Ann Marie Leshkowich
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 104566 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ann Marie Leshkowich |
| NOMBRES | Ann Marie |
| APELLIDO | Leshkowich |
| FIRMA | LESHKOWICH A M |
| AFILIACIONES | College of the Holy Cross |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
From Economic Transaction to LGBT Identity
During the 2010s, public attitudes in Vietnam shifted from hostility toward homosexuality to increasing support for LGBT rights. This article analyzes how social work expertise contributed to this transformation. In 2010, staff at an international NGO in Hồ Chí Minh City ascribed unhoused men’s transactional sex with men to economic desperation. Within five years, social workers had adopted global frameworks positing gender and sexuality as innat…
Affective Expertise
Alongside economic change, market socialism in Vietnam entails biopolitical campaigns to combat poverty as a “social problem.” Social workers in Hồ Chí Minh City function as agents of therapeutic governance to transform the lives of poor urban clients by employing empathetic interpersonal interaction grounded in scientific models of human behavior. Analysis of social workers’ affective expertise illuminates two gendered and classed consequences o…
Artful Decoloniality
Drawing on two case studies of designers whose work centered on the Vietnamese aó dài, one from the 1930s and the other the 2010s–2020s, this article considers how desires to construe fashion as art and the designer as fine artist have been implicated in transnational circuits of symbolic and material value, as well as colonial and postcolonial power relations. While decolonial scholarship on fashion has called for attention to diverse dress prac…
Traders in Motion
Markets and traders in Vietnam are on the move, literally and figuratively. The chapters in this volume offer rich ethnographic exploration of daily interactions among small-scale traders, suppliers, customers, family members, neighbors, and officials within contemporary Vietnam and across its borders. These quotidian encounters occur within contested spaces, through expanding and contracting circuits of mobility, and across physical and conceptu…
Traders in Motion
With essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic and political anthropology, geography, and sociology to illuminate how Vietnam's rapidly expanding market economy is formed and transformed by everyday interactions among traders, suppliers, customers, family members, neighbors, and officials. The con…
On Radicalism and Ethnographic Research on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Vietnam
Research Article| August 01 2017 On Radicalism and Ethnographic Research on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Vietnam Ann Marie Leshkowich Ann Marie Leshkowich Ann Marie Leshkowich is Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross. Her research focuses on gender, class, economic transformation, fashion, social work, and adoption in Vietnam. She is the author of Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace (University of Ha…
Kinship Secrets and Narrative Work
Essential Trade
Vietnam's New Middle Classes
This volume explores the social consequences of macro-economic reform introduced in Vietnam more than a quarter of a century ago through a focus on young women graduates who hope to find success in
Essential Trade
My husband doesn't have a head for business, complained Ng?c, the owner of a children's clothing stall in B?n Thanh market. Naturally, it's because he's a man. When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City's iconic marketplace speak, their language suggests that activity in the market is shaped by timeless, essential truths: Vietnamese women are naturally adept at buying and selling, while men are not; Vietnamese prefer to do business with family m…
Standardized forms of Vietnamese selfhood
Three standardized forms used to write the self in Vietnam structure ways of thinking about the relationship between the individual, family, and state; legitimize technical expertise and tools of self-improvement; and promote specific configurations of political economy. Two of the forms (the lý lịch autobiographical statement and the "Cultured Family" self-assessment checklist) are closely associated with socialist practices. The third (social w…
Rendering Infant Abandonment Technical and Moral
Over the past several decades, transnational adoption of Vietnamese children has developed from a response to war into a routine option for foreigners trying to build families. This article explores how the logics that have emerged within Vietnam to make sense of the transnational movement of children reflect both broader neoliberal ideologies of family and selfhood and late socialist anxieties about class differentiation. Child welfare professio…
Making Class and Gender
Over the past four decades, petty traders in Bến Thành market (Ho Chi Minh City) and Vietnamese officials have experienced and propelled rapid economic, political, and social transformations entailing reconfigurations of class and gender. Exploring the co-construction of class and gender through state and individual narratives and performances, I here make three contributions to anthropological scholarship on socialism and late, post-, and market…
The American War in Contemporary Vietnam
Wandering Ghosts of Late Socialism
