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 notes on La Manufacture d’Opium, at…
A lockdown post. Looking forward to continuing to explore the city one great meal at a time. Here are some of my notes on La Manufacture d’Opium, at…
“Chống dịch như chống giặc” (“Fight the pandemic like an invader”) has become Vietnam’s slogan in its battle against COVID-19. From the pandemic’s onset until April 2021, Vietnam…
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,…
“I will never return to that Zone of Death! You too should try to follow this diet to nurture life.” Aunt Minh[i](Fieldwork notes, February 2018) We first met…
Another paragraph on the cutting floor: Compared to prison memoirs, accessibility to the American reconstruction of the war is abundantly available in a series of blockbuster films (besides…
The Corporate Imaginary, In Thesis Eleven August 13, 2020 Co research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom with Do Thi Xuan Huong, in Education Philosophy and Theory, 2020, with…
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 Table of Contents (PDF) Editorial Boa…
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?…
Theodor is in grade 2 of primary (7 years old) and they study Ho Chi Minh thought. Here is an example of their little parables about Bác Hồ…
New paper: Co-research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom Do Thi Xuan Huong & John Hutnyk 50 free ‘eprints’ for those who want to read it now –…
As I was chatting to Tony who wanted an update, here it for economies sake for the family and friends too: we are in week 12 of homeschooling.…
Comparative. Who’d have thought to do this one – but, its done, and there’s an intriguing and generous review – of J. Warren’s Cultures of Development: Vietnam, Brazil,…
A somewhat random video made to explain a model of teaching for a class on Capital and Anthropology/Mapping at Ton Duc Thang University, Faculty of Social Sciences and…
Walls are but the most visible parts of militarized borders. The Berlin Wall did not fall; it was demolished, first by hammer-wielding locals, then by state bulldozers, which…
This episode, Kylie interviews a very familiar guest … Dr Jodie-Lee Trembath (aka Jodie from TFS)! Now, Jodie’s no stranger to qualifications, but this year she completed her…
Some may wonder why Britain quite likes having a cheap labour force available for illicit work, yet politicians spend huge amounts of time presenting their tough on immigration…
An International Conference at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019 Innovations are the key. In method and analysis, in the ways in which scholarship engages with society…
International Conference at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019 Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities Innovations are the key. In method and analysis, in the ways…
Cỏc Linh Tuệ Giác = something like the image of the Holy Toad in culture and history. Going to read this cultural history next and was super proud…
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 University) In 2018, Vie…
Bureaucracy is so deadly dull because it’s so mundane. But, as Steve Woolgar points out in his book Mundane Governance, the Latin etymology of ‘mundane’ is ‘of the…
Using Mary Douglas’s notion of matter out of place, I posit that when the government changed the law and increased their negative rhetoric about foreign workers, people like…
Investigating Bird Flu in Vietnam As Earth’s climate and species assemblages rapidly change, emergent zoonoses—diseases that spill over from nonhuman animal to human populations—are outpacing modern m…