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- Rydström, Helle, et al.
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Introduction
- 2004
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In: Gender Practices in Contemporary Vietnam.
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- Adman, Per, et al.
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171 forskare: ”Vi vuxna bör också klimatprotestera”
- 2019
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In: Dagens nyheter (DN debatt). - Stockholm. - 1101-2447.
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- DN DEBATT 26/9. Vuxna bör följa uppmaningen från ungdomarna i Fridays for future-rörelsen och protestera eftersom det politiska ledarskapet är otillräckligt. Omfattande och långvariga påtryckningar från hela samhället behövs för att få de politiskt ansvariga att utöva det ledarskap som klimatkrisen kräver, skriver 171 forskare i samhällsvetenskap och humaniora.
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- Bergman Rosamond, Annika, et al.
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The Case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies
- 2022
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In: Global Discourse. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2326-9995 .- 2043-7897. ; 12:3-4, s. 465-486
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Alarming reports on crises are appearing and being published on a daily basis in different expressions from climate change, to people’s movement and displacement, to armed conflict. Claims to crisis may involve tangible displays of desperate refugees, civilian casualties or persisting, if not, permanent poverty. Moreover, crisis relates to more abstract concepts such as failing democracy, instability in the liberal world order or national and global economic inequality. Crisis, in a sense, seemingly weaves the contemporary world together (Latour 1993), and this trend is reinforced by the frequent occurrence of mediatized or media-tuned global crisis narratives, many of which are currently shaped by populist apocalyptic ideology (Judis 2016). At the same time, crisis refers to social forces that can disrupt life and frame realities in ways, which go beyond prevalent discursive narratives (Jaques 2009; Smith and Vivekananda 2009). Crisis can also serve as a turning point and an opportunity for transformational change in a system (e.g. Polanyi 1944; Walby 2015). In particular, we outline an interdisciplinary approach to crisis as both concept and event, and thus to crisis studies, that moves away from some tendencies to see crisis as ahistorical, but rather emphasises uncertainty and contingency.
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Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications
- 2019
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that prevail and define social, economic and political conditions. Social inequalities have consequences for the everyday lives of women and girls where power relations, institutional and socio-cultural practices make them disadvantaged in terms of disaster preparedness and experience. Chapters in this book unravel how gender and masculinity intersect with age, ethnicity, sexuality and class in specific contexts around the globe. It looks at the various kinds of difficulties for particular groups before, during and after disastrous events such as typhoons, flooding, landslides and earthquakes. It explores how issues of gender hierarchies, patriarchal structures and masculinity are closely related to gender segregation, institutional codes of behaviour and to a denial of environmental crisis. This book stresses the need for a gender-responsive framework that can provide a more holistic understanding of disasters and climate change. A critical feminist perspective uncovers the gendered politics of disaster and climate change. This book will be useful for practitioners and researchers working within the areas of Climate Change response, Gender Studies, Disaster Studies and International Relations.
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- Ekoluoma, Mari-Elina, 1974-
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Everyday Life in a Philippine Sex Tourism Town
- 2017
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Sabang used to be a small, marginalized Philippine fishing village that in the span of three decades became a well-known international sex tourism site. This thesis deals with the implications of tourism (including sex tourism) and how it has become embedded in the daily life in today’s Sabang. The thesis highlights the local populations’ diverse reactions to the various changes associated with tourism growth, in particular how various symbolic, moral, and spatial boundaries are constructed and maintained.The ethnographic material examined in this thesis builds on several periods of fieldwork, in total 18 months, that were carried out between 2003 and 2015. Analytical tools found in tourism anthropology and in particular the branch of postcolonial tourism studies has guided the discussion and analysis of the socio-cultural effects of becoming a tourism town.This thesis argues that complex networks of boundaries are significant in maintaining a sense of order and social cohesion in times of change. Notions of cultural differences are expressed through the narratives and behaviors of the various inhabitants, and contribute to the maintaining of boundaries within and between groups. From the beginning of tourism growth commercial sex has been central and has become a significant factor in the tourism economy. While residents acknowledge their dependency on the go-go bars, the business of the night is framed so as not to defeat the inhabitants’ struggles to maintain local community’s sense of morality, or at least to set up boundaries between the outsiders’ immorality and insiders’ morality. Tourism has also offered opportunities to challenge conventional social hierarchies and local seats of power, and there are also recurrent discussions about who has the right to control resources and who can claim entitlement to a place now shared by people from all over the world.
