Research

I am currently working in a collaborative ERC-funded project called “Yiwu: Trust, Global Traders and Commodities in a Chinese International City” (TRODITIES). The project involves a consortium of four universities namely Sussex, Cambridge, Copenhagen and Royal Holloway London. Research is concerned with transnational trading activities involving Chinese-made commodities, and how such activities facilitate flows of goods as well as ideas, knowledge and people. As part of this project I am looking into the entrepreneurial activities of overseas Vietnamese, especially in places like China and Eastern Europe, and asses the significance of such activities for the making of transnational marketplaces and the facilitation of transcultural flows.

For more see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/global/research/researchprojects/yiwu

Research interests: social study of markets and entrepreneurship; science entrepreneurship; kinship and sociality; religion and ritual; social transformation; past and present; ethnography of the state; Viet Nam; South East Asia; Vietnamese diasporas