M Lincoln
Biographic Data
| ID | 12557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Lincoln |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lincoln |
| SIGNATURE | LINCOLN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0601-0336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Affective economies in crowdfunding for cancer
Cancer patients and survivors in the United States are increasingly likely to use online crowdfunding as a means of offsetting the expenses associated with their medical care. This practice of making an online appeal for support to a broad public audience constitutes an inadvertent form of informal emotional labor for its practitioners-labor in which striking the right affective notes in one's appeal is believed to be critical to fundraising outc…
Phan Nhật Nam, a Soldier Who Holds a Pen
Though unknown to mainstream American readers, including those familiar with the copious literature on the Vietnam War, Phan Nhật Nam is regarded in southern Vietnam as one of the most prominent war writers of his time. Between 1969 and 1975, his works were very well known and widely read. Upon Reunification in 1975, his oeuvre was banned by the communist state, but copies of his works were still circulated clandestinely. Though Phan Nhật Nam was…
Biopower in Transition
This article examines the shifting biopolitical significance of poverty in Vietnam’s post-reform period, drawing on ethnographic interviews with poor Hanoians. Concomitant with the political economic and sociocultural shifts of market transition, public accounts of poverty’s nature and causes have transformed. The diminished national prevalence of poverty, rapid macroeconomic growth, and the ethos of “socialization” inform accounts that depolitic…
Biopolitical Vietnam
The administration and management of life, health, and populations—or “biopolitics”—have long been a tacit concern of scholars of historic and contemporary Vietnam. Yet to date, there has been relatively little formal treatment of the constructs of biopolitics or biopower by scholars working in the field of Vietnamese studies. Noting the rich evidence for a “biopolitical Vietnam” already extant in interdisciplinary literatures, this introduction …
Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam
Through a tumultuous 20th-century period of revolution and foreign wars, Vietnam’s public health system was praised by international observers as a “bright light in an epidemiologically dark world,” standing out for its accomplishments in infectious disease control. Since the country’s transition to a “market economy with socialist orientation” in the mid-1980s, however, some of these achievements have been reversed as the “renovation” of nationa…
Environmental Justice Ethnography in the Classroom
In this era of industry deregulation, gutting of environmental protections, and science denial, environmental justice applied anthropology is more important than ever. There is growing ethnographic research into the ways people organize themselves and take action to protect their families and communities from toxins while demanding accountability from polluting industries and the state. When students encounter this literature in university curric…
Trais Pearson, Sovereign Necropolis
Reframing Thai historiography by reading cohorts of the unrecognised dead into the record, Sovereign Necropolis explores the social and political production of unequal life chances during the period of British influence in Siam. Tracing the sociology of ‘unnatural’ death in fin-de-siècle Bangkok, this work privileges accounts of subaltern city residents who died or were injured in ambivalent circumstances. Using archival reports of these casualti…
Haunting images
Toward a Critical Hauntology
While cross-disciplinary analysis of ghosts and haunting has burgeoned in recent decades, much of this scholarship presumes the figure of the ghost as a less than literal apparition. We propose that writers such as Jacques Derrida and Avery Gordon, who make use of the ghostly as a trope, are in fact describing a phenomenon we term secondary haunting, distinct from accounts of unquiet spirits who address the living directly with specific demands f…
Medical stratification in Vietnam
Market transition in Vietnam is known to have fueled health disparities, but racialized and nationality-linked aspects of the country's medical stratification have received less attention, despite the growing presence of foreigners using the health system. Field experiences reveal the country's increasing health and medical inequity - legible in the social, linguistic, economic, and physical distinctions between public health stations staffed by …
Tainted Commons, Public Health
In October 2007, a series of cholera epidemics broke out in Hanoi, interrupting a moment of economic triumphalism in post-transition Vietnam. In seeking the source of a refractory disease associated with poverty and underdevelopment, officials, media, and citizens not only identified scapegoats and proposed solutions, they also endorsed particular visions of moral conduct, social order, and public health. Controversy over cholera, a potent politi…
Advancing an Anthropology That Matters
public anthropology, Anthropology Now
Health media & global inequalities
Report from the field
Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide by Alexander Hinton
Black Hole, Gulag, Country Club
My deployment in Cuba was a wonderful experience. Of course it was difficult to be away from my wife, family and friends, but the overall experience was one that I will cherish for the rest of my l
Toward a Critical Hauntology
While cross-disciplinary analysis of ghosts and haunting has burgeoned in recent decades, much of this scholarship presumes the figure of the ghost as a less than literal apparition. We propose that writers such as Jacques Derrida and Avery Gordon, who make use of the ghostly as a trope, are in fact describing a phenomenon we term secondary haunting, distinct from accounts of unquiet spirits who address the living directly with specific demands f…
Tainted Commons, Public Health
In October 2007, a series of cholera epidemics broke out in Hanoi, interrupting a moment of economic triumphalism in post-transition Vietnam. In seeking the source of a refractory disease associated with poverty and underdevelopment, officials, media, and citizens not only identified scapegoats and proposed solutions, they also endorsed particular visions of moral conduct, social order, and public health. Controversy over cholera, a potent politi…
Medical stratification in Vietnam