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- Forsberg, Lucas, 1977-
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Involved Parenthood : Everyday Lives of Swedish Middle-Class Families
- 2009
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The dissertation studies how 16 Swedish middle-class parents understand and form their parenthood in everyday life. The focus is set on how they involve themselves in their children’s care and education, and how parental identities are negotiated in relation to cultural norms on parenthood. The analysis is based on qualitative methods, in particular interviews and participant observation with video camera in eight families. The study, which is inspired by poststructuralist perspectives on identity formation, shows that the informants position themselves in relation to a norm on involved parenthood, which is negotiated differently depending on social context and gender. The dissertation includes four empirical studies. The first focuses on the subjectivities and dilemmas that are created by parents’ strategies to manage time and childcare. The strategies render everyday life more effective, but the parents also want to be child-centered, which forces them to balance between positions as involved and uninvolved parents. The second study examines how the fathers negotiate their involvement in household work, childcare and time with children. To great extent, they follow the discourse on gender-equal and involved fatherhood, but they at times resist it through drawing on notions of child-centeredness, kinship, and a gendered division of labor. The third study focuses on how parents and teachers negotiate children’s education and rearing. Study four shows how the parents position themselves as involved parents in relation to their children’s homework. In conclusion, the dissertation shows that the parents idealize time spent with the children, but that in everyday life it is hard to get this time. Instead, much time is spent for the child, that is, doing household work and childcare. In both cases, time is child-centered, but time with the child is by the parents seen as “more” involved time.
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- Horton, Paul, et al.
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Contesting heteronormativity : The fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender recognition in India and Vietnam
- 2015
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In: Culture, Health and Sexuality. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1369-1058 .- 1464-5351. ; 17:9, s. 1059-1073
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Recent public debates about sexuality in India and Vietnam have brought the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people sharply into focus. Drawing on legal documents, secondary sources and ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the urban centres of Delhi and Hanoi, this article shows how the efforts of civil society organisations dedicated to the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights have had different consequences in these two Asian contexts. The paper considers how these organisations navigated government regulations about their formation and activities, as well as the funding priorities of national and international agencies. The HIV epidemic has had devastating consequences for gay men and other men who have sex with men, and has been highly stigmatising. As a sad irony, the epidemic has provided at the same time a strategic entry point for organisations to struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender recognition. This paper examines how the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender recognition has been doubly framed through health-based and rights-based approaches and how the struggle for recognition has positioned lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in India and Vietnam differently.
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- Horton, Paul, et al.
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Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Vietnam: Privileges, Pleasures, and Protests
- 2011
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In: Men and Masculinities. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1097-184X .- 1552-6828. ; 14:5, s. 542-564
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- By drawing on ethnographic data collected in two different settings in northern Vietnam, this article considers the ways in which heterosexual masculinity is configured by younger men. The intersection between heterosexuality and masculinity, the article argues, epitomizes a site of contestations between moral ideals, expectations about gendered support, and sexual pleasures disguised as protests. In introducing into a Southeast Asian context, the Latin American term machismo, understood as an expression of male-centered privileges and the ways in which they foster mens chauvinism against women (or other men), the article explores how local assumptions about the natural quintessential drive of male sexuality as well as a wifes obligations to comply with his sexual needs together provide men with morally legitimized explanations for the buying of various kinds of female sexual services.
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- Horton, Paul, 1974-
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LGBTQ in Vietnam : Heteronormativity and Resistance
- 2022. - 1
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In: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam. - London, UK : Routledge. - 9781315762302 ; , s. 461-472
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Recent political, legal, and social changes have served to highlight shifting understandings of sexualities in contemporary Vietnamese society. Such changes have included pride demonstrations; the establishment of organisations working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights; new legislation; and increased openness to non-heteronormative sexualities. Despite these changes, however, dominant heteronormative sociocultural norms related to the importance of the family, the patrilineage, and the innate characteristics of males and females, continue to exert significant pressure on the daily lives of LGBTQ people. In this chapter, we explore this familial politics of pressure and consider the ways through which LGBTQ people have sought to resist the dominant heteronormative context. The chapter is based on secondary sources, legal documents, and ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the urban centers of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, which involved participant observations in various settings, and informal and semi-structured interviews with employees at organizations dealing with LGBTQ issues, leaders of same-sex clubs, and LGBTQ people between the ages of 20 and 50. Our findings illustrate that rather than sacrificing their own happiness in order to fit into the dominant heteronormative framework, some LGBTQ people have instead resisted that restrictive framework in myriad ways, including through the co-option of the very framework within which their resistance takes place.
