Alexis Hiêú Truong
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3875871 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexis Hiêú Truong |
| PRENOMES | Alexis Hiêú |
| SOBRENOME | Truong |
| ASSINATURA | TRUONG A H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Uncommon Sense
Frantz Fanon, the radical psychiatrist and anti-colonial philosopher, was not a sociologist but has shaped so much sociological thought. Julian Go reflects on his life, work and significance - including books ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ and ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ - and how he speaks to ideas of what it means to be ‘postcolonial’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ today
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Gifts. What do we do with those we don’t want, or can’t yet use, but don’t just get rid of either? Sophie Woodward on “dormant” gifts, their role in our relationships with each other, ourselves and with time. A conversation about objects, obligation, meaning, and the serious significance of “stuff” in social science and beyond
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What does family life really look like in China? What’s changed and remained since 1949? And why must we challenge Eurocentric assumptions about modernisation and relationships? Sociologist Jieyu Liu joins us to discuss love, family, generations - based on her research with people across three generations in rural and urban China. Plus: a primer on Fei Xiaotong
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What does it mean to “be seen”? Who decides who’s visible, and who gets invisibilised? Anthropologist and ex-taxi driver Shahram Khosravi joins us to reflect on visibility, power, value, and whose knowledge counts
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How have maternal – and grandmaternal – ways of knowing been underacknowledged? What role has sociology’s fixation on its “founding fathers” played? What’s the cost in countries such as South Africa? And why must we de-gender motherhood and recognise that all of us should care? Babalwa Magoqwana joins Uncommon Sense from Gqeberha
Childhood, with Brenda Herbert
Uncommon Sense
From TV's "The Bear" to the simmering restaurant thriller "Boiling Point" we seem drawn to angry-but-vulnerable chefs in pop culture.But how do such stereotypes shape who works in kitchens and how they treat their colleagues?Is "kitchen culture", with its macho rough and tumble norms, always so different from the work culture so many of us face -including in academia?Sociologist Ellen T. Meiser joins us from Hawaii to discuss this and more, refle…
Joy, with Akwugo Emejulu
Joy -with Akwugo EmejuluWhat comes to mind when you think about joy?And can there be joy in protest and refusal?Someone who's been asking and trying to answer questions about this is Akwugo Emejulu.She's been investigating the relationship between Black feminist joy, ambivalence and futures, asking how Black feminists are remixing political media, meanings and messages to co-create manifestos for change.Akwugo has also been mapping the grassroots…
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“What is the effect of receiving something from someone who is not your biological kin?” Anthropologist Delwar Hussain introduces his new project on Queer Inheritance. A conversation about family, the “good death”, kin, relationships and meaning-making. Plus: celebration of Kath Weston’s “Families We Choose”
Rules, with Swethaa Ballakrishnen
Rules -with Swethaa BallakrishnenWhat are rules for?What's at stake if we assume that they're neutral?And if we want rules to be progressive, does it matter who makes them?Socio-legal scholar Swethaa Ballakrishnen joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on this and more, highlighting the value of studying law not just in theory but in action, and drawing on a career spanning law and academia in India and the USA.As the author of "Accidental Feminism", wh…
Burnout, with Hannah Proctor
Burnout -with Hannah ProctorBurnout has become a byword for workplace exhaustion, but does it have a deeper history?Hannah Proctor joins us to explain how the notion emerged in the USA's 1960s countercultural free clinics movement, at first relating to the emotional defeat of idealistic activities but coming to be seen as simply the result of working too hard.It's a story that tracks the trajectory of capitalism itself -as Hannah shows referencin…
Toxic, with Alice Mah
Making, with Kat Jungnickel
Making -with
Privilege, with Shamus Khan
What does privilege look like today?How do the advantaged perform "ease"?And why do some of us feel at home in elite spaces, while others feel awkward?Princeton sociologist Shamus Khan joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on elites, entitlement and more.Reminding us that "poor people are not why there's inequality; rich people are why there's inequality", he highlights the importance of studying elites for studying inequality, as the gap between the t…
