Max Planck Institut für ethnologische Forschung

Publications

Monograph (1)

Monograph

Nguyen, Minh T. N. 2019. Waste and wealth: an ethnography of labor, value, and morality in a Vietnamese recycling economy. Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Interview (1)

Interview

Nguyen, Minh T. N. 2019. 10 questions for Minh Nguyen. Interview by Stefan Schwendtner. The Alumni Interview. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. https://www.eth.mpg.de/eth/en/newsarchiv/alumni-interview-nguyen.

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External

Contact

Minh Nguyen

In press, Accepted (Forthcoming)

Forthcoming

Special issue, Beyond the Global Care Chain: Boundaries, Institutions and Ethics of Care, with Roberta Zavoretti. Accepted for third issue of 2017, Journal of Ethics and Social Welfare.

The Caring State? On Welfare Governance in Rural Vietnam and China, with Meixuan Chen. In Beyond the Global Care Chain: Boundaries, Institutions and Ethics of Care, eds. Minh T.N. Nguyen and Roberta Zavoretti. Journal of Ethics and Social Welfare.

Monograph, Waste and Wealth: Labour, Value and Morality in a Vietnamese Migrant Recycling Economy. Under contract with Oxford University Press.

Invited book review, Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace by Ann Marie Leshkowich, Hawai’i University Press. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.

Under review

Money, Risk Taking and Playing: Shifting Masculinity in a Waste-trading Community in Northern Vietnam. In Endres, Kirsten and Leshkowich, Anna-Marie (eds) Traders in Motion: Networks, Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace. Cornell University Press

Presentations, Lectures

Jul. 2016
Waste and Wealth: Labour, Value and Morality in a Vietnamese Migrant Recycling Economy. Panel ‘Works that matter (not): valuing productivity through and against the market’ European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference, Milan, Italy

Jun. 2016
In a “Half-dark, Half-light Zone”: Mobility, Precarity and Moral Ambiguity in Post-reform Vietnam’s Urban Waste Economy. IAMO Forum 2016. Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transitional Economies, Germany

Apr. 2016
The ‘Socialization’ of What? Socialist Morality and New-prudentialism in Post-reform Vietnam. Invited lecture. Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Dec. 2015
Discussant, international workshop Southeast Asian Intersections: Labour Migration, Translocality, and Regional Dynamics, Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne, Germany

Nov. 2015
Panel ‘Gender and Economic Activities in Marketized Socialist China and Vietnam’, American Anthropological Association 2015 conference, Denver, USA (with IChieh Fang)

Dirt, Waste, Women, Men: Gender, Class and Migrant Labour in Urban Vietnam’s Waste and Domestic Work Sectors. American Anthropological Association 2015 conference, Denver, USA

Aug. 2015
Panel ‘How is Migrant Labour Changing Rural Southeast Asia? Translocality, Hybridity, and Emerging Categories’, with Oliver Tappe and Roy Huijsmans. Euroseas Conference. University of Vienna, Austria

‘The Countryside Can Only Be New When People’s Pockets Are Full’: Narratives of Entrepreneurship, Local Development and Social Aspirations. Euroseas Conference. University of Vienna, Austria

Apr. 2015
‘Masculinity and Migration in a Waste-trading Community of the Red River Delta’. Invited lecture. Hanoi: Institute of Cultural Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Science, Vietnam

Sept. 2014
‘Money, Risk Taking and Playing: Shifting Masculinity in a Waste-trading Community in Northern Vietnam’. Traders in Motion: Networks, Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace Conference. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany

Jul. 2014
International Conference Beyond the Global Care Chain: Boundaries, Institutions, and Ethics of Care, with Roberta Zavoretti. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany

‘The Caring State? On Welfare Governance in Rural Vietnam and China’. Beyond the Global Care Chain: Boundaries, Institutions, and Ethics of Care Conference (with Meixuan Chen). Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany

Feb. 2014
‘‘Đi chợ’ and ‘Mở Bãi’: Performance and Space Production in a Northern Vietnamese Rural-Urban Waste Economy’. Invited lecture, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK

Dec. 2013
‘Biographic Narratives of Female Domestic Workers in Hanoi: Mobility, Identity and Social Transformation in Post/Late Socialist Vietnam’. Workshop on Risks, Ruptures, and Uncertainties: Dealing with Crisis in Asia's Emerging Economies. Institute of Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

July 2013
Panel ‘Migration and the Vietnamese Family: Shifting Structures, Relations and Identities’, with Catherine Locke and Lan Anh Hoang. Euroseas Conference. Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

‘Negotiating with Institutions of Care: Migrant Households and the Commodification of Care Entitlements in Northern Vietnam’. Euroseas Conference. Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

July 2012
‘Care and Migration in Northern Vietnam: Migrant Family Strategies, Gender Relations, and Intergenerational Exchanges’. Invited lecture. Institute of Anthropology, Vietnam Academy of Social Science, Vietnam

Nov. 2009
‘Live in, Live out, Live in the Middle of Nowhere: Migrant and Non-migrant Domestic Workers in Hanoi’. Vietnam Update Conference. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia

Miscellaneous

In process

The ‘Socialization’ of What? Socialist Morality and New-prudentialism in Post-reform Vietnam

‘The Countryside Can Only Be New When People's Pockets Are Full’: Narratives of Entrepreneurship, Local Development and Social Aspirations

Dirt, Waste, Women, Men: Gender, Class and Migrant Labour in Urban Vietnam's Waste and Domestic Work Sectors

In a "Half-dark, Half-light Zone": Mobility, Precarity and Moral Uncertainty in Post-reform Vietnam's Urban Waste Economy

Special issue, Southeast Asian Trajectories of Labour Mobility: Translocality, Precarity and Resilience, with Oliver Tappe