Yên Mai

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Social Work; Faculty

E-mail:
yen.mai@uu.se
Visiting address:
Gamla torget
Gamla Torget 3
75120 UPPSALA
Postal address:
Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA

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Yên Mai holds a Ph.D. in sociology. Her research focuses on development initiatives and social movements led by civil society in the Global South.

Yên has published in Nordic Journal of Youth Research, Emotions and Society, Trans-regional and -nation studies of Southeast Asia. She also works as a translator, writer and journalist.

Keywords

  • gender and sexuality
  • intersectionality
  • social movement
  • youth research
  • sociology of emotion
  • civil society
  • lgbtqi
  • development studies
  • global south

Research

Mai, Y. (2024). Navigating Constraints: Activist Strategies in the Vietnamese LGBT+ Movement. TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 1-13.

Mai, Y. (2024). Vietnamese LGBTQ Youth’s Transition to Adulthood: Expressions of Agency. YOUNG, 32(1), 40-60.

Mai, Y. (2022). What happens on the backstage? Emotion work and LGBTQ activism in a collectivist culture. Emotions and Society, 4(2), 181-198.

Mai, Y. (2017). Constructing Queerness in Vietnam: Essentialism, Homonormativity, and Social Hierarchy. Sosiologia, 54(4), 393-409.

Mai, Y., & Laine, S. (2017). Blogging Activism of Young Educated and Global Women in Tunisia and Vietnam: a two-case study. Partecipazione e Conflitto, 9(3), 893-917.

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