In the late 1990s, a marketplace trader in Hồ Chí Minh City reported being plagued by wandering ghosts. The postwar Vietnamese landscape teems with angry spirits who died violently without descendents to honor them, but the trader's wandering ghosts were living: male market officials who demanded that merchants, most of them women, pay a fee for use rights to their stalls. Examining the conflict that ensued, this article argues that the wandering…
Woman, Buddhist, Entrepreneur
By the 1990s, Doi Moi had sparked both desire for profit and suspicion of wealth as a threat to traditional Vietnamese morality. This article explores how one successful businesswoman responded by attributing her prosperity to Buddhist piety. In rejecting the Confucian ethics favored by businessmen, she advanced an interpretation of traditional morality more accommodating of women and defended her class privilege as righteous. Her narrative draws…
Framing the Bride
Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan's Bridal Industry . Bonnie Adrian. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2003
What Happens When Asian Chic Becomes Chic in Asia
Almost Futures
Making Class and Gender
Over the past four decades, petty traders in Bến Thành market (Ho Chi Minh City) and Vietnamese officials have experienced and propelled rapid economic, political, and social transformations entailing reconfigurations of class and gender. Exploring the co-construction of class and gender through state and individual narratives and performances, I here make three contributions to anthropological scholarship on socialism and late, post-, and market…
Vietnam's New Middle Classes
This volume explores the social consequences of macro-economic reform introduced in Vietnam more than a quarter of a century ago through a focus on young women graduates who hope to find success in
Standardized forms of Vietnamese selfhood
Three standardized forms used to write the self in Vietnam structure ways of thinking about the relationship between the individual, family, and state; legitimize technical expertise and tools of self-improvement; and promote specific configurations of political economy. Two of the forms (the lý lịch autobiographical statement and the "Cultured Family" self-assessment checklist) are closely associated with socialist practices. The third (social w…
Wandering Ghosts of Late Socialism
In the late 1990s, a marketplace trader in Hồ Chí Minh City reported being plagued by wandering ghosts. The postwar Vietnamese landscape teems with angry spirits who died violently without descendents to honor them, but the trader's wandering ghosts were living: male market officials who demanded that merchants, most of them women, pay a fee for use rights to their stalls. Examining the conflict that ensued, this article argues that the wandering…
Woman, Buddhist, Entrepreneur
By the 1990s, Doi Moi had sparked both desire for profit and suspicion of wealth as a threat to traditional Vietnamese morality. This article explores how one successful businesswoman responded by attributing her prosperity to Buddhist piety. In rejecting the Confucian ethics favored by businessmen, she advanced an interpretation of traditional morality more accommodating of women and defended her class privilege as righteous. Her narrative draws…
What Happens When Asian Chic Becomes Chic in Asia
Rendering Infant Abandonment Technical and Moral
Over the past several decades, transnational adoption of Vietnamese children has developed from a response to war into a routine option for foreigners trying to build families. This article explores how the logics that have emerged within Vietnam to make sense of the transnational movement of children reflect both broader neoliberal ideologies of family and selfhood and late socialist anxieties about class differentiation. Child welfare professio…
Framing the Bride
Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan's Bridal Industry . Bonnie Adrian. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2003
Artful Decoloniality
Drawing on two case studies of designers whose work centered on the Vietnamese aó dài, one from the 1930s and the other the 2010s–2020s, this article considers how desires to construe fashion as art and the designer as fine artist have been implicated in transnational circuits of symbolic and material value, as well as colonial and postcolonial power relations. While decolonial scholarship on fashion has called for attention to diverse dress prac…
Kinship Secrets and Narrative Work
What Happens When Asian Chic Becomes Chic in Asia
Framing the Bride
Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan's Bridal Industry . Bonnie Adrian. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2003
Woman, Buddhist, Entrepreneur
By the 1990s, Doi Moi had sparked both desire for profit and suspicion of wealth as a threat to traditional Vietnamese morality. This article explores how one successful businesswoman responded by attributing her prosperity to Buddhist piety. In rejecting the Confucian ethics favored by businessmen, she advanced an interpretation of traditional morality more accommodating of women and defended her class privilege as righteous. Her narrative draws…
Wandering Ghosts of Late Socialism
