Rumsby
Biographic Data
| ID | 47692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rumsby |
| FAMILY NAME | Rumsby |
| SIGNATURE | RUMSBY |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8190-4874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Internalization and contestation of ‘bare life’ and illegality within undocumented Vietnamese migrants’ discourse in Germany and the UK
The past 30 years has witnessed the growth of a sizable population of precarious Vietnamese migrants in Europe who hail from rural or working-class backgrounds and arrive via illicit border crossings. Informal Vietnamese-language terms used for the lack of legal status or right to work include the pejorative ‘người rơm’ (strawman) in the UK and ‘không quần aó’ (naked) in Germany, evoking Agamben’s state of ‘bare life’. In this article, we explore…
Social Mobility, Competition, Citizenship, and Brokerage on Different Margins of Vietnamese Society
Freedom within the framework’? The everyday politics of religion, state repression and migration in Vietnam’s borderlands and beyond
How do peripheral, 'voiceless' people engage with politics in authoritarian contexts where formal politics is not a viable option?This article demonstrates the value of applying an everyday politics perspective to grassroots religious activity and mobilities, by providing an in-depth case study of a recently Christianised ethnic minority group based in Vietnam's politically sensitive borderlands.In the face of religious persecution and social con…
Religious positionalities and political science research in 'the field' and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK
This article contributes to the growing literature on researcher reflexivity by broaching the often-ignored issue of religious positionalities within political science, as well as speaking to the methodological implications of researching religion more broadly. We present and compare two autoethnographic case studies of research on politico-religious conflict in Vietnam and Lebanon, exploring how a researcher's religiosity presents unique fieldwo…
Alternative development trajectories? A quantitative analysis of religion as a vector of mobility and education among the Hmong in upland Vietnam
Hmong Christian elites as political and development brokers: Competition, cooperation and mimesis in Vietnam’s highlands
This article focuses on the role of new Hmong religious leaders – predominantly young men – who have played an important role in spreading Protestant Christianity across Vietnam’s highlands over the past 30 years. These pastors and evangelists have directly challenged the authority of previously established Hmong local elites, whose legitimacy rested on traditional religious authority and/or state patronage, causing significant social conflict al…
Hmong Christianisation, the Will to Improve and the Question of Neoliberalism in Vietnam’s Highlands
This article focuses on the convergence of mass Christianisation and economic transformations among the Hmong of Vietnam’s northern highlands over the past thirty years. A history of impoverishment and ethnic discrimination has led hundreds of thousands of Hmong to follow Christianity as a perceived alternative path to progress instead of the state-led development agenda, despite sharing the same ‘will to improve’. By exploring local understandin…
Historical Continuities and Changes in the Ethnic Politics of Hmong-Miao Millenarianism
Millenarian movements used to be regarded as native reactions to enormous social disruptions caused by colonial intrusion, doomed to failure and at best a step on the way to more “modern” forms of collective social resistance. In fact, they have both pre-dated and outlasted colonialism, featuring in ethnic politics across Asia and beyond to this day. Nevertheless, its encounter with modernity has not left millenarianism unchanged, as is shown in …
Rumours, sects and rallies: The ethnic politics of recent Hmong Millenarian movements in Vietnam's highlands
Contrary to modernist assumptions, millenarianism has not died out but continues to influence the politics of many marginalised groups in upland Southeast Asia, including the Hmong. This article summarises and analyses post-World War II Hmong millenarian activity in Vietnam, focusing on three case studies from the 1980s onwards, within the political backdrop of ongoing government suspicions of ethnic separatism and foreign interference. Far from …
Tâm T. T. Ngô. The New Way: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam
Methods of Manipulation: Propaganda, Ethnicity and Representation in Vietnamese Water Puppetry
Water puppetry has become an iconic representation of Vietnam, and Hanoi's Thăng Long Water Puppet Theatre is flourishing as part of the international tourist package. This article documents the radical modification in this theatre's performance themes in 2013 – from traditional to explicitly ethnicised – and subsequent reversion the following year. In exploring the possible role of state propaganda in these changes, and the government's mechanis…
Rumours, sects and rallies: The ethnic politics of recent Hmong Millenarian movements in Vietnam's highlands
Contrary to modernist assumptions, millenarianism has not died out but continues to influence the politics of many marginalised groups in upland Southeast Asia, including the Hmong. This article summarises and analyses post-World War II Hmong millenarian activity in Vietnam, focusing on three case studies from the 1980s onwards, within the political backdrop of ongoing government suspicions of ethnic separatism and foreign interference. Far from …
Hmong Christianisation, the Will to Improve and the Question of Neoliberalism in Vietnam’s Highlands
This article focuses on the convergence of mass Christianisation and economic transformations among the Hmong of Vietnam’s northern highlands over the past thirty years. A history of impoverishment and ethnic discrimination has led hundreds of thousands of Hmong to follow Christianity as a perceived alternative path to progress instead of the state-led development agenda, despite sharing the same ‘will to improve’. By exploring local understandin…
