Tâm T T Ngô
Biographic Data
| ID | 178414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tâm T T Ngô |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tâm T T |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngô |
| SIGNATURE | NGÔ T T T |
| AFFILIATIONS | NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3122-9567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
War ecologies and their seductions: An introduction
How can we engage ethnographically with the often overlooked toxic and explosive effects of war and their harmful, frequently multi-generational, legacies? The oversight is notable because war waste insidiously contaminates and transforms entire environments, making them lethal for humans and non-humans alike at different scales and over different time frames. While anthropologists have critically examined the social, political, material, and emo…
Wounded lands and exposed people: The drift of Agent Orange in discourses of science, diplomacy and emerging biocitizenship in Vietnam
The Digital and the Embodied: Vietnamese Youth, Visual Media, and Transgenerational Remembrance Practices
War dead, trauma, and care: The differential reintegration of Vietnamese former combatants
This paper explores how Vietnamese former combatants navigate and contest the infrastructure of care and recognition (or lack thereof) for veterans, their families, and the war dead in postwar Vietnam. It examines efforts by veterans to establish their socio-political standing through acts of claim-making, including spiritual care for the dead. We argue that through these acts of claim-making, veterans forge an alternative modality of veteranhood…
Special issue introduction: Actions for the missing: scientific and vernacular forms of war dead accounting
This special issue examines Asian experiences of war and mass death in the previous century, with case studies from China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam (North and South, among its diaspora and across multiple generations). In this introduction we highlight several of the wider analytical interventions offered by the articles: (1) the spatiopolitical dynamics of war dead accounting in which forms of vernacular forensic expertise interact with and info…
The tombs of wind (Những ngôi mộ giό): The enigmas of empty graves, encrypted archives and porous bones
This article details the remarkable involvement of the Vietnamese population in finding and naming half a million Vietnamese missing-in-action (MIAs). The secrecy that characterised Vietnam's military operations during wartime, and the overlapping claims and therefore control of the MIAs by the army and civil administrations in the aftermath of the wars, are the reasons behind unsolvable quagmires in Vietnam's current war-accounting effort. The m…
Conspicuous performances: Ritual competition between Christian and non‐Christian Hmong in contemporary Vietnam
After recognising Hmong Protestantism, the Vietnamese state continued an ‘anti-conversion’ politics. It did so by encouraging the revival of what they saw as traditional Hmong religion as a bulwark against Protestantism and by enriching the range of cultural commodities for the growing ethno-tourism market. For the non-converts, not only their resistance of Christianity began to be redefined as ‘the battle’ against Christianity, their belief and …
Bones of contention: Situating the dead of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border war
Postcolonial Vietnam is characterized by the interplay between necropolitics and necrosociality, as practiced respectively by the militarized state and a society that traditionally maintains relations with the dead. This interplay is key to understanding conflicts in Vietnam over the bones of unidentified war dead. On the one hand, such bones can challenge the state's sovereignty when it assumes the responsibility of taking care of them. On the o…
Dynamics of Memory and Religious Nationalism in a Sino-Vietnamese Border Town
This article analyses the dynamics of official and unofficial religious nationalism in the Vietnamese border town of Lào Cai. In 1979 it was one of many Vietnamese towns that were reduced to rubble during the short but bloody war between Vietnam and China. The normalization of Sino-Vietnamese relations in 1991 allowed a booming border trade that let Lào Cai prosper, while the painful memory of this war continued to haunt the town and the daily ex…
Atheist Secularism and its Discontents: A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia
Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents takes a comparative approach to understanding religion under communism, arguing that communism was integral to the global experience of secularism. Bringing toge
Protestant conversion and social conflict: The case of the Hmong in contemporary Vietnam
This article analyses the social implications of the recent mass conversions to Protestantism by one-third of the one million Hmong in Vietnam. The conversions have been condemned by the Vietnamese state, while being understood by international human rights activists as acts of conscience on the part of the Hmong converts. This article focuses on the internal debate and divisions surrounding conversion among the Hmong themselves. The converts bel…
Bones of contention: Situating the dead of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border war
Postcolonial Vietnam is characterized by the interplay between necropolitics and necrosociality, as practiced respectively by the militarized state and a society that traditionally maintains relations with the dead. This interplay is key to understanding conflicts in Vietnam over the bones of unidentified war dead. On the one hand, such bones can challenge the state's sovereignty when it assumes the responsibility of taking care of them. On the o…
Dynamics of Memory and Religious Nationalism in a Sino-Vietnamese Border Town
This article analyses the dynamics of official and unofficial religious nationalism in the Vietnamese border town of Lào Cai. In 1979 it was one of many Vietnamese towns that were reduced to rubble during the short but bloody war between Vietnam and China. The normalization of Sino-Vietnamese relations in 1991 allowed a booming border trade that let Lào Cai prosper, while the painful memory of this war continued to haunt the town and the daily ex…
Protestant conversion and social conflict: The case of the Hmong in contemporary Vietnam
