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"Vu tells the story of Vietnamese farmers who have survived a 30-year war of independence and unification, its damaging legacies in their living environment, and the unfamiliar pressure of the market economy. Vietnamese famers are neither simply obedient beneficiaries of policy decisions made by higher authorities, nor convention-ridden cyphers. Rather, they are sophisticated decision-makers capable of navigating the changes threatening to disrupt their lives over multiple generations. Vu's research pays particular attention to those farmers whose families have suffered from direct and indirect exposure to the toxic herbicides popularly known as Agent Orange. She demonstrates that their priority has tended to be the protection of their existing assets, rather than pursuing the promise of new riches, and that this tendency has helped them maintain stability in a turbulent economic environment. A fascinating study for scholars of Vietnamese anthropology and society, that will also be of interest to sociologists and economists with a broader interest in the impact of economic change on rural lifestyles"--

Rural development --- Vietnam --- Rural conditions.

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Critical discourse analysis --- Kritische discoursanalyse --- Social aspects. --- Kritische discoursanalyse. --- Critical discourse analysis -- Social aspects. --- Critical discourse analysis. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Social aspects --- CDA (Critical discourse analysis) --- Discourse analysis

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Juvenile parole --- Intensive probation --- Juvenile delinquents --- Community-based corrections --- Rehabilitation

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Midlife is more than a period but a process of reevaluating social identities, social relationships, and reconstructing self. In between the time of decline and growth, middle-aged women were reported to turn hardships into empowerment, to reevaluate their social identities and relationship. In Vietnam, the research field about middle-aged women seems mostly untouched, despite multiple previous studies about Vietnamese women and their changing dynamic agency due to social and political forces were remarkable. Especially in the realm of kinship studies, Vietnamese women have successfully portrayed themselves with the agency to maneuver around and negotiate social expectations. In order to obtain a better understanding of this negotiating process of Vietnamese women in their midlife – which was by the time remained a significant research gap, this study is conducted using ethnographic methodologies, with multiple field-sites are involved. Within these fields, findings are obtained via participant-observations and in depth-interviews, suggests that during midlife, participants proactively have their previous life-stages under retrospect, their future’s responsibilities envisioned, in order to harness the offerings of the present time and empower each other. By facing their past and enacting decisive changes, Vietnamese middle-aged women, on one hand, are not only negotiating the socially-constructed notions of motherhood, womanhood, or division of labor. But on the other hand, they are also challenging the dichotomy of such notions, such as public versus private, kinship versus relatedness, self vs others, posing question back to the researcher: is there really a need to divide these notions into two sides of the boundaries? as the boundaries could initially exist not in participant’s minds but only in researcher’s. Keywords: Midlife, Vietnamese middle-aged women, kinship, relatedness, negotiating boundaries, lifecoure theory, self-remaking, time, ethnographic research, aging