In the late 1990s, a marketplace trader in Hồ Chí Minh City reported being plagued by wandering ghosts. The postwar Vietnamese landscape teems with angry spirits who died violently without descendents to honor them, but the trader's wandering ghosts were living: male market officials who demanded that merchants, most of them women, pay a fee for use rights to their stalls. Examining the conflict that ensued, this article argues that the wandering…
The American War in Contemporary Vietnam
Making Class and Gender
Over the past four decades, petty traders in Bến Thành market (Ho Chi Minh City) and Vietnamese officials have experienced and propelled rapid economic, political, and social transformations entailing reconfigurations of class and gender. Exploring the co-construction of class and gender through state and individual narratives and performances, I here make three contributions to anthropological scholarship on socialism and late, post-, and market…
Rendering Infant Abandonment Technical and Moral
Over the past several decades, transnational adoption of Vietnamese children has developed from a response to war into a routine option for foreigners trying to build families. This article explores how the logics that have emerged within Vietnam to make sense of the transnational movement of children reflect both broader neoliberal ideologies of family and selfhood and late socialist anxieties about class differentiation. Child welfare professio…
Essential Trade
My husband doesn't have a head for business, complained Ng?c, the owner of a children's clothing stall in B?n Thanh market. Naturally, it's because he's a man. When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City's iconic marketplace speak, their language suggests that activity in the market is shaped by timeless, essential truths: Vietnamese women are naturally adept at buying and selling, while men are not; Vietnamese prefer to do business with family m…
Standardized forms of Vietnamese selfhood
Three standardized forms used to write the self in Vietnam structure ways of thinking about the relationship between the individual, family, and state; legitimize technical expertise and tools of self-improvement; and promote specific configurations of political economy. Two of the forms (the lý lịch autobiographical statement and the "Cultured Family" self-assessment checklist) are closely associated with socialist practices. The third (social w…
Vietnam's New Middle Classes
This volume explores the social consequences of macro-economic reform introduced in Vietnam more than a quarter of a century ago through a focus on young women graduates who hope to find success in
Essential Trade
On Radicalism and Ethnographic Research on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Vietnam
Research Article| August 01 2017 On Radicalism and Ethnographic Research on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Vietnam Ann Marie Leshkowich Ann Marie Leshkowich Ann Marie Leshkowich is Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross. Her research focuses on gender, class, economic transformation, fashion, social work, and adoption in Vietnam. She is the author of Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace (University of Ha…
Kinship Secrets and Narrative Work
Traders in Motion
Markets and traders in Vietnam are on the move, literally and figuratively. The chapters in this volume offer rich ethnographic exploration of daily interactions among small-scale traders, suppliers, customers, family members, neighbors, and officials within contemporary Vietnam and across its borders. These quotidian encounters occur within contested spaces, through expanding and contracting circuits of mobility, and across physical and conceptu…
Traders in Motion
With essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic and political anthropology, geography, and sociology to illuminate how Vietnam's rapidly expanding market economy is formed and transformed by everyday interactions among traders, suppliers, customers, family members, neighbors, and officials. The con…
Affective Expertise
Alongside economic change, market socialism in Vietnam entails biopolitical campaigns to combat poverty as a “social problem.” Social workers in Hồ Chí Minh City function as agents of therapeutic governance to transform the lives of poor urban clients by employing empathetic interpersonal interaction grounded in scientific models of human behavior. Analysis of social workers’ affective expertise illuminates two gendered and classed consequences o…
Artful Decoloniality
Drawing on two case studies of designers whose work centered on the Vietnamese aó dài, one from the 1930s and the other the 2010s–2020s, this article considers how desires to construe fashion as art and the designer as fine artist have been implicated in transnational circuits of symbolic and material value, as well as colonial and postcolonial power relations. While decolonial scholarship on fashion has called for attention to diverse dress prac…
Almost Futures
From Economic Transaction to LGBT Identity
During the 2010s, public attitudes in Vietnam shifted from hostility toward homosexuality to increasing support for LGBT rights. This article analyzes how social work expertise contributed to this transformation. In 2010, staff at an international NGO in Hồ Chí Minh City ascribed unhoused men’s transactional sex with men to economic desperation. Within five years, social workers had adopted global frameworks positing gender and sexuality as innat…
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