Sarah Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6542-8767 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 151 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 773 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 149 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Aspirational urbanism and the symbolic influence of Singapore in Vietnam
For many planning practitioners and policymakers, Singapore is framed as a model of efficient, growth-orientated urban development. Yet, efforts to take up Singapore-linked planning approaches and urban design are uneven and contested. In this article, we reconsider Singapore’s influence in urban planning and design through a critical lens of aspirational urbanism, using Hanoi, Vietnam, as a case study. We conceptualise aspirational urbanism thro…
“Can She Handle It?” Women Delivery Drivers and the Gendered Politics of Hanoi’s Streets
On Hanoi’s crowded streets, women app‐based motorbike delivery drivers carve out precarious yet essential roles in the city’s mobility landscape. In this article we examine these drivers’ everyday experiences, highlighting the gendered challenges they face in a profession still widely male‐dominated. Drawing on 34 in‐depth interviews, we explore how these women navigate public scepticism about their capabilities, manage the physical and logistica…
Public spaces in an industrial town: What the Covid-19 lockdowns tell us about publicness and everyday urbanism in Vietnam
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnamese cities, adhering to the central government’s mobility and social restriction policies, enacted regulations that curtailed access to and use of public spaces. In industrial towns, measures to create “COVID-free” environments led to even more stringent restrictions and surveillance in residential and work settings. In this article, we examine the changing perceptions and uses of public spaces among the resid…
Work Boots to Combat Boots: Mass Layoffs and Military Enlistment
Weak local labor market conditions may change the trajectories of young adults who expected to find work. Well-documented responses include increasing educational investments, moving to more prosperous labor markets, or reducing labor force attachment. Military enlistment is a channel of potential adjustment that has received less study. Using data on Army recruits, we demonstrate a significant local response in enlistment to mass layoffs, charac…
Beyond Bia Hơi ? Distinction and Aspiration in Hanoi's Craft Beer Scene
In this article we examine the emergence of Hanoi's craft beer scene as a window into shifting class identities, aspirational consumption, and local–global negotiations in contemporary Vietnam. We bring together Bourdieu's theorisation of taste as symbolic capital with Appadurai's concept of aspiration to analyse how consumption practices become bound up with distinction and imagined futures. Methodologically, we draw on 67 semi‐structured interv…
Navigating Industrial Work: Lives, Aspirations, and Coping Strategies of Migrant Factory Workers in Vietnam
In this article we examine how rural‐to‐urban migrant factory workers in two of Vietnam's industrial zones actively construct livelihood stability and pursue future aspirations while dealing with structurally precarious work environments. We develop a multi‐scalar conceptual framework combining key ideas regarding livelihood trajectories, feminist social reproduction theory, and social networks and social capital, and draw on worker interviews in…
Sidewalk solidarity and networked camaraderie: App-based drivers and infrastructural citizenship in Vietnam
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Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam
The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal, culinary, and ritual uses. Today, it has become a celebrated commodity crop promoted by the state through ref…
Fieldwork in flux: Injury, disruption and the case for flexibility in research design
In this short piece, we argue that flexibility should be recognised as a foundational component of robust and ethical fieldwork design, especially in contexts where researchers are likely to encounter unexpected challenges. Drawing on two case studies from doctoral fieldwork in Indonesia and Vietnam, we examine how unanticipated disruptions to original research plans, which included injury, logistical constraints, and harassment, prompted a re-ev…
Early life predictors of child development at kindergarten: A structural equation model using a longitudinal cohort
Introduction Early child development sets the stage for lifelong health. Identifying early life factors related to child development can help guide programs and policies to bolster child health and wellbeing. The objective of this research was to examine how a broad range of predictors, measured prenatally to the third year of life, are related to child development at kindergarten. Methods We linked survey data from the Manitoba site of the CHILD…
Games of Scarcity: Creativity, Community, and Everyday Childhood During the Subsidy Period in Hanoi, Vietnam
