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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Barbora Nováková, Ph.D. (09.03.2023)
Lam Minh Chau, PhD. (Associate Professor and Chair of Social and Economic Anthropology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi) This course explores the experiences and diverse livelihood strategies of Asian communities who have negotiated one of the greatest social and economic transformations of the 20th century: the transition from socialist to marketised economic systems in Europe, Asia and Africa. The focus is on Asia, where the marketisation process has played out in ways that are both similar to and at the same time remarkably different from what has been observed in other settings of post-socialist change, notably in Eastern Europe. We examine what marketisation entails in China, Vietnam, India, Mongolia and beyond, its impact on the lives of Asian communities, and the diverse and creative livelihood strategies they have devised in response to this complex transformation. Students will have the opportunity to look at major aspects of livelihood change, notably in agriculture, land use, trade, and industrial wage employment. The course will also engage with major scholarly debates on marketisation, notably the role of the state, the moral economy-rational peasant question, forms of resistance, and whether marketisation should be perceived as a positive transformation or destructive change. In a nutshell, in each lecture/seminar, we will explore together three questions: - What happens/has changed under post-/late-socialism (particularly in terms of structural contexts, state policies, macro-economic processes). - The actual impact of the transformations on local lives and livelihood choices. - People’s responses and the livelihood strategies they have devised in negotiation of the transformations. For each of these questions, we will try to capture: - Variations across contexts (both structural changes and on-the-ground transformations and responses). - The factors that shape the impact and experiences of transformations: structure and agency, socialist legacies and post-socialist conditions, past and present, rational and moral I will use Vietnam as a focus of discussion, and to a lesser extent, China. Yet a variety of contexts will be included in the discussions for the purpose of comparison as we see fit: India, Mongolia, Eastern Europe, and beyond. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Barbora Nováková, Ph.D. (06.03.2023)
By the end of the course, students should acquire an overview of key concepts and debates on late-/post-socialist marketisation and the major aspects of livelihood change engendered by this complex transformation in contemporary Asia and beyond. Students should also develop the capacity to ‘think anthropologically’ when facing and trying to explain a problem/question related to late-/post-socialist transformation, particularly a sensitivity for the factors that have shaped this process in diverse and unexpected ways: local contexts, cultural differences, unique histories, and human agency. Students should also be able to make use of such knowledge in the construction of their own anthropological questions related to late-/post-socialist changes elsewhere. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Barbora Nováková, Ph.D. (09.03.2023)
The course will take place in the room CM207 on April 11th (9:10-12:25) and 13th (14:10-17:25). Students are required to attend all lectures and seminars, read the suggested literature before class (a minimum of two articles or book chapters per lecture/seminar), complete seminar assignments and submit the final essay on time. All students are expected to participate actively in seminar discussions (it is expected that everybody says something at a seminar). Note: Students should read a minimum of two books and five articles/book chapters The language of instruction will be English, and written work will be submitted in English and sent to my email address, lamminhchau86@gmail.com. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Barbora Nováková, Ph.D. (06.03.2023)
Background reading Note: Students should read a minimum of two books and five articles/book chapters Books Burawoy, M. & K. Verdery (ed.) 1999. Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World. New York: Rowman and Littlefield. Hann, C. (ed.) 2002. Postsocialism: Ideals, Ideologies, and Practices in Eurasia. London: Routledge. Mandel, R. & C. Humphrey (ed.) 2002. Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of Postsocialism. Oxford: Berg. West, H. & P. Raman (ed.) 2009. Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation. New York: Berghahn Books.
Articles and book chapters Luong, H.V. & J. Unger 1998. Wealth, Power, and Poverty in the Transition to Market Economies: The Process of Socio-Economic Differentiation in Rural China and Northern Vietnam. The China Journal 40, 61-93. Kerkvliet, B. & M. Selden 1998. Agrarian Transformation in China and Vietnam. Annual Review of Anthropology 30, 139-61. Beresford, M. 2008. “Doi Moi in Review: The Challenges of Building Market Socialism in Vietnam.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 38 (2): 221–243. Schwenkel, C. & A. Leshkowich 2012. Guest Editors' Introduction: How Is Neoliberalism Good to Think Vietnam? How Is Vietnam Good to Think Neoliberalism? Positions 20(2), 379-401. Kerkvliet, B. 2014. ‘Protests over Land in Vietnam: Rightful Resistance and More’, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 9(3), 19-54. Pieke, F. 1995. Bureaucracy, Friends, and Money: The Growth of Capital Socialism in China. Comparative Studies in Society and History 37(3), 494-518. Nonini, D. 2008. Is China Becoming Neoliberal. Critique of Anthropology 28(2), 145-76. Yep, R. 2012. “Containing Land Grabs: A Misguided Response to Rural Conflicts Over Land.” Journal of Contemporary China 80: 273–291. Sneath, D. 2002. Mongolia in the ‘Age of the Market: Pastoral Land-use and the Development Discourse. In Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of Postsocialism ed. C. Humphrey & R. Mandel. Oxford: Berg. Walker, K. 2009 Neoliberalism on the Ground in Rural India: Predatory Growth, Agrarian Crisis, Internal Colonization, and the Intensification of Class Struggle. Journal of Peasant Studies 35(4), 557-620. Levien, M. 2012. ‘The Land Question: Special Economic Zones and the Political Economy of Dispossession in India’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 39(3-4), 2012, 933-69. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Barbora Nováková, Ph.D. (06.03.2023)
Lecture 1. Marketisation in contemporary Asia: An overview. Seminar 1. Discussion: Marketisation and the state. Lecture 2. Agricultural transformations in the context of market transition. Seminar 2. Discussion: Marketisation and the moral economy/rational peasant debate. Lecture 3. Market, agrarian change, and land grabbing. Seminar 3. Discussion: Land grabbing and forms of resistance in today’s marketised Asia. Lecture 4. Trade, industrial wage employment, and beyond. Seminar 4. Discussion: Marketisation – for better or worse? |