Inimkond: Dr Catherine Earl - What's New about Vietnam's New Middle Classes?
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iCal calendarOur next Inimkond seminar will be held by Dr Catherine Earl from Federation Univ. Australia, and is titled What's New about Vietnam's New Middle Classes?
The seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 4th, from 6 to 8pm in room M-342 (Tallinn University Mare building). You are cordially invited to attend!
See also the Facebook event.
Abstract
A recognition of increasing social differentiation and the emergence of distinct social classes in post-authoritarian Southeast Asia has led social scientists to claim, on the one hand, that middle classes drive social and cultural change in the region (e.g. via new modes of consumption, or adoption of globalized environmental consciousness) but, on the other hand, that middle classes reproduce and transmit social and cultural conventions (e.g. in the form of promoting traditional festivals, or rejecting imported ideas and goods as polluting). Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Ho Chi Minh City, I draw on the views that Vietnamese middle classes hold about themselves as well as the views that others in Vietnam hold about them in order to investigate the ways in which middle classes in post-reform Vietnamese society may be instigators of change.
Bio
Dr Catherine Earl is a research fellow in the Federation Business School Gippsland Campus. As a social anthropologist, her research centres on social change, social welfare/work and social mobility in contemporary Vietnam as well as Australia. She has been a guest researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Dept of Sociology at the Vietnam National Univ. in Ho Chi Minh City. She has taught in the Dept. of Asian and International Studies at Victoria Univ. and the School of Applied Media and Social Sciences at Monash Univ. where she received the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Programs that Enhance Learning Special Commendation (2010) and the Gippsland Campus Individual & Team Teaching Award (2008). Catherine currently works on the Australian Research Council funded Retiring Women research project led by Professor Philip Taylor.
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This seminar series features speakers from anthropology and related fields, and fosters discussion of their research with a transdisciplinary audience. It aims to contribute to the culture of academic scholarship and debate at Tallinn University. Speakers include both local researchers and guests from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and with various takes on anthropological theory and methods. Presentations in the seminar series will be of interest to staff and students in anthropology, cultural theory, sociology, and history, among others.