This study examines children’s everyday experiences in Hanoi during Vietnam’s subsidy era (1955–1986), including the Vietnam-American war. Combining intergenerational interviews, photo elicitation, focus groups, and oral histories, we explore how children navigated socialist policies, food shortages, and other economic challenges. Despite limited resources, children demonstrated remarkable resourcefulness, creativity, and resilience, adapting to …
Examining interactions between chronic pain, positive mental health and coping on past-year suicidal ideation in a Canadian sample
Chronic pain affects approximately 20% of the Canadian population and is related to increases in suicide-related outcomes. Protective factors for suicidal behaviours are understudied, yet they are an important area of research for promoting mental health and preventing suicide. This study examined the relationship between chronic pain and past-year suicidal ideation and the moderating roles of positive mental health and coping. Data were from the…
Positive Futures for Urban Agriculture in Asia? A Review
Many governments in Asia have recently started formulating policies for urban agriculture (UA), despite challenges regarding food safety, land access, and equity. In this paper, we systematically review the literature on the health, economic, social, and political dimensions of UA in South, East, and Southeast Asia. Our review reveals that key motivations and attitudes framing UA initiatives are distinct to this region, with food safety concerns …
Disrupted spaces, adaptive lives: Unequal impacts of Hanoi’s first urban railway lines
In this article, we examine two urban railway projects in Hanoi, Vietnam: Line 2A, operational since 2021, and Line 3, currently partly operational and partly under construction. Despite high hopes for these ‘sustainable’ transportation projects, little scholarly attention has focused on the inequities and negative impacts associated with their construction and operations. Specifically, the displacements and insecurities faced by Hanoi residents …
Illustrating Farmer–Animal Entanglements and Emotions: Drawing Elicitation in Upland Vietnam
While visual methods have been employed in research regarding human‐animal relationships and entanglements, the possible benefits of utilizing drawing elicitation have not been explored to date. Our study utilizes drawing elicitation with Hmong and Mien (Yao) ethnic minority farmers in the northern Vietnamese borderlands. We aim to investigate human‐animal relationships within these communities, considering their longstanding socio‐economic and s…
Pedals and throttles: Ride‐along experimental journeys with Hanoi's cyclo and motorbike taxi drivers
In this article, we analyse the effectiveness of ride‐alongs, a specific mobile method, to better understand the daily realities of informal mobile livelihoods in Hanoi, Vietnam. The field of mobile methods has seen significant advances both within and beyond geography. Yet, there is still an absence of literature comparing the benefits and drawbacks of using a consistent mobile method across different forms of mobility in the same context, such …
From open fields to inside worlds: Three generations of childhood in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
This paper explores how childhood experiences in urban Indonesia have changed across three generations, aiming to understand how these different cohorts have navigated and adapted to their environments amidst continuous urban and social transformations. Focusing on Yogyakarta – a city marked by a unique blend of tradition and modernity – we explore how changes in the urban fabric and socio-economic circumstances have affected children’s play, soc…
Children’s rights to the city: Growth and decline in Aotearoa-New Zealand
The Changing Geographies of Childhood in Southeast Asia: Narrative Maps from Three Generations in Hanoi and Yogyakarta
Heartbreak Gives Way to Hope After Grieving: A Critical Analysis of Personal Stories of Pregnancy Loss in the UK Press
Pregnancy loss continues to occupy an uncomfortable space in public discourse. This article analyses articles in the UK press published between 2013 and 2023 referencing the Baby Loss Awareness Week (BLAW) that focus on narratives of personal experience of pregnancy loss. These narratives sit between the personal and the public, and constitute examples of public grieving that serve a range of purposes, from the expression of continuing bonds with…
Cultural Concretions: Hmong Creative Adaptation in Vietnam
Jean Michaud and Sarah Turner examine the transition to concrete-based infrastructure in rural uplands of northern Vietnam and the resulting adaptations of cultural practices
In pursuit of thermal comfort: An exploration of smart heating in everyday life
Smart Home Heating Technologies (SHHT) have been designed to improve demand flexibility and energy conservation. SHHT rely on rational theories of energy use postulating that people will use less energy when the energy cost is higher. The inclusion of AI within SHHT is poised to optimise energy use in the future as the introduction of lower carbon energy sources place new demands on the grid. When SHHT is introduced in the home, however, they bec…
A train reaction: The infrastructural politics and mobility injustices accompanying Hanoi's new urban railway Line 2A
