Mythbusting Vietnam: Facts, Fictions, Fantasies Thai Study Southeast Asia | precarity |

Southeast Asia | precarity | migration | informal work | neoliberalism | unskilled labor | gendered labor

And they show the ways in which those who remain behind in the village are transformed

Elizabeth Guthrie received her Ph

and ethnicity in transnational contexts

has long worked on the religious situation in India

Mythbusting Vietnam: Facts, Fictions, Fantasies Thai Study Southeast Asia | precarity |Edited by Catherine Earl Vietnam is studied and understood in myriad ways. Even so, much of this knowledge is framed by a limited number of dominant paradigms. The concern of this volume which applies a postmodern approach to knowledge production in area studies is to highlight the value of knowledge diversity by challenging some of these paradigms and the myths that are shaped within them. It recognizes that myths are not simply mistakes and thus it