Market transition in Vietnam is known to have fueled health disparities, but racialized and nationality-linked aspects of the country's medical stratification have received less attention, despite the growing presence of foreigners using the health system. Field experiences reveal the country's increasing health and medical inequity - legible in the social, linguistic, economic, and physical distinctions between public health stations staffed by …
Affective economies in crowdfunding for cancer
Cancer patients and survivors in the United States are increasingly likely to use online crowdfunding as a means of offsetting the expenses associated with their medical care. This practice of making an online appeal for support to a broad public audience constitutes an inadvertent form of informal emotional labor for its practitioners-labor in which striking the right affective notes in one's appeal is believed to be critical to fundraising outc…
Biopower in Transition
This article examines the shifting biopolitical significance of poverty in Vietnam’s post-reform period, drawing on ethnographic interviews with poor Hanoians. Concomitant with the political economic and sociocultural shifts of market transition, public accounts of poverty’s nature and causes have transformed. The diminished national prevalence of poverty, rapid macroeconomic growth, and the ethos of “socialization” inform accounts that depolitic…
Black Hole, Gulag, Country Club
My deployment in Cuba was a wonderful experience. Of course it was difficult to be away from my wife, family and friends, but the overall experience was one that I will cherish for the rest of my l
Report from the field
Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide by Alexander Hinton
Health media & global inequalities
Advancing an Anthropology That Matters
public anthropology, Anthropology Now
Medical stratification in Vietnam
Market transition in Vietnam is known to have fueled health disparities, but racialized and nationality-linked aspects of the country's medical stratification have received less attention, despite the growing presence of foreigners using the health system. Field experiences reveal the country's increasing health and medical inequity - legible in the social, linguistic, economic, and physical distinctions between public health stations staffed by …
Tainted Commons, Public Health
In October 2007, a series of cholera epidemics broke out in Hanoi, interrupting a moment of economic triumphalism in post-transition Vietnam. In seeking the source of a refractory disease associated with poverty and underdevelopment, officials, media, and citizens not only identified scapegoats and proposed solutions, they also endorsed particular visions of moral conduct, social order, and public health. Controversy over cholera, a potent politi…
Haunting images
Toward a Critical Hauntology
While cross-disciplinary analysis of ghosts and haunting has burgeoned in recent decades, much of this scholarship presumes the figure of the ghost as a less than literal apparition. We propose that writers such as Jacques Derrida and Avery Gordon, who make use of the ghostly as a trope, are in fact describing a phenomenon we term secondary haunting, distinct from accounts of unquiet spirits who address the living directly with specific demands f…
Environmental Justice Ethnography in the Classroom
In this era of industry deregulation, gutting of environmental protections, and science denial, environmental justice applied anthropology is more important than ever. There is growing ethnographic research into the ways people organize themselves and take action to protect their families and communities from toxins while demanding accountability from polluting industries and the state. When students encounter this literature in university curric…
Trais Pearson, Sovereign Necropolis
Reframing Thai historiography by reading cohorts of the unrecognised dead into the record, Sovereign Necropolis explores the social and political production of unequal life chances during the period of British influence in Siam. Tracing the sociology of ‘unnatural’ death in fin-de-siècle Bangkok, this work privileges accounts of subaltern city residents who died or were injured in ambivalent circumstances. Using archival reports of these casualti…
Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam
Through a tumultuous 20th-century period of revolution and foreign wars, Vietnam’s public health system was praised by international observers as a “bright light in an epidemiologically dark world,” standing out for its accomplishments in infectious disease control. Since the country’s transition to a “market economy with socialist orientation” in the mid-1980s, however, some of these achievements have been reversed as the “renovation” of nationa…
Biopower in Transition
This article examines the shifting biopolitical significance of poverty in Vietnam’s post-reform period, drawing on ethnographic interviews with poor Hanoians. Concomitant with the political economic and sociocultural shifts of market transition, public accounts of poverty’s nature and causes have transformed. The diminished national prevalence of poverty, rapid macroeconomic growth, and the ethos of “socialization” inform accounts that depolitic…
Biopolitical Vietnam
The administration and management of life, health, and populations—or “biopolitics”—have long been a tacit concern of scholars of historic and contemporary Vietnam. Yet to date, there has been relatively little formal treatment of the constructs of biopolitics or biopower by scholars working in the field of Vietnamese studies. Noting the rich evidence for a “biopolitical Vietnam” already extant in interdisciplinary literatures, this introduction …
Phan Nhật Nam, a Soldier Who Holds a Pen
Though unknown to mainstream American readers, including those familiar with the copious literature on the Vietnam War, Phan Nhật Nam is regarded in southern Vietnam as one of the most prominent war writers of his time. Between 1969 and 1975, his works were very well known and widely read. Upon Reunification in 1975, his oeuvre was banned by the communist state, but copies of his works were still circulated clandestinely. Though Phan Nhật Nam was…
Affective economies in crowdfunding for cancer
Cancer patients and survivors in the United States are increasingly likely to use online crowdfunding as a means of offsetting the expenses associated with their medical care. This practice of making an online appeal for support to a broad public audience constitutes an inadvertent form of informal emotional labor for its practitioners-labor in which striking the right affective notes in one's appeal is believed to be critical to fundraising outc…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · History (3 works)