In 2008, Vietnam's Prime Minister approved the construction of the ‘Hanoi Urban Railway System’, a major infrastructure project for the country's capital city. The construction of Line 2A, the first line of this 8‐line railway, took ten years to complete, and was finally inaugurated in November 2021. Spanning 13 km across the city centre, Line 2A encountered more than just construction setbacks, with its reputation tarnished by contractor choice,…
Raising State Minimum Wages, Lowering Community College Enrollment
Changes in the minimum wage may impact college enrollment and educational attainment. Using institutional data on college enrollment and program completion, we find that enrollment falls markedly among students at public two-year institutions in response to increases in the minimum wage. The largest enrollment effects are seen for those students who are enrolled part-time at community colleges. We find little evidence of negative effects on the a…
From strict socialism to social evils: Changing childhoods over three generations in urban Vietnam
Over the span of three generations, Vietnam's capital Hanoi, has transformed from a modest city grappling with food scarcity during the socialist subsidy era to a sprawling metropolis marked by gated communities and a widening wealth divide. Employing a child‐centric, multi‐generational family methodology, with members of 13 families across three generations, we explore the diverse childhood experiences shaped by these rapid urban transformations…
Agrarian Angst and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Southeast Asia
1. Shifting fields of rural resistance in Southeast Asia. Sarah Turner and Dominique Caouette 2. Rural resistance and the art of domination Dominique Caouette and Sarah Turner 3. Weapons of the Week: Selective resistance and agency among the Hmong in northern Vietnam Sarah Turner and Jean Michaud 4. 'Now the companies have come': Local values and contract farming in northern Thailand Andrew Walker 5. Resisting local inequities: Community-based co…
Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans
The effects of the G.I. Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The empirical evidence suggests that World War II and the availability of G.I. benefits had a substantial and positive impact on the educational attainment of white men and black me…
Research Note: The silenced assistant. Reflections of invisible interpreters and research assistants
Given the increased attention in anthropology and human geography to the positionality and reflexivity of researchers completing fieldwork in foreign countries, it is surprising that we still know relatively little about how research assistants and interpreters are positioned in the field and their own concerns, constraints and coping mechanisms. This article, based on in‐depth interviews with local interpreters/research assistants in Vietnam and…
Choice of Major: The Changing (Unchanging) Gender Gap
Within the arts, sciences, and engineering fields, differences between men and women in choice of college major have not lessened in the past two decades. In this paper, detailed data on choice of major and individual scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) are used to examine the extent to which observed differences between men and women reflect the effects of pre-collegiate preparation (as reflected in SAT scores), as contrasted with a pan…
Street Vendor Livelihoods and Everyday Politics in Hanoi, Vietnam: The Seeds of a Diverse Economy
The alternative ‘diverse economies’ vision of J. K. Gibson-Graham and supporters regarding how people make a living outside the capitalist framework, lists street vendors and informal economies of the global South as potential components. This article critiques the relevance of this vision for street vendor livelihoods in a politically socialist locale, albeit one embracing neo-liberal modernity. In their drive to create a modern, ‘civilised’ cap…
Making a Living the Hmong Way: An Actor-Oriented Livelihoods Approach to Everyday Politics and Resistance in Upland Vietnam
Ethnic minority households in upland northern Vietnam are shaping culturally appropriate rural livelihoods in highly pragmatic ways, as they negotiate the everyday realities of economic liberalization, intertwined with centralized and authoritarian socialist political structures. Notions of “social interface” from actor-oriented analyses, everyday politics, and covert forms of everyday resistance provide a heuristic device to understand the nuanc…
Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much-Or Not Enough
Total student loan debt rose to over $800 billion in June 2010, overtaking total credit card debt outstanding for the first time. By the time this article sees print, the continually updated Student Loan Debt Clock will show an accumulated total of roughly $1 trillion. Borrowing to finance educational expenditures has been increasing-more than quadrupling in real dollars since the early 1990s. The sheer magnitude of these figures has led to incre…
Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
At what price rice? Food security, livelihood vulnerability, and state interventions in upland northern Vietnam
