Opium in HCMC
A lockdown post. Looking forward to continuing to explore the city one great meal at a time. Here are some of my …
Naming the Virus, Becoming the Virus: Affective Forces of Threat from Hà Nội to Atlanta and the Possibility for Anti-Racist Solidarities
“Chống dịch như chống giặc” (“Fight the pandemic like an invader”) has become Vietnam’s slogan in its battle against COVID-19. From the …
Merav Shohet on her book, Silence and Sacrifice
Interview by Annemarie Samuels https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520379381/silence-and-sacrifice Annemarie Samuels: When you first started considering doing ethnographic research in Vietnam,…
The “macrobiotics friends association”: nurturing life amidst chronic disease in Vietnam by Le Hoang Ngoc Yen
“I will never return to that Zone of Death! You too should try to follow this diet to nurture life.” Aunt Minh[i](Fieldwork …
Kill your Darlings again: Spike Lee’s faulty reparations
Another paragraph on the cutting floor: Compared to prison memoirs, accessibility to the American reconstruction of the war is abundantly available in …
Recent stuffs:
The Corporate Imaginary, In Thesis Eleven August 13, 2020 Co research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom with Do Thi Xuan Huong, …
Journal of Asian and African Studies – vol 55 no 6
jasa_55_6.tocjasa_55_6.toc Table of Contents Special Isssue: Sociology in Vietnam Today Previous Issue Volume 55 Issue 6, September 2020 Guest Editor: John Hutnyk …
Education Philosophy and Theory special journal issue on Innovating Institutions
Please read the intro (free access) and follow up the rest (you know how): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2020.1757395 Whole issue: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rept20/52/11?…
Bác Hồ’s Security Detail Lesson
Theodor is in grade 2 of primary (7 years old) and they study Ho Chi Minh thought. Here is an example of …
Co-research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom
New paper: Co-research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom Do Thi Xuan Huong & John Hutnyk 50 free ‘eprints’ for those who …
Honky Tonk University
As I was chatting to Tony who wanted an update, here it for economies sake for the family and friends too: we …
Vietnam – Brazil
Comparative. Who’d have thought to do this one – but, its done, and there’s an intriguing and generous review – of J. …
→Trinketization: answers to all questions about trinkets, and Capital.
The model for teaching at TDTU – in collaboration with Đỗ Thị Xuân Hương and Võ Nguyễn Thiện Phúc
A somewhat random video made to explain a model of teaching for a class on Capital and Anthropology/Mapping at Ton Duc Thang …
Explosive Landscapes
Walls are but the most visible parts of militarized borders. The Berlin Wall did not fall; it was demolished, first by hammer-wielding …
Ep. #50 An Anthropology of Universities: Jodie Trembath on Selling Academia
This episode, Kylie interviews a very familiar guest … Dr Jodie-Lee Trembath (aka Jodie from TFS)! Now, Jodie’s no stranger to qualifications, …
Immigration force
Some may wonder why Britain quite likes having a cheap labour force available for illicit work, yet politicians spend huge amounts of …
Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities #ISSH2019
An International Conference at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019 Innovations are the key. In method and analysis, in the ways …
International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019
International Conference at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019 Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities Innovations are the key. In …
Cóc Linh Tuệ Giác
Cỏc Linh Tuệ Giác = something like the image of the Holy Toad in culture and history. Going to read this cultural …
Review: Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
Food Anxiety in Globalizing Vietnam. Judith Ehlert and Nora Katharina Faltmann eds. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 330pp. ISBN 978-981-13-0743-0 .Shao-Yun Chang (Tulane …
Post-Bureaucratic Stress: Reflections on getting a police check in Vietnam
Bureaucracy is so deadly dull because it’s so mundane. But, as Steve Woolgar points out in his book Mundane Governance, the Latin …
Expats, Tourists and “Matter out of Place”
Using Mary Douglas’s notion of matter out of place, I posit that when the government changed the law and increased their negative …
Of Farmers and Fowl
Investigating Bird Flu in Vietnam As Earth’s climate and species assemblages rapidly change, emergent zoonoses—diseases that spill over from nonhuman animal to …