Ann Ngoc Tran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3889265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Ngoc Tran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann Ngoc |
| FAMILY NAME | Tran |
| SIGNATURE | TRAN A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | PhD Candidate, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-2965-6181 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Political Groceries: Supermarkets and Refugee Consumers in Little Saigon
Supermarkets in California Orange County’s Little Saigon are key sites in the negotiation of ethnic identity in Vietnamese refugee communities. Vietnamese supermarkets operate within global capitalist frameworks, while simultaneously serving as local spaces where community dynamics and ethnic identities are continuously redefined. This article outlines the economic, political, and social systems that structure refugee lives and undergird their ri…
Imperial Gift
This article theorizes and historicizes soap, a medical "gift" distributed by the US military to villages and hamlets in South Vietnam, as a commodity and as an infrastructure in the American war in Vietnam. During the war, soap not only operated as a tool to clean those the US military deemed dirty and uncivilized but also brokered the ideological movement of empire from the nation-state to the occupied regions of the Vietnamese South. Wartime U…
Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia
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Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia
Imperial Gift
This article theorizes and historicizes soap, a medical "gift" distributed by the US military to villages and hamlets in South Vietnam, as a commodity and as an infrastructure in the American war in Vietnam. During the war, soap not only operated as a tool to clean those the US military deemed dirty and uncivilized but also brokered the ideological movement of empire from the nation-state to the occupied regions of the Vietnamese South. Wartime U…
Political Groceries: Supermarkets and Refugee Consumers in Little Saigon
Supermarkets in California Orange County’s Little Saigon are key sites in the negotiation of ethnic identity in Vietnamese refugee communities. Vietnamese supermarkets operate within global capitalist frameworks, while simultaneously serving as local spaces where community dynamics and ethnic identities are continuously redefined. This article outlines the economic, political, and social systems that structure refugee lives and undergird their ri…
Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (3 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Refugee (2 works) · Afterlife (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Business (1 works)