Red stamps and green tea: Fieldwork negotiations and dilemmas in the Sino‐ V ietnamese borderlands
The socialist spaces within the upland Southeast Asian Massif are home to over 70 million people belonging to geographically dispersed and politically fragmented ethnic minority populations. State authorities have long considered these upland margins as frontier regions where ‘inconsequential peoples’ lag behind national standards. Over time, the Chinese and Vietnamese states have worked to enclose these spaces through a range of ‘development’ pr…
Remaking markets in the mountains: Integration, trader agency and resistance in upland northern Vietnam
As part of an ongoing agenda by Vietnamese lawmakers and local state officials to accelerate market integration in the northern mountains, rural marketplaces are being physically and managerially restructured according to standard state-approved models. Moreover, these market directives are coherent with the 'distance demolishing technologies' that James Scott (Citation2009) suggests the state has implemented to bring these uplands more directly …
Dear Diary: Early Career Geographers Collectively Reflect on Their Qualitative Field Research Experiences
After completing a qualitative methods course in geography, we moved classroom discussions into practice. While undertaking graduate fieldwork in sites across the globe, we participated in critical, reflexive journaling. Whereas journal writing is often private, we shared our entries, aiming to facilitate rigour while concurrently exploring similarities and differences. We became conscious of common themes including ethical dilemmas, power relati…
Borderlands and border narratives: A longitudinal study of challenges and opportunities for local traders shaped by the Sino-Vietnamese border
In this article I examine the relevance of utilizing a ‘Zomia-like’ approach to interpreting upland livelihoods in the China–Vietnam borderlands, rather than the more commonly employed nation-state lens. I explore the challenges and opportunities presented by the international borderline between the provinces of Yúnnán, southwest China, and Lào Cai, northern Vietnam, for local populations, namely ethnic minorities Kinh (lowland Vietnamese) and Ha…
Informal motorbike taxi drivers and mobility injustice on Hanoi's streets. Negotiating the curve of a new narrative
Expanding Enrollments and Contracting State Budgets: The Effect of the Great Recession on Higher Education
The Great Recession heightened a growing conflict in the United States between expanding enrollments in postsecondary education and contracting public budget support. Weak labor market conditions during the Great Recession encouraged college enrollments, with much of the increase in enrollment occurring outside the most selective institutions. While federal aid policies, including the Pell grant, became more generous, dramatic reductions in state…
Contending visions of a hill-station in vietnam
Contesting Street Spaces in a Socialist City: Itinerant Vending-Scapes and the Everyday Politics of Mobility in Hanoi, Vietnam
In 2008, Hanoi's municipal government banned street vending from numerous sites, significantly delineating and redefining access to urban space. The ban privileges certain forms of movement by designating streets and sidewalks for the fluid movements of “modern” transportation, rather than the staccato “traditional” mobilities of street vendors who stop frequently to ply their trade. In this article, we explore the everyday mobilities of Hanoi's …
Flex crops or flex livelihoods? The story of a volatile commodity chain in upland northern Vietnam
Despite the multiple usages of star anise, a spice harvested from trees native to northeast Vietnam and southeast China, and notwithstanding its potential as a 'flex crop' due to being a key component in the pharmaceutical production of the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu, little is known about who cultivates this spice and how it reaches consumers around the world. Putting commodity chain analysis literature into conversation with recent 'flex crop'…
Challenges and dilemmas: Fieldwork with upland minorities in socialist Vietnam, Laos and southwest China
The Chinese, Vietnamese and Lao spaces within the upland Southeast Asian massif, sheltering over 80 million people belonging to geographically dispersed and politically fragmented minority populations, have only recently reopened to overseas academic endeavours. Undertaking social sciences research there among ethnic minority groups is underscored by a specific set of challenges, dilemmas, and negotiations. This special issue brings together West…
Yielding to high yields? Critiquing food security definitions and policy implications for ethnic minority livelihoods in upland Vietnam
Negotiating Remote Borderland Access: Small-Scale Trade on the Vietnam-China Border
This article explores the cross-border trading networks and practices of highland residents in north-west Vietnam. It reveals how such individuals, of highland minority and majority Kinh ethnicities, negotiate the political reality of an international border in highly pragmatic ways as they augment their livelihoods by trading commodities with inhabitants in south-west China. We follow four particular commodities, traded across different politica…