Community, with Kirsteen Paton
What's meant -and who's excluded -when community is invoked?Does membership take more than presence alone?How can seeing local crises through a global lens enrich our understanding?Kirsteen Paton joins Uncommon Sense to discuss community, class, resistance, solidarity and more -including her experience of community in the UK cities of Liverpool and Glasgow.As the author of "Class and Everyday Life", Kirsteen gives hosts Alexis and Rosie a fascina…
Life Admin, with Oriana Bernasconi
University in Chile, joins UncommonSense to talk about a more serious side of the term -that of paperwork documenting human rights abuse -as well as a living, breathing archive and the analogue spreadsheet
Margins, with Rhoda Reddock
What gets centred and what gets framed as marginal?Who decides?And what are the consequences?UN expert
Modes de gestion dans les services communautaires. Effets sur les conditions de travail et les difficultés émotionnelles vécues par les intervenant·e·s au Québec
Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons aux difficultés émotionnelles (DÉ) vécues par des professionnel·le·s au cours de la pandémie de la COVID-19 au Québec au sein de trois regroupements d’organisations communautaires œuvrant en santé mentale, en itinérance et auprès de personnes handicapées. Plus précisément, nous étudions les manifestations de burnout (BO), de stress traumatique secondaire (STS) et de détresse psychologique (DP) rapportées pa…
Burnout, stress traumatique secondaire et détresse psychologique chez les intervenant(e)s et les gestionnaires dans le milieu communautaire au Québec. Portrait de la situation pendant la pandémie de l…
Objectifs Cet article s’intéresse aux difficultés émotionnelles (DÉ) vécues par les intervenant(e)s et les gestionnaires oeuvrant dans 3 regroupements d’organisations communautaires (santé mentale, itinérance et pour personnes handicapées) durant la pandémie de la COVID-19 au Québec. Plus spécifiquement, nous documentons les manifestions, parfois concomitantes, de burnout (BO), de stress traumatique secondaire (STS) et de détresse psychologique (…
Sécurité et bien-être des intervenantes fragilisés, sécurité et bien-être des enfants et des familles vulnérabilisés au Québec compromis
Cadre de la recherche : Peu d’études se sont intéressées aux besoins émotionnels des intervenantes sociales, aux exigences émotionnelles dans le cadre de leur travail. Objectifs : Cet article présente certains facteurs des conjonctures sociales et organisationnelles impliqués dans l’augmentation des difficultés émotionnelles (DÉ) des intervenantes sociales. Il présente également les conséquences des DÉ dans les interactions avec les enfants et le…
Uncommon Sense
Does anyone know whatEuropean means?Manuela Boatcă thought she did, until a late 1990s move from Romania to Germany unsettled everything she had taken for granted.Here, she challenges mainstream ideas of "Europe" to show how its borders extend to the Caribbean and beyond -a fact that is obvious if we acknowledge colonialism's past and present, but it is an inconvenient truth for some in political power
Cultural classifications and social divisions
Costume Play and Young Adults’ Socio-Economic Insertion Pathways in Japan
This article shows how young adults’ cultural practices in Japan have become a social trajectory whose study is essential to understanding the life journeys of youths. Costume play, or kosupure , is a form of popular culture mediation that facilitates young people’s social integration and fosters their sense of belonging. Studying these practices helps to better understand and define the changing importance of leisure in Japan in young people’s l…
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Emojis! Feminism! Rage! Sociologist Billy Holzberg joins us to talk about emotion. Why is it dismissed as an obstacle to progress and clear thinking – and to whose benefit? How can we let anger into politics without sanctioning far-right violence? And why are some of us freer than others to play with emotional abjection? Billy reflects on all this and more with Alexis and Rosie, celebrating thinkers from Sara Ahmed to Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois to…
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Public sociologist Michaela Benson on why home matters – from self-build communities in the UK, to young people’s struggle to live in the places they love. Plus: Three novels to make you think differently about security and belonging
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Feminist sociologist Bev Skeggs on why our society should be built around the concept of care, way beyond one-on-one relationships. Plus: What's the harm in self-care? And has Covid-19 taught us anything
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Activist scholar Remi Joseph-Salisbury on what makes for a real education. Is school an enabler or a labeller? What’s policing got to do with the classroom? Plus: the pop culture trope of the super teacher
