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- 2018
- Book Title
- Waste and Wealth: An Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality...
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
019069260X
ISBN-13
9780190692605
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038294850
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Publication Name
Waste and Wealth : an Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy
Language
English
Subject
Environmental / Waste Management, Emigration & Immigration, Economics / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Business & Economics
Series
Issues of Globalization:Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2018-028851
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Waste and Wealth is a fascinating ethnography, which provides detailed accounts of the lives of migrant waste traders in postsocialist Vietnam. Against the backdrop of Vietnam's transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, Minh T. N. Nguyen seeks to illustrate how the entanglement of global market forces and Vietnamese sociocultural norms shapes the moral lives of waste traders." -- Justin Lau, Exertions"Waste and Wealth is an outstanding ethnography brimming with vivid details and insights about the lives of Vietnamese waste traders. Tracing the livelihood strategies, hopes, dreams, and struggles of Spring Village traders, Minh Nguyen takes readers on a riveting series of journeys throughout the nation's capital city, Hanoi, and surrounding areas. It is a story of hard, dirty labor, but also of resilience, social mobility, and economic uplift. Thewaste traders in this book are not only turning waste into gold, but literally remaking themselves, their village, and Vietnam's new rural economy."--Erik Lind Harms, Yale University"With this compellingly written and highly original ethnography, Nguyen shows how informal recyclers remake themselves, their relationships, and their circumstances, laying to rest the assumptions that waste is inherently worthless and that those who work with it are doomed to abject poverty. The book is clearly written, demonstrating complex entanglements of dirty work, class aspirations, and gender politics in a post-socialist context."--Joshua Reno,Binghamton University"The ethnography is skillfully crafted, drawing readers into people's lives with a keen appreciation of how they juggle competing moralities and demands on their lives. Nguyen's theoretical contribution is deft, efficient, and--as with the best ethnography--lightly and dexterously woven through her material."--Catherine Alexander, Durham University, "Waste and Wealth is a fascinating ethnography, which provides detailed accounts of the lives of migrant waste traders in postsocialist Vietnam. Against the backdrop of Vietnam's transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, Minh T. N. Nguyen seeks to illustrate how the entanglement of global market forces and Vietnamese sociocultural norms shapes the moral lives of waste traders." -- Justin Lau, Exertions"Waste and Wealth is an outstanding ethnography brimming with vivid details and insights about the lives of Vietnamese waste traders. Tracing the livelihood strategies, hopes, dreams, and struggles of Spring Village traders, Minh Nguyen takes readers on a riveting series of journeys throughout the nation's capital city, Hanoi, and surrounding areas. It is a story of hard, dirty labor, but also of resilience, social mobility, and economic uplift. The waste traders in this book are not only turning waste into gold, but literally remaking themselves, their village, and Vietnam's new rural economy."--Erik Lind Harms, Yale University "With this compellingly written and highly original ethnography, Nguyen shows how informal recyclers remake themselves, their relationships, and their circumstances, laying to rest the assumptions that waste is inherently worthless and that those who work with it are doomed to abject poverty. The book is clearly written, demonstrating complex entanglements of dirty work, class aspirations, and gender politics in a post-socialist context."--Joshua Reno, Binghamton University "The ethnography is skillfully crafted, drawing readers into people's lives with a keen appreciation of how they juggle competing moralities and demands on their lives. Nguyen's theoretical contribution is deft, efficient, and--as with the best ethnography--lightly and dexterously woven through her material."--Catherine Alexander, Durham University, "Waste and Wealth is an outstanding ethnography brimming with vivid details and insights about the lives of Vietnamese waste traders. Tracing the livelihood strategies, hopes, dreams, and struggles of Spring Village traders, Minh Nguyen takes readers on a riveting series of journeys throughout the nation's capital city, Hanoi, and surrounding areas. It is a story of hard, dirty labor, but also of resilience, social mobility, and economic uplift. The waste traders in this book are not only turning waste into gold, but literally remaking themselves, their village, and Vietnam's new rural economy."