The legacy and memory of wartime South Vietnam through the eyes of Vietnamese refugees
In 1975, South Vietnam fell to communism, marking a stunning conclusion to the Vietnam …

One of the main problems faced by teachers and students who have a scholarly interest in
Southeast Asia is the lack of general, user-friendly texts in the social sciences. The absence …

NIAS Press is the autonomous publishing arm of NIAS–Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, a
research institute located at the University of Copenhagen. NIAS is partially funded by the …

Research from around the world has suggested that married women's greatest risk for
contracting HIV is from having sexual intercourse with their husbands. On the basis of 6 …

New information and communication technologies continue to spread rapidly into the Asian
marketplace, which has led to new patterns of leisure consumption, one of the most popular …

This paper documents the closing down of street life at the Turtle Lake café district in Ho Chi
Minh City, Vietnam. Once a bustling area of outdoor activity where patrons would sit in …

Much interest has been devoted since the 1980s to the new urban, educated middle class in
Southeast Asia which has emerged primarily as a result of stateled modernization and …

In this article, I present a critical overview of current approaches to studying social
stratification and class in the post-reform Vietnamese context. I expound on the ideologically …

This article draws on Bourdieu's concept of habitus as a means to analyse social distinction
and change in terms of class and gender through the lens of food consumption. By focusing …

By zeroing in on the spatial tensions of the urban experience, this paper examines the
countryside's role as a set of everyday practices and imaginative discourses in the growth …