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- Horton, Paul
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School Bullying and Power Relations in Vietnam
- 2011
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Taking seriously the oft-made claim that power relations are central to school bullying, the dissertation focuses specifically on the interconnectedness of school bullying and power relations within the specific context of Vietnamese lower secondary schooling. The dissertation is based on extended ethnographic fieldwork in two lower secondary schools in the north-eastern Vietnamese port city of Haiphong. Drawing on participant observations, group and individual interviews with students and teachers, and questionnaire data, the dissertation questions the hitherto dominant understanding of bullying as proactively aggressive actions and instead shifts the focus away from individual behaviour and actions towards a more in-depth consideration of power relations and the role bullying plays within the institutional context of schooling. Rather than understanding power as something which is held by some individuals who abuse their power when bullying others, the dissertation adopts a Foucauldian approach to power, wherein power is not held but is rather exercised in strategic situations. In doing so, the dissertation illustrates how schools provide not only the setting for school bullying but also the disciplinary framework within which school bullying gains currency.
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- Lama, Phudoma, et al.
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Women as agents of change? : Reflections on Women in climate adaptation and mitigation in the Global North and South
- 2019
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In: Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications. - 9780429424861
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter argues that most efforts aimed at using women’s positions relative to climate change will be insufficient if not conducted with great care and analytical sensitivity. It shows that mitigation and adaptation measures of climate change often target women, either as untapped resources for combating climate change or as active and powerful participants in adaptation or mitigation efforts. The chapter demonstrates that even if discussions of climate change attempt to include gender, actual efforts rarely challenge the status quo but rather reinforce stereotypical perceptions of gender or may even result in greater vulnerability. It reviews relevant literature on gender and climate change, focusing in particular on gender mainstreaming; a tool used in many different contexts. The chapter discusses the perceived roles of women, first in the Global South, then in the Global North. It describes the implications of this for the larger field of gendered ramifications of climate change.
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- Rydström, Helle
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A Zone of Exception: Gendered Violences of Family 'Happiness' in Vietnam
- 2017
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In: Gender, Place and Culture. - 0966-369X. ; 24:7, s. 1051-1070
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines the ways in which women’s ‘family happiness’ in Vietnam paradoxically, and alarmingly, is rendered compatible with the endurance of what is diminished as ‘minor’ partner violence. Thus focusing on the gendering of ‘happiness’ and the discrepancies between ideals and practices, the article unfolds how intersections between a number of ‘power-geometries’ including violence preventive legislation, an official family discourse, and the patrilineally organized family facilitate the conditions that allow for male-to-female violence in the domestic sphere. The article highlights how Intimate Partner Violence transmutes the ‘happy family’ into a ‘zone of exception’ wherein which the laws prohibiting violence are suspended, the juridico-political status and rights of a woman blurred, and a state of chronic precariousness and crisis generated. Such tendencies are fortified by the ambiguous strategies of the Women’s Union. In maneuvering between violence preventive legislation and family ideals, the Union is criticizing patriarchal family hierarchies while also encouraging women to nurture family happiness by complying with an abusive partner.
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- Rydström, Helle, 1963-
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At Ville Glemme Krigen med USA
- 2000
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In: Dagbladet Information. - Copenhagen : Dagbladet Information. ; :2000-07-24
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- At ville glemme, afspejler de erindringsspor som en krigs tragik har indprentet i de overlevende.Med indgangen til år 2000 markeres 25-året for de amerikanske styrkers tilbagetrækning fra Saigon i det daværende Syd Vietnam. Billederne af flygtende amerikanske officerer og desperate sydvietnamesere er indprentet som minder om en katastrofal amerikansk udenrigspolitik med tragiske menneskelige omkostninger til følge. 25 år efter afslutningen på det, som vietnameserne kalder den amerikanske krig, møder man idag en officiel vietnamesisk anstreng-else for at se fremad, hvilket ligeledes er den umidelbare holdning blandt mange nordvietnamesere. Denne tendens har mange vesterlændinge, som har besøgt Hanoi, observeret og tolket som udtryk for at vietnameserne, som det ofte formuleres, har ’glemt’ krigen med USA.Denne glemsel er dog ikke en glemsel i ordets egentlige forstand. Det er snarere en villet glemsel, der må ses som et både nationalt og individuelt strategisk tiltag, hvormed en smertefuld påmindelse om den sorg, som krigen med USA indebar, og fortsat indebærer, kan håndteres.
