Development in spirit: religious transformation and everyday politics in Vietnam's highlands
In: New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies
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In: New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies
In: South-East Asia research, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 397-399
ISSN: 2043-6874
In: South-East Asia research, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 541-542
ISSN: 2043-6874
In: Asian studies review, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 234-253
ISSN: 1467-8403
In: European journal of East Asian studies, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 57-82
ISSN: 1570-0615
Abstract
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 understandings about the means to development as well as new religious teaching on prosperity, entrepreneurialism and calculativity in a rapidly developing Hmong village, this paper queries the 'elective affinity' between new Christian movements and neoliberalism posited by other scholars. The case study highlights the awkward combination of 'cooperative competitiveness' accompanying a community-benefit tourism development model. Hmong Christian activity can both overlap and sit at odds with government agendas and market expansion, resulting in complex transformations and subjectivities which cannot simply be reduced to neoliberal logic.
In: South-East Asia research, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 486-488
ISSN: 2043-6874
In: Asian affairs, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 304-308
ISSN: 1477-1500
In: Asian affairs: journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 304-308
ISSN: 0306-8374
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 mechanisms of influence over water puppetry, the politics of representation within Vietnam's art and performance sector are exposed. (Asian Aff/GIGA)
World Affairs Online
In: Forum qualitative Sozialforschung: FQS = Forum: qualitative social research, Band 25, Heft 1
ISSN: 1438-5627
In den letzten Jahren haben Debatten über die Positionalität von Forscher*innen in akademischen Kreisen zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Trotz dieser verstärkten Fokussierung auf Fragen nach der Auswirkung von deren Anwesenheit auf den Forschungsprozess und -ergebnis gibt es weiterhin Themen, die tendenziell gemieden werden, so etwa die Auswirkung von Alkohol auf den Forschungsprozess. In vorliegenden Veröffentlichungen werden zwar verschiedene Aspekte in Bezug darauf erörtert, wie Forschende mit Alkoholkonsum während der Feldforschung umgehen. Es wird jedoch nicht auf die Rolle von Religion eingegangen, eine bemerkenswerte Lücke angesichts der Prävalenz religiöser Gründe für Abstinenz. In diesem Artikel bauen wir daher auf vorhandene Literatur auf und diskutieren zwei Fallstudien mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Religion, die dazu beitragen, das Verständnis der Rolle von Alkoholkonsum und Abstinenz während der Feldforschung zu vertiefen. Basierend auf einem kollaborativen autoethnografischen Ansatz sowie unseren Feldforschungserfahrungen als muslimische Frau im Libanon und christlicher Mann in Vietnam diskutieren wir, wie Religion das Verhältnis mit Forschungsteilnehmenden sowie Insider-/Outsider-Dynamiken während der Feldforschung beeinflusst. Wir schließen mit Empfehlungen, wie akademische Einrichtungen Studierende und Mitarbeiter*innen (unabhängig von deren [nicht-] religiöser Identität) besser unterstützen können, wenn es darum geht, mit Alkoholkonsum während der Feldforschung - und darüber hinaus - umzugehen.
In: Qualitative research, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 525-547
ISSN: 1741-3109
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 fieldwork challenges, opportunities and insights. We then discuss the ambivalence faced by religious researchers within the highly secularised academic environment, thus blurring the artificial dichotomy between 'the field' and the academy. Our reflections centre around three findings: (1) the importance of taking an intersectional approach which neither essentialises nor ignores religious aspects of positionality, whilst also being sensitive to spatial and temporal shifts in how they interact with a researcher's gender, ethnicity, class and other identifiers; (2) the opportunities and perils of a researcher's apparent religious common ground with participants (or lack thereof) in building rapport and negotiating a degree of insider status; and (3) the similarities and differences between suspicions of religious partialism during fieldwork and within academia.