Vietnam's Socialist Servants - Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity (Hardcover)

Since the introduction of economic reforms in the mid-1980 which sought to create a socialist-oriented market economy in Vietnam, domestic service has become an established sector of the labour market, and domestic workers have become indispensable to urban life. This book analyzes the ways in which class identities are forged and contested through the practices and discourses of domestic service, which, is central to middle-class domesticity in Vietnam today. Drawing on a rich and diverse range of qualitative data, including ethnographies, interviews, and narratives, it shows that such practices and discourses are rooted in cultural notions of gender and rural-urban difference and enduring socialist structures of feeling, which in turn, clash more and more with the realities of growing differentiation. Domestic workers' experiences reveal negotiations with class boundaries actively set by the urban middle class, who seek distinction through emerging notions and practices of domesticity, and these boundaries are ridden with gender and class anxiety, partly because of the very struggles and contestations of the workers. More broadly, Minh T. N.Nguyen links the often invisible intimate dynamics of class formation in the domestic sphere with broader political economic processes in a post-socialist country embarking on marketization while retaining the political control of a party-state. As an ethnographic study of domestic service in Vietnam, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian culture & society, social anthropology, gender studies, human geography and development studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Asia's Transformations
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	2015
Authors:	Minh T. N. Nguyen
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	202
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-02341-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
LSN:	1-138-02341-8
Barcode:	9781138023413

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