Young Entrepreneurs, Social Capital and Doi Moi in Hanoi, Vietnam
Young entrepreneurs establishing enterprises in Hanoi, Vietnam, are faced with an economic environment very different from that of their parents' generation, as doi moi (renovation) introduced in 1986 creates an increasingly capitalist market economy. Drawing on field studies in Hanoi we consider whether such entrepreneurs are able to take advantage of social capital networks-namely, bonding, bridging or linking, or indeed if they are disadvantag…
A good wife stays home’: Gendered negotiations over state agricultural programmes, upland Vietnam
Rural and livelihood studies, alongside development organisations, are stressing the importance of gender awareness in debates over food security, food crises and land tenure. Yet, within the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, these gender dynamics are frequently disregarded. In Vietnam, rice is intimately linked to the country's food security. Over the last decade, rice export levels, production methods, and local and global market prices have remai…
Chinese Indonesians in a rapidly changing nation: Pressures of ethnicity and identity
Throughout periods of political instability and economic adversity - from Dutch colonial rule, through President Suharto's period in office, to more recent times - ethnic Chinese in Indonesia have been recurrent scapegoats for violence. Suharto, especially, manipulated local perceptions of the Chinese in the economic and political arenas, to suit the needs of his government. Yet, circumstances have changed since the 1998 riots in Indonesia and Su…
The Sa Pa marketplace, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam
Sa Pa market, in its current shape, is a typical mainland Southeast Asia highland market. Here, highland produce cultivated or gathered by montagnards dispersed in isolated hamlets is sold to, or exchanged with, other montagnards and lowlanders for various commodities and consumer goods. Over the last few years, a fast growing tourist influx has contributed to modifying the architecture and size of the marketplace, while the range of goods on dis…
The NTEE classification system: Tests of reliability/validity in the field of higher education
An analysis of the field of higher education reveals a surprisingly large number of classification errors within the (US) National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities database. Of the nearly 4,000 non-profit entities coded within the universe of institutions of higher education, we estimate that approximately 60 per cent were incorrectly included ( Type II errors). Institutions incorrectly excluded from the higher education universe ( Type I errors) repr…
The Charitable Nonprofits
Choice of Major: The Changing (Unchanging) Gender Gap
Within the arts, sciences, and engineering fields, differences between men and women in choice of college major have not lessened in the past two decades. In this paper, detailed data on choice of major and individual scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) are used to examine the extent to which observed differences between men and women reflect the effects of pre-collegiate preparation (as reflected in SAT scores), as contrasted with a pan…
Globalisation, the Economic Crisis, and Small Enterprises in Makassar, Indonesia: Focusing on the Local Dimensions
It has been suggested that the economic crisis in Southeast Asia had a severe effect on small scale enterprises in the region. In this paper, I interpret the different consequences of this economic crisis ( krismon ) for small enterprises in the city of Makassar, Sulawesi, in the light of current globalisation debates. It is argued that for the majority of small enterprises, there have not been significant changes because of the relative isolatio…
The Sa Pa marketplace, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam
Sa Pa market, in its current shape, is a typical mainland Southeast Asia highland market. Here, highland produce cultivated or gathered by montagnards dispersed in isolated hamlets is sold to, or exchanged with, other montagnards and lowlanders for various commodities and consumer goods. Over the last few years, a fast growing tourist influx has contributed to modifying the architecture and size of the marketplace, while the range of goods on dis…
"A Comment on "Poor School Funding, Child Poverty, and Mathematics Achievement
Research News And Comment: "A Comment on "Poor School Funding, Child Poverty, and Mathematics Achievement
Winning and Giving: Football Results and Alumni Giving at Selective Private Colleges and Universities
Objective . Our central question is how changes in an institution's football success affect giving behavior. Also, we consider whether former varsity athletes are more or less sensitive in their giving behavior than other alumni to the competitive success of their school and whether such effects differ by type of institution. Methods . Using micro data from 15 academically selective private colleges and universities, the analysis presents fixed‐e…
Going to War and Going to College: Did World War II and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?
