discourses, symbols, rituals, norms, and values of a given society. This pioneering book revives development practice and policy by offering fresh insights and ideas about how development can be advanced. It will be of special interest to scholars and students of Development Studies, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, and Area Studies.

Author : Ferne Edwards,Roos Gerritsen,Grit Wesser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000360707

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Food, Senses and the City by Ferne Edwards,Roos Gerritsen,Grit Wesser Pdf

This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. The volume includes the senses within the popular field of urban food studies to explore new understandings of how people live in cities and how we can understand cities through food. It reveals how the senses can provide unique insight into how the city and its dwellers are being reshaped and understood. Recognising cities as diverse and dynamic places, the book provides a wide range of case studies from food production to preparation and mediatisation through to consumption. These relationships are interrogated through themes of belonging and homemaking to discuss how food, memory, and materiality connect and disrupt past, present, and future imaginaries. As cities become larger, busier, and more crowded, this volume contributes to actual and potential ways that the senses can generate new understandings of how people live together in cities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical food studies, urban studies, and socio-cultural anthropology.

Author : Vince Le
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004383838

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Vietnamese Evangelicals and Pentecostalism by Vince Le Pdf

In Vietnamese Evangelicals and Pentecostalism, Vince Le offers an analysis of the historical, theological, and social conditions that shape the Vietnamese evangelical tradition and give rise to the growth of pentecostalism among evangelicals in contemporary Vietnam.

Author : Mariske Westendorp,Désirée Remmert,Kenneth Finis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789208962

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Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia by Mariske Westendorp,Désirée Remmert,Kenneth Finis Pdf

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations. Delving into topical issues such as education, social inequality, family pressures, changing values, precarious employment, and political discontent, the book explores how young people are pushing boundaries and imagining their future. In this way, they explore and create the identities of their local and global surroundings.

Author : Thomas Heberer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004128573

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Private Entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam by Thomas Heberer Pdf

Based on extensive field research in China and Vietnam the book reveals that the new body of entrepreneurs is not only interested in social and political processes of change, but is also actively trying to shape them.

Author : Marlyne Sahakian,Czarina Saloma,Suren Erkman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317310518

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Food Consumption in the City by Marlyne Sahakian,Czarina Saloma,Suren Erkman Pdf

Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, tourism, architecture and development studies to provide a comprehensive examination of food consumption trends in the cities of Asia and the Pacific, including household food consumption, eating out and food waste. The chapters cover different scales of analysis, from household research to national data, and combine different methodologies and approaches, from quantifiable data that show how much people consume to qualitative findings that reveal how and why consumption takes place in urban settings. Detailed case studies are included from China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea and Vietnam, as well as Hawai'i and Australia. The book makes a timely contribution to current debates on the challenges and opportunities for socially just and environmentally sound food consumption in urbanizing Asia and the Pacific. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138120617_oachapter3.pdf