Dear List,
I am happy to inform you of the publication of my monograph Waste and
Wealth: An Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese
Recycling Economy (Oxford University Press).
Here is the book's website:
https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/waste-and-wealth-9780190692605?cc=us&lang=en&
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Description
*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.
Reviews
"*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*
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