Religious positionalities and political science research in 'the field' and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK
This article contributes to the growing literature on researcher reflexivity by broaching the often-ignored issue of religious positionalities within political science, as well as speaking to the methodological implications of researching religion more broadly. We present and compare two autoethnographic case studies of research on politico-religious conflict in Vietnam and Lebanon, exploring how a researcher's religiosity presents unique fieldwo…
Alternative development trajectories? A quantitative analysis of religion as a vector of mobility and education among the Hmong in upland Vietnam
Freedom within the framework’? The everyday politics of religion, state repression and migration in Vietnam’s borderlands and beyond
How do peripheral, 'voiceless' people engage with politics in authoritarian contexts where formal politics is not a viable option?This article demonstrates the value of applying an everyday politics perspective to grassroots religious activity and mobilities, by providing an in-depth case study of a recently Christianised ethnic minority group based in Vietnam's politically sensitive borderlands.In the face of religious persecution and social con…
Methods of Manipulation: Propaganda, Ethnicity and Representation in Vietnamese Water Puppetry
Water puppetry has become an iconic representation of Vietnam, and Hanoi's Thăng Long Water Puppet Theatre is flourishing as part of the international tourist package. This article documents the radical modification in this theatre's performance themes in 2013 – from traditional to explicitly ethnicised – and subsequent reversion the following year. In exploring the possible role of state propaganda in these changes, and the government's mechanis…
Tâm T. T. Ngô. The New Way: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam
Rumours, sects and rallies: The ethnic politics of recent Hmong Millenarian movements in Vietnam's highlands
Contrary to modernist assumptions, millenarianism has not died out but continues to influence the politics of many marginalised groups in upland Southeast Asia, including the Hmong. This article summarises and analyses post-World War II Hmong millenarian activity in Vietnam, focusing on three case studies from the 1980s onwards, within the political backdrop of ongoing government suspicions of ethnic separatism and foreign interference. Far from …
Hmong Christian elites as political and development brokers: Competition, cooperation and mimesis in Vietnam’s highlands
This article focuses on the role of new Hmong religious leaders – predominantly young men – who have played an important role in spreading Protestant Christianity across Vietnam’s highlands over the past 30 years. These pastors and evangelists have directly challenged the authority of previously established Hmong local elites, whose legitimacy rested on traditional religious authority and/or state patronage, causing significant social conflict al…
Hmong Christianisation, the Will to Improve and the Question of Neoliberalism in Vietnam’s Highlands
This article focuses on the convergence of mass Christianisation and economic transformations among the Hmong of Vietnam’s northern highlands over the past thirty years. A history of impoverishment and ethnic discrimination has led hundreds of thousands of Hmong to follow Christianity as a perceived alternative path to progress instead of the state-led development agenda, despite sharing the same ‘will to improve’. By exploring local understandin…
Historical Continuities and Changes in the Ethnic Politics of Hmong-Miao Millenarianism
Millenarian movements used to be regarded as native reactions to enormous social disruptions caused by colonial intrusion, doomed to failure and at best a step on the way to more “modern” forms of collective social resistance. In fact, they have both pre-dated and outlasted colonialism, featuring in ethnic politics across Asia and beyond to this day. Nevertheless, its encounter with modernity has not left millenarianism unchanged, as is shown in …
Alternative development trajectories? A quantitative analysis of religion as a vector of mobility and education among the Hmong in upland Vietnam
Freedom within the framework’? The everyday politics of religion, state repression and migration in Vietnam’s borderlands and beyond
How do peripheral, 'voiceless' people engage with politics in authoritarian contexts where formal politics is not a viable option?This article demonstrates the value of applying an everyday politics perspective to grassroots religious activity and mobilities, by providing an in-depth case study of a recently Christianised ethnic minority group based in Vietnam's politically sensitive borderlands.In the face of religious persecution and social con…
Religious positionalities and political science research in 'the field' and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK
This article contributes to the growing literature on researcher reflexivity by broaching the often-ignored issue of religious positionalities within political science, as well as speaking to the methodological implications of researching religion more broadly. We present and compare two autoethnographic case studies of research on politico-religious conflict in Vietnam and Lebanon, exploring how a researcher's religiosity presents unique fieldwo…
Internalization and contestation of ‘bare life’ and illegality within undocumented Vietnamese migrants’ discourse in Germany and the UK
The past 30 years has witnessed the growth of a sizable population of precarious Vietnamese migrants in Europe who hail from rural or working-class backgrounds and arrive via illicit border crossings. Informal Vietnamese-language terms used for the lack of legal status or right to work include the pejorative ‘người rơm’ (strawman) in the UK and ‘không quần aó’ (naked) in Germany, evoking Agamben’s state of ‘bare life’. In this article, we explore…
Social Mobility, Competition, Citizenship, and Brokerage on Different Margins of Vietnamese Society
Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)