This article analyses the social implications of the recent mass conversions to Protestantism by one-third of the one million Hmong in Vietnam. The conversions have been condemned by the Vietnamese state, while being understood by international human rights activists as acts of conscience on the part of the Hmong converts. This article focuses on the internal debate and divisions surrounding conversion among the Hmong themselves. The converts bel…
War dead, trauma, and care: The differential reintegration of Vietnamese former combatants
This paper explores how Vietnamese former combatants navigate and contest the infrastructure of care and recognition (or lack thereof) for veterans, their families, and the war dead in postwar Vietnam. It examines efforts by veterans to establish their socio-political standing through acts of claim-making, including spiritual care for the dead. We argue that through these acts of claim-making, veterans forge an alternative modality of veteranhood…
The tombs of wind (Những ngôi mộ giό): The enigmas of empty graves, encrypted archives and porous bones
This article details the remarkable involvement of the Vietnamese population in finding and naming half a million Vietnamese missing-in-action (MIAs). The secrecy that characterised Vietnam's military operations during wartime, and the overlapping claims and therefore control of the MIAs by the army and civil administrations in the aftermath of the wars, are the reasons behind unsolvable quagmires in Vietnam's current war-accounting effort. The m…
Atheist Secularism and its Discontents: A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia
Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents takes a comparative approach to understanding religion under communism, arguing that communism was integral to the global experience of secularism. Bringing toge
Protestant conversion and social conflict: The case of the Hmong in contemporary Vietnam
This article analyses the social implications of the recent mass conversions to Protestantism by one-third of the one million Hmong in Vietnam. The conversions have been condemned by the Vietnamese state, while being understood by international human rights activists as acts of conscience on the part of the Hmong converts. This article focuses on the internal debate and divisions surrounding conversion among the Hmong themselves. The converts bel…
Dynamics of Memory and Religious Nationalism in a Sino-Vietnamese Border Town
This article analyses the dynamics of official and unofficial religious nationalism in the Vietnamese border town of Lào Cai. In 1979 it was one of many Vietnamese towns that were reduced to rubble during the short but bloody war between Vietnam and China. The normalization of Sino-Vietnamese relations in 1991 allowed a booming border trade that let Lào Cai prosper, while the painful memory of this war continued to haunt the town and the daily ex…
Conspicuous performances: Ritual competition between Christian and non‐Christian Hmong in contemporary Vietnam
After recognising Hmong Protestantism, the Vietnamese state continued an ‘anti-conversion’ politics. It did so by encouraging the revival of what they saw as traditional Hmong religion as a bulwark against Protestantism and by enriching the range of cultural commodities for the growing ethno-tourism market. For the non-converts, not only their resistance of Christianity began to be redefined as ‘the battle’ against Christianity, their belief and …
Bones of contention: Situating the dead of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border war
Postcolonial Vietnam is characterized by the interplay between necropolitics and necrosociality, as practiced respectively by the militarized state and a society that traditionally maintains relations with the dead. This interplay is key to understanding conflicts in Vietnam over the bones of unidentified war dead. On the one hand, such bones can challenge the state's sovereignty when it assumes the responsibility of taking care of them. On the o…
War dead, trauma, and care: The differential reintegration of Vietnamese former combatants
This paper explores how Vietnamese former combatants navigate and contest the infrastructure of care and recognition (or lack thereof) for veterans, their families, and the war dead in postwar Vietnam. It examines efforts by veterans to establish their socio-political standing through acts of claim-making, including spiritual care for the dead. We argue that through these acts of claim-making, veterans forge an alternative modality of veteranhood…
Special issue introduction: Actions for the missing: scientific and vernacular forms of war dead accounting
This special issue examines Asian experiences of war and mass death in the previous century, with case studies from China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam (North and South, among its diaspora and across multiple generations). In this introduction we highlight several of the wider analytical interventions offered by the articles: (1) the spatiopolitical dynamics of war dead accounting in which forms of vernacular forensic expertise interact with and info…
The tombs of wind (Những ngôi mộ giό): The enigmas of empty graves, encrypted archives and porous bones
This article details the remarkable involvement of the Vietnamese population in finding and naming half a million Vietnamese missing-in-action (MIAs). The secrecy that characterised Vietnam's military operations during wartime, and the overlapping claims and therefore control of the MIAs by the army and civil administrations in the aftermath of the wars, are the reasons behind unsolvable quagmires in Vietnam's current war-accounting effort. The m…
The Digital and the Embodied: Vietnamese Youth, Visual Media, and Transgenerational Remembrance Practices
War ecologies and their seductions: An introduction
How can we engage ethnographically with the often overlooked toxic and explosive effects of war and their harmful, frequently multi-generational, legacies? The oversight is notable because war waste insidiously contaminates and transforms entire environments, making them lethal for humans and non-humans alike at different scales and over different time frames. While anthropologists have critically examined the social, political, material, and emo…
Wounded lands and exposed people: The drift of Agent Orange in discourses of science, diplomacy and emerging biocitizenship in Vietnam
Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Vietnamese (5 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works)