Life Courses in Vietnam: Exploring gendered Aspects of Careers

Ongoing

Numerous studies focus on the effects of economic reforms on the livelihoods of Vietnamese people. This study aims to add another perspective to this topic, namely that of women’s changing occupational life courses. People’s occupational life courses are constructed of several stages following upon each other during the time of a life span. These elements might be defined differently but they always include an element of transition between them. The processes of transition between different life stages of women are at the centre of this research project: How are women in Vietnam making decisions about new stages in their careers? Who influences these decisions and in which directions? How are these decisions reproducing social practices? How has decision making changed during the past years of economic transformation?

Perceptions of Change in Vietnam. Human Environmental Values in a Peri-urban Area of Southeast Vietnam

(PhD-Research, Completed)

Since the early 1990s, Vietnam is experiencing rapid economic growth, initiated by the đổi mới reforms. While these policies improved living standards for many people in Vietnam, the economic growth also intensified threats to the natural environment through rising pollution. At the same time, Vietnam faces the adverse effects of phenomena like global climate change.

Against this background, this research project looks at the cognitive aspects of human-nature relations in Vietnam: What is nature? What kind of changes do people notice in their local natural environment? How do they explain these changes? And where do they see their own responsibilities in this context? Based on fieldwork in a peri-urban hamlet in the Southeast of Vietnam, this qualitative study paints a diverse picture of the perceptions of the local natural environment.

Monographs

Fuhrmann, Eva (2017): Perceptions of Change in Vietnam. Human Environmental Values in a Peri-urban Area of Southeast Vietnam. Berlin: Regiospectra.

Articles

Fuhrmann, Eva / Kerstin Schiele (2017): Combining Research Practices: Can Foreign Researchers Create a Synthesis of Scientific Systems? In: Asien 145, 5–23.

Fuhrmann, Eva (2013): Van Nguyen-Marshall, Lisa B. Welch Drummond, Danièle Bélanger (Hgg.): The Reinvention of Distinction. Modernity and the Middle Class in Vietnam. In: Asien (129), 161–163.

Fuhrmann, Eva (2012): Zwischen Land und Stadt. Wandel ländlicher Arbeitswelten in Vietnam. In: Südostasien 2012(3), 12–13.

Fuhrmann, Eva / Katja Sobbe (2012): Strategien für globalen Arbeitnehmerschutz. Ein Interview mit Ingeborg Wick. In: Südostasien 2012(3).

Presentations

"Women’s Careers in Vietnam as Belonging to Communities of Practice", Presentation at the EuroSEAS Conference 2019, Berlin, 10.-13.9.2019.

"Female Life Courses, Choice and Work in Vietnam", Presentation at the 11th Engaging with Vietnam Conference, Leiden, 15.-16.7.2019.

„Immobile Mobility? Occupational Choices in Vietnam”, Presentation at the 11th Annual International Asian Dynamics Initiative Conference, University of Copenhagen, 17.-19.6.2019.

„Research on Social Practice and Research as Social Practice”, Presentation at Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Ho Chi Minh City, 24.11.2018.

„Perzeption von urbanen und ländlichen Räumen in Vietnam“, Presentation at the 23. Tagung des Arbeitskreises Südostasien der DGfG, Köln, 2.-3.7.2016.

„Notions of Urban, Rural and Nature in Peri-urban Vietnam“, Presentation at the 8th Annual International Asian Dynamics Initiative Conference, University of Copenhagen, 20.-22.6.2016.

„Transformation und Perzeption von Natur im peri-urbanen Vietnam“, Presentation at Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde e.V. (DGV), Philipps-Universität Marburg, 30.9. bis 3.10.2015.

„Umwelt und Handeln in Vietnam“, Presentation at Trier-Bonn Southeast Asia Research Exchange, Universität Trier, 6.6.2013.

Summerterm 2020

Urbanisierung in Südostasien
Seminar, B.A. Ethnologie, Donnerstag 14-15:30 Uhr, Raum S 57, Philosophikum

Vietnam, Kambodscha und Laos im 20. Jahrhundert: Geschichte und Gedächtnis
Seminar, B.A. Südasien- und Südostasien-Studien & B.A. Ethnologie, Mittwoch 10-11:30 Uhr, Raum S 57, Philosophikum

Winterterm 2019/2020

Einführung in die ethnologische Genderforschung
Seminar, B.A. Ethnologie, Mittwoch 16-17:30 Uhr, Raum S 23, Seminargebäude

Ecology and Religion in South-Asia and Southeast-Asia
Seminar, B.A. Südasien- und Südostasien-Studien, Dienstag 13:30-15 Uhr, Seminarraum, EG, Liliencronstr. 6