--Erik Lind Harms, Yale University "With this compellingly written and highly original ethnography, Nguyen shows how informal recyclers remake themselves, their relationships, and their circumstances, laying to rest the assumptions that waste is inherently worthless and that those who work with it are doomed to abject poverty. The book is clearly written, demonstrating complex entanglements of dirty work, class aspirations, and gender politics in a post-socialist context."--Joshua Reno, Binghamton University "The ethnography is skillfully crafted, drawing readers into people's lives with a keen appreciation of how they juggle competing moralities and demands on their lives. Nguyen's theoretical contribution is deft, efficient, and--as with the best ethnography--lightly and dexterously woven through her material."--Catherine Alexander, Durham University, "Waste and Wealth is a fascinating ethnography, which provides detailed accounts of the lives of migrant waste traders in postsocialist Vietnam. Against the backdrop of Vietnam's transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, Minh T. N. Nguyen seeks to illustrate how the entanglement of global market forces and Vietnamese sociocultural norms shapes the moral lives of waste traders." -- Justin Lau, Exertions "Waste and Wealth is an outstanding ethnography brimming with vivid details and insights about the lives of Vietnamese waste traders. Tracing the livelihood strategies, hopes, dreams, and struggles of Spring Village traders, Minh Nguyen takes readers on a riveting series of journeys throughout the nation's capital city, Hanoi, and surrounding areas. It is a story of hard, dirty labor, but also of resilience, social mobility, and economic uplift. The waste traders in this book are not only turning waste into gold, but literally remaking themselves, their village, and Vietnam's new rural economy."--Erik Lind Harms, Yale University "With this compellingly written and highly original ethnography, Nguyen shows how informal recyclers remake themselves, their relationships, and their circumstances, laying to rest the assumptions that waste is inherently worthless and that those who work with it are doomed to abject poverty. The book is clearly written, demonstrating complex entanglements of dirty work, class aspirations, and gender politics in a post-socialist context."--Joshua Reno, Binghamton University "The ethnography is skillfully crafted, drawing readers into people's lives with a keen appreciation of how they juggle competing moralities and demands on their lives. Nguyen's theoretical contribution is deft, efficient, and--as with the best ethnography--lightly and dexterously woven through her material."--Catherine Alexander, Durham University
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
338.476284458095973
Table Of Content
Preface Field Research Researching People on the Move Credits and AcknowledgementsIntroduction Migrant Labor under Market Socialism: The Rise of the Peasant EntrepreneurWaste Global: Geographies of Recycling and Human EconomiesThe Political Economy of RemakingMorality and Political EconomyWaste, Labor and the Politics of Value--Revaluing Waste--The Labor of Waste: Gender, Class, and Performance Exemplary Society and the Politics of Morality Desires, Aspirations, and Fictional ExpectationsOverview of the ChaptersPART I: WASTEChapter 1. Mobility, Networks, and Gendered Householding Householding, Networks, and ReciprocityCities as the New Economic ZoneWaste Networks: Money, Reciprocity, and DistanceStaying at Home and Going Outside: Choice, Decision and Power Inside and Outside: The Gender of Space "Going Outside" and Remaking Gendered SpacesNegotiating Boundaries and Remaking Gendered IdealsGendered Mobility and GenerationSons, Daughters and the Limits of Mobility Waste as a Frontier of Patrilineal FamilyConclusion: Translocality, Networks, and the Remaking of Gendered Spaces Chapter 2. Labor, Economy and Urban Space The Itinerant Junk Trader and Changing Urban Waste ProductionThe Waste Hierarchy and the Promiscuity of WasteWaste, Migrant Labor, and the Spatialization of Class in HanoiGendered Performance of Class as Access to Urban SpacesThe "Miserable Migrant": Stereotype as Bargaining ChipAppliances versus Junk: Technology, Gendered Spaces, and ValueThe Waste Depot: Place Making, Gender, and ClassPlace Making in Ambiguous SpacesInside and Outside, AgainMoving Up: Matters of Dirt and LaborConclusion: Class, Gender and Urban Space RemakingChapter 3. Uncertainty, Ambiguity and the Ethic of Risk-Taking Economy of Uncertainty: Pricing, Tenure and Geography of Urban WasteDangers in the Zones of Ambiguity Fake WasteState