Category: Nguyen Kieu An

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Academic Papers Nguyen Kieu An Politics

Women’s Substantive Representation in Turkey: Socio-cultural and Political Constraints on Collaborative Efforts for Women’s Empowerment

Photo by Faruk Melik ÇEVİK on Unsplash
Photo by Faruk Melik ÇEVİK on Unsplash

Turkish politics has been long characterized by centralized government, deep-rooted patriarchal norms, and Islamist-secularist divisions. Despite Islamic women striving for their rights with increasing presence of women in parliament, the question remained unanswered of whether their (in)effective advocacy for women’s empowerment is fostering or impeding the collaboration among Turkish women representatives.

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Academic Papers Nguyen Kieu An sociology War

Narratives of a South Vietnamese Father and a Laotian Mother: On Memories of War and Transnational Perspectives of Life 

South Vietnamese refugees in boats approach a U.S. war ship to seek refuge from the invading force from the North April 1975 in the South China Sea near Saigon. (Photo by Dirck Halstead/Getty Images)

Vietnam war has been one of the most destructive wars in history. Yet, “so much is told about Vietnam, and so little is understood” amid a “skipping over” of the Vietnam War through an organized and strategic forgetting of a war that “went wrong”  by America’s self-appointed role as liberators.