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- Rydström, Helle
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Disasters, Ruins, and Crises: Masculinity and Ramifications of Storms in Vietnam
- 2020
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In: Ethnos. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0014-1844 .- 1469-588X. ; 85:2, s. 351-370
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- This article explores climate disasters in the era of the Anthropocene from a gender specific crisis perspective; as conditions of unpredictable outcomes and ruination which are encroaching differentiated ramifications upon inhabitants in coastal Vietnam. The article contests the ways in which the notions of vulnerability and resilience tend to understand a disaster as an interrupting event, which could be overcome by those upon whom the damage has befallen so life can return to normal. A crisis perspective, the article argues, offers an alternative avenue to an analysis of disasters by focusing on the entanglements between a crisis of emergency and a spectrum of various crises antecedents fostered by gendered livelihoods, masculinized privileges, and violences. When various crises modalities, intensities, and temporalities intersect with one another, a crisis in context might morph into crisis as context; into a disordered order of slow harm which impedes the return to pre-disaster normalcy.
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- Rydström, Helle
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Disrupting ‘A Man’s World’: Gender, Technology, and Class in Vietnam’s Global Heavy Industry.
- 2023
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In: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, JRAI. - : Wiley. - 1467-9655 .- 1359-0987. ; 29:1, s. 163-182
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Only rarely is Vietnam's global heavy industry studied from an anthropological perspective in either its gender or its class dimensions. This article contributes new insights into the ways in which the interagential dynamics of gender and technology from shopfloor to engineer offices coproduce social orders in contesting and perpetuating essentializing notions of femininity and masculinity. Blue-collar and white-collar women working in heavy industrial workplaces represent a minority in ‘a man's world’, ambiguously both disidentifying and identifying with notions of a typical ‘female character’ vis-à-vis ‘male character’. Women working in heavy industry, the article shows, generate ‘disruption’ by reconfiguring conventions regarding gendered occupation, redefining gendered engagement with technology, and recalibrating images of femininity and masculinity. Doing so means carving out new opportunities and/or provoking crisis in a patrilineal universe. The article analyses the intricate ways in which women's engagement with technology is empowering while simultaneously reinforcing gender- and class-specific inequalities in socialist Vietnam's global market economy.
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- Rydström, Helle, 1963-
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Embodying Morality : Growing Up in Rural Northern Vietnam
- 2003
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- "One of the first anthropological studies based on extensive fieldwork in Vietnam in decades, Embodying Morality examines child-rearing in a rural Red River delta commune. It is a sophisticated and intriguing exploration of the ways in which a family system based on principles of male descent influences the moral upbringing and learning of girls and boys." "In Vietnamese culture, boys alone perpetuate the patrilineal family line; they incorporate the past, present, and future morality, honor, and reputation of their father's lineage. Within this patrilineal universe, girls are viewed as blank sheets of paper and must compensate for this deficiency by embodying tinh cam (sensitivity, sense). Such attitudes play a significant role in the upbringing of girls and boys and in how they learn to use and understand their bodies. Helle Rydstrom offers fresh data - from audiotapes, video-tapes, textbooks, observations in the home and at school - for identifying the transformation of local and educational constructions of females, males, and morality into body styles of girls, boys, women, and men. She highlights the extent to which body performances in daily life produce, reproduce, and challenge widespread northern Vietnamese ideals of femininity and masculinity."--BOOK JACKET
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- Rydström, Helle, 1963-
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Embodying morality : Girls' socialization in a north Vietnamese commune
- 1998
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This study argues that Vietnamese girls' socialization is inseparable from the symbolic and biological meaning of female and male bodies. Socialization is not so much about "sex" (i.e. biological sex) or "gender" (i.e. social/symbolic sex) as it is about "body". This argument is elaborated theoretically with regard to contemporary research on the body and empirically with respect to a local north Vietnamese fieldsite called Thinh Tri. By exploring the turbulent past of Viet Nam, which includes epoches of Confucianism, Colonialism, Anti-colonialism, Revolution, Communism, and wars, the study shows that contemporary socialization of girls is a process of syncretism of both Confucian and Communist moral ideals. Thinh Tri girls and boys are ensconced in a patrilineally organized universe which emphasizes the importance of practicing either good female or male "morality" (dao duc). From the day a child is born its biological sex is configured due to whether the child is able to reproduce its patrilineage. A boy is seen as a materialization of the history