The flood of veterans enrolling in college at the end of World War II contributed to widespread rhetoric that the G.I. Bill brought about the “democratization” of American higher education. Whether military service, combined with educational benefits, led World War II veterans to increase their investments in college has received little research attention. Our estimation strategy focuses on between‐cohort differences in military service, and we u…
Mapping ethnic diversity in highland Northern Vietnam
Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans
The effects of the G.I. Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The empirical evidence suggests that World War II and the availability of G.I. benefits had a substantial and positive impact on the educational attainment of white men and black me…
Setting the Scene Speaking Out: Chinese Indonesians After Suharto
This article is an initial analysis of new and re-emerging expressions of identity among ethnic Chinese in Indonesia's contemporary public domain. As long ago as Dutch colonial times in Indonesia, the ethnic Chinese have frequently been the scapegoats for violence, especially during times of political uncertainty and economic hardship. Under President Suharto's rule the identity of the Chinese was politically contested further as Suharto manipula…
Tribulations d'un marché de montagne du Nord-Vietnam
Sur le marché de Sa Pa, dans le Nord-Vietnam, depuis un siècle, les produits agricoles et forestiers apportés des hameaux isolés sont vendus ou échangés par les Montagnards à des Kinh contre des produits de première nécessité et des biens usuels. Récemment, toutefois, la situation s'est complexifiée en raison d'une mainmise de l'État socialiste sur l'économie suivie d'une forte croissance de l'activité touristique dans la région, deux facteurs qu…
Young Entrepreneurs, Social Capital and Doi Moi in Hanoi, Vietnam
Young entrepreneurs establishing enterprises in Hanoi, Vietnam, are faced with an economic environment very different from that of their parents' generation, as doi moi (renovation) introduced in 1986 creates an increasingly capitalist market economy. Drawing on field studies in Hanoi we consider whether such entrepreneurs are able to take advantage of social capital networks-namely, bonding, bridging or linking, or indeed if they are disadvantag…
Nascent Market Capitalism Under Question: Interpretations of Success Among Makassar Entrepreneurs
A vast body of economic and development literature assumes that small enterprises in developing countries exist as a form of nascent market capitalism. Nevertheless, if one considers small scale entrepreneurs’ endogenous definitions of success, the picture becomes less clear. This point is demonstrated through an examination of small-scale enterprises in Makassar, Eastern Indonesia, beginning with an assessment of the extent to which enterprise o…
The changing face of voluntary welfare provision in New Zealand
Coffee House: Habitus and Performance Among Law Students
Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Judith Butler, we develop a detailed ethnography of a social space in a major law school and explore its socialization of the students there. “Coffee House” is a weekly social event sponsored by Canadian law firms and offering free drink and food to the students present. We argue that this event and the actors involved profoundly change student identities and alter educational aspirations. Although the s…
Contending visions of a hill-station in vietnam
Negotiating changing livelihoods: The sampan dwellers of Tam Giang Lagoon, Việt Nam
Methodological issues in the interpretation of constituent order in Early East Slavonic sources
Trading Old Textiles: The Selective Diversification of Highland Livelihoods in Northern Vietnam
This paper aims to advance our understandings of rural Hmong livelihoods in Northern Vietnam. It investigates the local production and trade dynamics that link the livelihoods of a number of highland Hmong minority women in the province of Lao Cai to local, national, and global trade networks. Anchored in ethnographic research, the paper focuses on the actors, exchange systems, and locations implicated in the trade of embroidered fabrics, and how…
Introduction: Indonesia's democratic struggle: Reformasi, otonomi and participasi
Chinese Indonesians in a rapidly changing nation: Pressures of ethnicity and identity
Throughout periods of political instability and economic adversity - from Dutch colonial rule, through President Suharto's period in office, to more recent times - ethnic Chinese in Indonesia have been recurrent scapegoats for violence. Suharto, especially, manipulated local perceptions of the Chinese in the economic and political arenas, to suit the needs of his government. Yet, circumstances have changed since the 1998 riots in Indonesia and Su…
Socialisation in a Space of Law: Student Performativity at 'Coffee House' in a University Law Faculty
Working with ideas of performance and performativity, the geographies of law, and the sociology of the legal profession, this paper reports on a study of the microgeography of a social space in a major Canadian law school, and, more specifically, questions what it means to be a law student there. 'Coffee House' at McGill University Faculty of Law is a weekly social event sponsored for half the academic year by prominent Canadian law firms who sup…
The Persistence of Social Differentiation in the Philippine Uplands
Certain drivers of social and economic differences facilitate the reification of ethnic identity between so-called uplanders and lowlanders on Palawan Island in the Philippines. Drawing on case studies, in this paper we examine how two seemingly distinct social groups – Christian migrants and indigenous Tagbanua – use their respective positions in society to mark differences in ethnic identity and livelihoods. We then argue that as non-government…
Political science (87 works) · Sociology (77 works) · Geography (71 works) · Economics (65 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (53 works) · Livelihood (48 works) · Business (43 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (43 works) · Economic growth (42 works) · Law (36 works)