AgentsStolen Goods and Thugs Men on the Highway and the Art of Making LawConclusion: Ambiguity, Risk Taking, and Remaking the Urban Order PART II: WEALTHChapter 4. Mobility, Moral Discourses, and the Anxiety of Care Is It Better to be Uneducated and Rich? Mutually Exclusionary DiscoursesCaring and Being Cared For in Translocal HouseholdsWho Cares for the Kids? Grandparenting, Gender, and Never-Ending WorriesWhen Grandparents Need Care"Social Evils" and the Disruption of Care Conclusion: Care, Anxiety and the Remaking of Moral ObligationsChapter 5. Rural Entrepreneurship, Local Development and Social AspirationsA Shifting Approach to Local DevelopmentBuilding the New Countryside from Urban WasteStory of Thu and Ngoan: The Poetry of Rabbit MeatStory of Xu'n and Dai Love of the LandConclusion: Value, Entrepreneurship, and the Remaking of the CountrysideChapter 6. Money and Consumption: Gendered Desires, Class Matters Money, the Gods, and the Anxiety of Mobility"Civilized" Living and Vacant HousesConsuming the City and the Gender of DesireBecoming Urban? Class MattersConclusion: Fictional Expectations and the Remaking of Gendered DesiresChapter 7. An Exemplary Person, the Poor and the Limits of Remaking Socialization and the Ethic of StrivingVignette 1: The Queen of Waste and the Spirit of GivingVignette 2: In Support of the Poor HouseholdsTen Signatures and One Candidate for a Housing GrantWho Deserves to Be Poor?Conclusion: The Production of Success and Failure and the Limits of Remaking Conclusion: The Political Economy of Remaking The Waste Economy, Mobility and GlobalizationLabor, Gender, and ClassValue and MoralityThe Moral Personhood of Market SocialismNotesReferencesIndex
Synopsis
Waste and Wealth examines questions of value, labor, and morality underlining the translocal waste trading networks originating from a rural district in Vietnam. Considering waste as an economic category of global significance, this book shows migrant laborers' complex negotiations with political economic forces to remake their social and moral lives. It also illuminates how the waste traders seek to construct viable identities in the face of stigmatization, insecurity, and precarity. Waste and Wealth makes an important contribution to global studies of human economies and post-socialist transformations, demonstrating how the forces of globalization blend with local historical-cultural dynamics to shape the valuation of people and things.Waste and Wealth is a volume in the series ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION: CASE STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY, which examines the experiences of individual communities in our contemporary world. Each volume offers a brief and engaging exploration of a particular issue arising from globalization and its cultural, political, and economic effects on certain peoples or groups., Waste and Wealth examines questions of value, labor, and morality underlining the translocal waste trading networks originating from a rural district in Vietnam. Considering waste as an economic category of global significance, this book shows migrant laborers' complex negotiations with political economic forces to remake their social and moral lives. It also illuminates how the waste traders seek to construct viable identities in the face of stigmatization, insecurity, and precarity. Waste and Wealth makes an important contribution to global studies of human economies and post-socialist transformations, demonstrating how the forces of globalization blend with local historical-cultural dynamics to shape the valuation of people and things. Waste and Wealth is a volume in the series ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION: CASE STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY, which examines the experiences of individual communities in our contemporary world. Each volume offers a brief and engaging exploration of a particular issue arising from globalization and its cultural, political, and economic effects on certain peoples or groups., Waste and Wealth examines questions of value, labor, and morality underlining the translocal waste trading networks originating from a rural district in Vietnam. Considering waste as an economic category of global significance, this book shows migrant laborers' complex negotiations with political economic forces to remake their social and moral lives. It also illuminates how the waste traders seek to construct viable identities in the face of stigmatization, insecurity, and precarity. Waste and Wealth makes an important contribution to global studies of human economies and post-socialist transformations, demonstrating how the forces of globalization blend with local historical-cultural dynamics to shape the valuation of people and things.
LC Classification Number
HD9975.V53R43 2018
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