Enacting nationalism through youthful mobilities? Youth, mobile phones and digital capitalism in aLao‐Vietnamese borderland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6307253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Huijsmans (0000-0003-1684-2694, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam The Hague The Netherlands), Trần Thị Hà Lan (Independent researcher Dong Ha Quang Tri Vietnam) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 209-229 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nations and Nationalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/nana.12095 |
| OpenAlex | W1947213255 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 25 |
Mobile phone use has become a defining feature of what it means to be young, and the relatively remoteLao‐Vietnamese borderland area that is the focus of this study is no exception. Drawing onBenedictAnderson'sImagined Communities, this article investigates the interplay between the everyday styles of being young, the forces of digital capitalism and the enactment of nationalism. We do this with a focus on ethnic minority youth's appropriation of the mobile services offered byViettel, the most popular mobile services provider in the study area and owned by theVietnameseMinistry ofDefence. We suggest that the everyday performances of being young, revolving around the mobile phone, are affected by the forces of digital capitalism. We further suggest that the cultural context ofViettel's digital capitalism is embedded in a fabric ofVietnamese nationalism, leading ethnic minority youth, consciously and unconsciously, to enact nationalism through their everyday styles of being young
Appropriation · Archaeology · Capitalism · Context (archaeology · Ethnic group · Everyday life · Mobile phone · Mobilities · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Telecommunications · Anthropology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Nationhood in/through digital education
Monetised childhoods
Rural Life in Late Socialism
Rural Schooling and Good Life in Late Socialist Laos
Becoming mobile and growing up
Banal and everyday nationalisms in children’s mundane and institutional lives
Making markets gendered
Dreaming the ‘Chinese dream’
Introduction
Native History and Nation Building on Personal Online Platform
Tailor-made nationalism
Migrating fish and mobile knowledge
Pedagogy of nation
Reimagining national identity in neoliberal education
The Art of Not Being Governed
Being Young and Muslim
At the Edges of States
Education as a Political Tool in Asia
Schooling Passions
Reassembling the Social
Celling India
Challenges and dilemmas
State–society relations in contemporary Vietnam
Chinese and Vietnamese Youth in the 1990s
The (Transformative) Impacts of the Vietnam War and the Communist Revolution in a Border Region in Southeastern Laos
Geographies of global telephony in the age of the internet
From the banal to the blatant
Nation/Representation
Sex, Cannibals, and the Language of Cool
From revolutionary heroism to cultural heritage
Mobile Phones
Everyday nationhood
Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance
The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance
The Legend of the Golden Boat
We are the border
Youth Privilege
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |