Affective Expertise: Gender, Class, and the Labor of Social Work in Ho Chi Minh City
Monday, Apr 2 2018,
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM,
CAPA Symposium
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Monday, Apr 2 2018 7:00 PM
Monday, Apr 2 2018 8:30 PM
America/New_York
Affective Expertise: Gender, Class, and the Labor of Social Work in Ho Chi Minh City
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Ann Marie Leshkowich is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Asian Studies at College of the Holy Cross.
CAPA Symposium
Bennington College
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Ann Marie Leshkowich is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Asian Studies at College of the Holy Cross. Her research focuses on gender, economic transformation, neoliberalism, middle classness, fashion, social work, and adoption in Vietnam. She is author of Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014), for which she was awarded the 2016 Harry J. Benda Prize, and coeditor of Traders in Motion: Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace (Cornell University Press, 2018) and Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress (Berg, 2003).