{"product_id":"vietnamese-objects-the-material-culture-of-resilience-in-the-face-of-decolonization","title":"Vietnamese Objects: The Material Culture of Resilience in the Face of (de)colonization","description":"\u003cp\u003eVietnamese Objects traces how French colonial goods, foods and materials were absorbed into Vietnamese life so completely that they now read as authentically Vietnamese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCà phê, cà phê phin, atisô, xi nê ma, căng tin, xi-măng, ghế tô nê—in the Vietnamese language, a great many everyday words carry their French origins on the surface. The research project Objets Vietnamiens takes that linguistic residue as its starting point and works outward, analysing the production of objects in Vietnam through cultural anthropology, the epistemology of Vietnamese design and the sociology of objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on reportage, interviews and research across several archival collections, Quang Vinh Nguyen and Émilie Laystary trace the mechanisms by which objects, foods, materials and expertise were absorbed into Vietnamese life. Their reading is decolonial and critical, and its argument is a generous one: that appropriating the techniques of a dominant power is itself an act of creativity and adaptation. The resulting work doubles as an archive of the present, opening onto everyday life in Vietnam then and now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eKey features\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSixth title in the Visual Archives series, produced in cooperation with ECAL\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApproximately 250 images documenting objects, materials and everyday settings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBilingual throughout, in French and English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook design by Chi-Long Trieu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoftcover with flaps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow French colonisation left its trace not only in Vietnamese language and food but across a whole material culture of objects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy appropriation—rather than resistance or rejection—became the mechanism through which these goods were made Vietnamese\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe methods a design-led research project brings to material culture: reportage, interview and archival work in combination\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat the sociology of objects reveals about the relationship between colonisation, decolonisation and design\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the editors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuang Vinh Nguyen is a product designer from Lausanne. After graduating from ECAL he taught in Hong Kong while pursuing personal projects, and in 2019 worked with the eastern Swiss textile industry as part of a Textile and Design Alliance residency. He is now a design researcher at ECAL and is closely connected to the design scene in Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eÉmilie Laystary is a social journalist. She writes for \u003cem\u003eLibération\u003c\/em\u003e and hosts the \u003cem\u003eBouffons\u003c\/em\u003e podcast, which examines contemporary life through the lens of food. Her first book, \u003cem\u003ePetit Traité de la bouffe\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2022. She teaches writing at the University Paris Nanterre and a seminar on social questions at Sciences Po Lille.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 160 x 240 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 248\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: French and English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9783038630906\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Triest Verlag\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublication date: not stated by the publisher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePerfect for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigners and design historians working on material culture and postcolonial questions, researchers in Southeast Asian studies, and readers drawn to the ways ordinary objects carry political histories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Triest Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48954410828001,"sku":"9783038630906","price":73.15,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/9783038630906.png?v=1787207061","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/vietnamese-objects-the-material-culture-of-resilience-in-the-face-of-decolonization","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}