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Does anyone know whatEuropean means?Manuela Boatcă thought she did, until a late 1990s move from Romania to Germany unsettled everything she had taken for granted.Here, she challenges mainstream ideas of "Europe" to show how its borders extend to the Caribbean and beyond -a fact that is obvious if we acknowledge colonialism's past and present, but it is an inconvenient truth for some in political power
Anxiety, with Nicky Falkof
Anxiety is part of contemporary life, yet rarely seen as anything other than personal and intimately psychological. Cultural Studies scholar Nicky Falkof joins us to discuss her work on fear and anxiety in South Africa, and how such negative emotions are often collective and collectively constructedand relate deeply to our identities. Indeed, as Nicky tells us, if you ask yourself what or whom you're scared of, you quickly face the question of wh…
Uncommon Sense
Listening -with Les BackWhat does it mean to really listen in a society obsessed with spectacle?What's hidden when powerful people claim to "hear" or "give voice" to others?And what's at stake if we think that using fancy recording devices helps us to neatly capture "truth"?Les Back -author of "The Art of Listening" -tells Alexis and Rosie why listening to society is crucial, but cautions that there's nothing inherently superior about the hearing…
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Breakups -with
Performance, with Kareem Khubchandani
From Shakespeare to RuPaul, we all love a performance.But what exactly is it?What are its boundaries, its powers, its potential, its stakes?Kareem Khubchandani, who also performs as LaWhore Vagistan -"everyone's favourite desi drag queen aunty" -joins Uncommon Sense to unpack the latest thinking on refusal, repetition and more.And to discuss "Ishtyle", Kareem's ethnography of gay Indian nightlife in Chicago and Bangalore, which attends to desire …
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What makes "good" taste?Who decides?And what's it got to do
Nature, with Catherine Oliver
It is increasingly accepted that we cannot take nature for granted. But do we even know what nature is? Catherine Oliver brings her expertise in geography and sociology – plus her love of chickens – to the latest Uncommon Sense to reflect on what’s at stake in how we think of and relate to “nature” – and how we might do better. Along the way, she considers what happens when neoliberalism shapes what “good” nature is – whether in regeneration or m…
Success, with Jo Littler
If you're talented and work hard, success (whatever that is) will be yours!"-So says the powerful system and ideology known as "meritocracy".But if only it were so simple!Jo Littler joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on where this idea came from, how it became mainstream, and how it gets used by elites to convince us we live in a system that is open and fair when the reality is anything but that.But Jo also shows things are changing.Since the crash …
Spirituality, with Andrew Singleton
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Emotions in Pedagogical Practice
Emotions and relationality can serve important pedagogical purposes.Paying close attention to the ways in which emotions are implicated in our pedagogical practice can aid in the development of connections with and between students, which contributes to fostering a sense of collectivity in the carceral classroom that encourages students to learn from and with one another.We situate this as a form of relational ethics, which we exemplify using the…
Les diagnostics psychiatriques reçus par des femmes ayant vécu de la violence sexiste
Les diagnostics psychiatriques reçus par des femmes ayant vécu de la violence sexiste : une réponse adaptée à leurs besoins?. Un article de la revue Recherches féministes (Psychologisation de l’oppression) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Rules, with Swethaa Ballakrishnen
Rules -with Swethaa BallakrishnenWhat are rules for?What's at stake if we assume that they're neutral?And if we want rules to be progressive, does it matter who makes them?Socio-legal scholar Swethaa Ballakrishnen joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on this and more, highlighting the value of studying law not just in theory but in action, and drawing on a career spanning law and academia in India and the USA.As the author of "Accidental Feminism", wh…
Burnout, with Hannah Proctor
Burnout -with Hannah ProctorBurnout has become a byword for workplace exhaustion, but does it have a deeper history?Hannah Proctor joins us to explain how the notion emerged in the USA's 1960s countercultural free clinics movement, at first relating to the emotional defeat of idealistic activities but coming to be seen as simply the result of working too hard.It's a story that tracks the trajectory of capitalism itself -as Hannah shows referencin…
Toxic, with Alice Mah
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