The edited volume Reconfiguring Vietnam: Global Encounters, Translocal Lifeworlds (editors: Minh T. N. Nguyen and Kirsten Endres) has just been officially launched by the Yale Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series.
A new special issue titled "Rural Futures in Late Socialist Asia" has been recently published by the Journal of Political Sociology (JPS). Edited by Jingyu Mao, Minh T.N. Nguyen and Phill Wilcox, the issue discusses how globalisation, increasing urbanisation, and state policies shape rural lives across China, Vietnam and Laos, and how rural people imagine their futures amid the risks and uncertainties generated at the juncture between political, economic, and ecological forces.
African Studies Quarterly just published a book review by Phill Wilcox, titled "David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman. 2023. China’s Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press".
Elgar has published the "Handbook on Migration and Development: A Counter-hegemonic Perspective", which is edited by Raúl Delgado Wise, Branka Likic-Brboric, Ronaldo Munck, and Carl-Ulrik Schierup. It features several contributions by members of the Faculty of Sociology.
A new special issue titled "Welfare in Crisis: Labor and Social Protection in the Global South" has been published in the Journal of Labor and Society (Brill). Edited by Jake Lin, Dennis Arnold, and Minh T.N. Nguyen, the issue includes contributions from Rebecca Prentice, Mahmudul H. Sumon, André Thiemann, Angie Ngọc Trần, Rano Turaeva, and Chioma Joyce Onukogu.