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Sensibilities, Imaginaries, and Networks: Performing Diasporic Vietnamese Identities.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sensibilities, Imaginaries, and Networks: Performing Diasporic Vietnamese Identities./
Author:	Nguyen, Jason R.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	524 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-04A.
Subject:	Ethnic studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28769262
ISBN:	9798460455799

Sensibilities, Imaginaries, and Networks: Performing Diasporic Vietnamese Identities.
Nguyen, Jason R.

Sensibilities, Imaginaries, and Networks: Performing Diasporic Vietnamese Identities. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 524 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation is an ethnographic examination of the social meanings and practices associated with diasporic Vietnamese people, especially those in North America. It demonstrates how people perform Vietnamese identities in dynamic, context-specific ways to achieve intended social aims. These aims include: understanding themselves and their histories; building communities and networks; selectively activating their networks to accomplish collective projects; and obscuring or highlighting particular affiliations.The study's observations are based on three groups engaged in seemingly separate projects of diasporic Vietnamese identity: (1) the popular music industry that developed after the end of the Vietnam War, and its audiences; (2) contemporary college and university-based Vietnamese student associations (VSAs); and (3) homeland-centric political organizations. By tracing the cultural practices, narratives, projects, and networks of people involved in each of these cohorts, especially individuals who move between them, I conclude that people perform different Vietnamese identities for different audiences and in different social spaces and I propose novel methods for observing how such performances are made and interpreted.Thus, this project not only builds on knowledge about these groups, but also draws inspiration from them to develop theoretical tools for understanding their identities. First, the idea of "imaginaries" is applied to the diasporic pop industry's ability to reflect and shape aspirations for community-building. Second, "network performativity" emphasizes the importance of group belonging, aiding analysis of VSA activities that may not appear obviously "Vietnamese." Third, "technologies of association" provides a model for analyzing the strategy of group affiliation, as when activists obscure that identity to present themselves as business leaders or human rights advocates. Finally, the notion of "sensibilities," or different ways of relating to the world, helps describe the patterns embedded in different groups' ideas about Vietnamese identity without attaching rigid labels like first- and second-generation to them.

ISBN: 9798460455799Subjects--Topical Terms:

1556779
Ethnic studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Diaspora

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