2015
DOI: 10.1111/aman.12291
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Rich Sentiments and the Cultural Politics of Emotion in Postreform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Abstract: Linking socioeconomic and personal transformations, recent scholarship on neoliberalism in East and Southeast Asia has examined the role of various emotional experiences in reconfiguring selfhood toward values of personal responsibility and self‐care. However, studies rarely focus on how such experiences come to be understood as specifically emotional themselves. In this article, I examine the growing use of emotion (cảm xúc) as a conceptual category to define the self and everyday life in a psychologistic idi… Show more

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“…Tình cảm refers to sentiments, affects, or emotions that people understand as not only arising “naturally” between kin and others but also as driving and motivating material relations of support between them . It is rooted in a local model of the self as interdependent rather than independent of others, and it encompasses other forms of love, care, and concern (Gammeltoft ; Leshkowich ; Rydstrom ; Shohet ; Tran ). My interlocutors describe tình cảm as a felt ethical imperative that spontaneously arises within their heart/guts ( lòng ) and that spurs them to display their care for social intimates through material and affective support.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Tình cảm refers to sentiments, affects, or emotions that people understand as not only arising “naturally” between kin and others but also as driving and motivating material relations of support between them . It is rooted in a local model of the self as interdependent rather than independent of others, and it encompasses other forms of love, care, and concern (Gammeltoft ; Leshkowich ; Rydstrom ; Shohet ; Tran ). My interlocutors describe tình cảm as a felt ethical imperative that spontaneously arises within their heart/guts ( lòng ) and that spurs them to display their care for social intimates through material and affective support.…”
Section: ***mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, the increased self‐sufficiency and individualism associated with east and southeast Asian neoliberalism results from engaging multiple forms of selfhood as individuals use neoliberal, socialist, and Confucian ideals simultaneously to define themselves (Ong and Zhang ; Yan ). Although rich expressions of specific types of feelings have long informed everyday discourse (Jamieson ), the conceptual category of emotion ( cảm xúc ) has only more recently become understood as the resource par excellence for understanding the self (Tran ).…”
Section: Age Of Anxiety?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, although patients’ models of neurasthenia are influenced by Vietnamese medical beliefs, this dichotomy is not applicable here since both GAD and neurasthenia have biomedical origins. Rather, the primary difference between how patients’ symptoms are understood lies not just in the pathologization of worry but also in its psychologization, which Yang (:294) defines as “managing socioeconomic issues in psychological terms.” Increasingly popular among Ho Chi Minh City's middle and upper classes, Cartesian models of selfhood posit an individual's private thoughts and feelings as the locus of personal identity (Tran ). Moreover, that the only three patients (one woman and two men) in the study who endorsed their official diagnoses of MDD or GAD are in their 20s reflects generational changes in ways of defining the self.…”
Section: Psychologizing Worry: Generalized Anxiety Disordermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These arguments inform debates on political subjectivity, self‐making, and medical and psychological practice in contexts of neoliberal development and modernization (Chua ; Edmonds ; Han ; Matza ; Nguyen ; Tran ). Viewed through the lens of Foucauldian governmentality, therapeutic and technoscientific practices and ideologies act as disciplinary tools by defining how modern citizens should know and act on themselves (Lakoff ).…”
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confidence: 94%