Prof. Dr. Minh Nguyen
I am a social anthropologist with interdisciplinary orientation. My PhD, acquired in an interdisciplinary PhD program at the University of East Anglia, was oriented towards anthropological theories and methods. This anthropological expertise was further developed during my time at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale) before I joined Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Sociology. My current research focuses on labour, mobility and migration, care and welfare China, Vietnam, Southeast Asia and more generally. My publications analyze the social transformations generated by the mobility of labour and changing care and welfare regimes, as well as the implications of global processes on people’s daily economic practices and local systems of meanings. The questions of how the movement of people intersects with the commodification of labour, how the labour force is cared for, and what notions of the good life motivate people in global societies have been central to this work. Increasingly I am also interested in the ramifications of financialization for labour and the lives of ordinary people.
2018- |
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2016-2017 |
Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology; External Lecturer, |
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2011-2016 |
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
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2007-2011 |
Post-graduate Researcher, School of International Development |
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2006-2007 | Maternity leave | |
1999-2006 |
Freelance consultant and researcher (on rural development, social development, gender) |
2007-2011 | PhD Degree, University of East Anglia, UK |
2002-2003 | MA Degree, University of Queensland, Australia |
1999-2001 |
Matriculation in Sociology as second BA, Vietnam National University, Hanoi |
1994-1998 | BA Degree, Vietnam National University, Hanoi |
Ongoing |
Editorial Board member, Journal of Vietnamese Studies (UC Berkeley Press) |
Ongoing | Co-editor, Working Paper Series: Bielefeld Anthropological Papers on Issues of the Global World (BAPGW), Bielefeld University |
Ongoing | Co-convenor, lecture series "Understanding Asia" at Bielefeld University |
2020-22 | Member, Bielefeld University’s Commission for Research and Promotion of Early Career Scientists |
2021- | Board member, Centre for German and European Studies (CGES/ZDES): St. Petersburg/Bielefeld (the centre is currently suspended until further notice) |
2021 | Member, Academy of Finland Social Sciences 3 Review Panel |
2020 | Member, AcademiaNet: Swiss National Science Foundation, Profiles of Leading Female Scientists |
2020- | Member, Faculty Council and Habilitation Committee, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University |
2018- | Member of the Institute of World Society, Bielefeld University |
2019- | Member of the Shaping Asia initiative and network, Bielefeld-Heidelberg |
Anthropological Theory, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Men and Masculinities, Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Third World Quarterly, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Population Studies, Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Canadian Journal of Anthropology, Development and Change; Journal of Vietnamese Studies; Pacific Affairs; Journal of Economic Anthropology, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; China Information, China Review, World Development Perspective, and others.
University of Vienna, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Irish Research Council, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Central European University, Berghahn Books, European Research Council, Cornell University Press, University of Amsterdam, German Research Foundation (DFG), Swedish International Foundation for Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Free University of Berlin, University of California at Riverside, and others.
March 2024 | International Conference The Politics of Care under Market Socialism: Labor, Welfare and Global Capital in China and Vietnam, Bielefeld’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies |
June 2023 |
Panel The Politics of Aspirations and Transnational Migration in Post-reform Vietnam, Association of Asian Studies Conference, Daegu, South Korea |
April 2023 | Panel Financializing Social Protection in the Global South, Association of Social Anthropologist 2023 Conference, London, UK |
Sept. 2022 |
Panel Rural Futures in Late Socialist Asia: The Countryside in a Globalising World, German Sociological Association’s biannual conference, Bielefeld, Germany. |
July 2022 | Co-organiser, symposium Knowledge, Mobility, Belonging, Bielefeld’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies |
Jun. 2022 | Co-organiser, panel The Financialization of Everyday Life in Vietnam, European Association of Southeast Asian Studies biannual conference |
April 2022 |
Co-organiser, international workshop Reconfiguring Vietnam: Global Encounters, Translocal Lifeworlds, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle |
Dec. 2021 | Co-organiser, international conference Reconfiguring Labour and Welfare in Emerging Eonomies of the Global South, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University |
Jan. 2021 | Co-organiser, Global Encounter: An exchange forum between the sociology faculties of Bielefeld University, Nanjing University and Vietnam National University |
Oct 2020 | Co-convener, German Anthropological Association’s Autumn School for PhD students in anthropology, “Fieldwork Meets Crisis” |
Aug. 2020 | Co-organiser, online workshop Ethnographic Fieldwork in East Asia in the Times of Covid-19, with Aike Peter Rots from University of Oslo |
Dec. 2019 | Organiser, panel Care and Privatization in Marketing Socialist Asia, American Anthropological Association Meeting 2019, Vancouver |
Sept. 2019 | Co-organiser, international conference The Good Life in Late Socialist Asia: Aspirations, Politics, and Possibilities. Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University |
Sept. 2019 |
Co-organiser and discussant, panel The Gender of Labour in Privatising Vietnam. EuroSEAS Conference 2019, Humboldt University, Berlin |
Aug. 2017 | Co-organiser and discussant, panel Beyond the State? The Everyday Politics of Development in Southeast Asia. EuroSEAS Conference 2017, Oxford University, England |
Mar. 2017 | Organiser, panel Mobility and Everyday Moralities in Contemporary Vietnam. American Asian Studies Conference 2017, Toronto, Canada. |
Dec. 2015 |
Discussant, international workshop Southeast Asian Intersections: Labour Migration, Translocality, and Regional Dynamic. Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne, Germany. |
Nov. 2015 |
Co-organiser, panel ‘Gender and Economic Activities in Marketized Socialist China and Vietnam’, American Anthropological Association Conference 2015, Denver, USA. |
Aug. 2015 |
Co-organiser, panel ‘How is Migrant Labour Changing Rural Southeast Asia? Translocality, Hybridity, and Emerging Categories’. Euroseas Conference. University of Vienna, Austria. |
Jul. 2014 |
Co-organiser, international conference Beyond the Global Care Chain: Boundaries, Institutions, and Ethics of Care. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany. |
Jul. 2013 | Co-organiser, panel ‘Migration and the Vietnamese Family: Shifting Structures, Relations and Identities’. Euroseas Conference. Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. |
Vietnam Update Conference at Australian National University; Institute of Anthropology, Vietnam Academy of Social Science; Institute of Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences; School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK; Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany; Institute of Cultural Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Science; Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transitional Economies, Germany; Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne, Germany; Institute for Studies of Society, Economics and Environment, Vietnam; Bielefeld Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Germany; Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden; Department of Sociology, University of Nanjing, China; Elite Graduate Program "Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK; Duisburg University, Germany; Edinburgh University, UK; Issues of Globalization Roundtable, AAA Meeting in Vancouver, Canada; STAR 1 Training Program for PhD students of all universities in Scotland (keynote); European Institute of China Studies, France; Vietnam Research Snapshots online lecture series; Department of East Asian Studies at the University Paris Cité, France.