of his patrilineage and, in such terms, his body is ascribed with "honor" (danh du). A son's vital importance for his patrilineage means that he is expected to demonstrate nghia ("obligations"/"loyalty"/"duty") towards his patrilineage by having a son himself when he grows up. A girl's body, on the other hand, is considered to be blank in both biological and symbolic terms. The body of a girl is bound to present time because her blood cannot be passed from one generation to another. This study demonstrates that the blank female body is perceived to be in need of social inscription because it does not incorporate any inborn "honor". Girls' socialization is, therefore, a bodily project of learning how to compensate socially for what is perceived to be a biological deficiency. Girls' bodies are inscribed with appropriate female "morality" by their female kin, in particular, who teach them how to embody the social and symbolic capital of tinh cam ("sentiments"/"feelings"/"emotions"). Tinh cam is assumed to be manifested in various situations of daily social interaction as a significant way of practicing good female "morality". Whenever girls take care of a younger sibling, play with their peers, conduct household chores, and are in kindergarten or primary school, they display from a very young age that they have learned to act with a "sense" (tinh cam) for the logic of a particular social situation. In this light, tinh cam emerges as a crucial social capacity which girls can invest in various fields of daily life.
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- Rydström, Helle
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Encountering "hot" anger. Domestic violence in contemporary Vietnam
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In: Violence against Women. - : SAGE Publications. - 1077-8012 .- 1552-8448. ; 9:6, s. 676-697
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines husband-to-wife violence within a rural Vietnamese community. In Vietnam, domestic violence is tied to a complex field of cultural forces that consists of a patrilineal tradition of ancestor worship, assumptions about females' versus males' character, Confucian virtues, and a history of war. Females are expected to encourage household harmony by adjusting themselves and, in so doing, make social life smooth. Males, on the other hand, are assumed to have a hot character, meaning that a male mightily into a rage and even behave violently. Local ways of constructing females and males, the article suggests, provide conditions for considering females as a corporeal materiality that can be manipulated into the right shape by the means of (male) violence. Domestic violence, like any other violence, by ignoring the corporeal limits thus brutally alters assumptions about the topography of the human body. © 2003 Sage Publications.
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- Rydström, Helle, et al.
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Family, Gender, and New Constellations: Crises and Changing Configurations in Late Đổi Mới Vietnam.
- 2023
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In: Vietnam: Navigating a Rapidly Changing Economy, Society and Political Order.
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- This chapter explores the ways in which ‘the family’ (gia đình) in late Đổi Mới Vietnam is undergoing transformations as a political institution, social organization, and lived experience. The notion of crisis, the chapter argues, provides an analytical vantage point to capture discrepancies between the ways in which the family is construed ideologically at the systemic level and how family life is experienced at the lifeworld level. Drawing on a combination of material, including ethnographic data,I I focus on two examples, each which indicates how an officially promoted family ideal is contested in a socio-economically changing society. These two examples refer to first, families that depart from a predominant heterosexual matrix and second, families that suffer from men’s abuse of their female partner.
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- Rydström, Helle, 1963-
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Female and Male 'Characters' : Images of Identification and Self-Identification for Rural Vietnamese Children and Adolescents
- 2004
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In: Gender practices in contemporary Vietnam. - Singapore : Singapore University Press. - 8791114721 - 9789971692827 ; , s. 74-95
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Gender-related studies on contemporary Vietnam are few in number, and most writing concentrates on socio-economic topics. This book's focus on the fundamental issues of gender roles is a significant contribution. Bruce M. Lockhart, National University of Singapore. Our knowledge of contemporary Vietnamese society is still limited, and studies of gender-related topics are few and far between. This book breaks much New ground on Vietnamese society that it will be of interest also to Vietnam specialists working on non-gender topics, as well as to non-specialists. Confucianism, colonialism and socialism have all contributed significantly to gender relations in Vietnam. More recently, political and social change associated with modernization and globalization have also had an impact. How do the Vietnamese display their social positions and their identities as male or female? This volume examines negotiations, and transgressions, of gender within Vietnamese society, looking at family, social and work relations, bodily displays, body language and occupation of space. Of special interest is a discussion of sexual harassment in schools and the workplace, and the strategies women adopt to deal with it, the first discussion of this issue by a Vietnamese scholar.
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