{"id":28413,"global_id":"www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en?id=28413","global_id_lineage":["www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en?id=28413"],"author":"7","status":"publish","date":"2016-11-18 15:25:21","date_utc":"2016-11-18 06:25:21","modified":"2016-11-18 15:27:00","modified_utc":"2016-11-18 06:27:00","url":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/en\/event\/20161124-en\/","rest_url":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/en\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/28413","title":"CSEAS Colloquium with Dr. Ken MacLean, November, 24, 2016","description":"

\"20160929_colloquium\"TThis is an announcement to invite you to the CSEAS Colloquium for November 2016.<\/p>\n

Date & Time:<\/strong> Thursday, November, 24, 2016, 16:00-17:30<\/p>\n

Place:<\/strong> Middle-sized Meeting Room (No. 332), 3rd Floor, Inamori
\nFoundation Building, Kyoto University<\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong> The Production of \u201cSuccess\u201d: Human (Anti-) Trafficking in the
\nSino-Vietnamese Borderlands<\/p>\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Dr. Ken MacLean
\nAssociate Professor of International Development and Social
\nChange, Clark University (USA)<\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong>
\nDavid Mosse, a scholar-practitioner of international development, argues
\nthat the people engaged policy analysis, regardless of whether they take
\nan instrumental view or employ critical theory, pose the wrong question
\nwhen assessing a project\u2019s efficacy. Mosse asserts that a more useful
\nquestion is \u201cnot whether a project succeeds, but how \u2018success\u2019 is
\nproduced.\u201d Close attention to the strategies and tactics used to
\ncontrol how events connected with a project are interpreted by others
\nthus provides the means to analyze this complicated and contested
\nprocess. With that in mind, the presentaton examines how national-level
\nVietnamese actors involved in anti-trafficking efforts define \u201csuccess.
\n\u201d I do so by studying through three different genres of trafficked
\nbodies: the frameworked body, the statistical body, and the media body.
\nChina continues to be the primary \u201cdestination\u201d country for Vietnamese
\nwomen and children trafficked abroad for the purposes of labor, sex,
\nforced marriage, which combines aspects of both, and illegal adoption.
\nThus the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands serve as the geographic context for
\nmy analysis. The main sections synthesize the official information
\ncurrently available on human trafficking and government responses to it.
\nThe purpose is to detail the degree to which these existing narratives
\nabout \u201csuccess\u201d succeed and on what terms. I highlight when and how
\nthese narratives converge and diverge with regard to the three bodies
\ndiscussed, including instances where they take ethnically different form
\n\u2014specifically, ethnic Viet (Kinh) and H\u2019mong.<\/p>\n

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