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Waste and Wealth: An Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy (Issues of Globalization:Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology)

Minh T.N. Nguyen

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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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Waste and Wealth: An Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy (Issues of Globalization:Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology). To get started finding Waste and Wealth: An Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy (Issues of Globalization:Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Waste and Wealth: An Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy (Issues of Globalization:Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology). To get started finding Waste and Wealth: An Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy (Issues of Globalization:Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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