Yên Mai
PhD student at Sociologiska institutionen; Doktorander
- E-mail:
- yen.mai@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Yên Mai defended her PhD in December 2023. Her research focuses on youth participation in development programs run by civil society organizations in a global south context.
Yên's master's thesis, the winner of Youth Research Thesis Competition 2016, investigates how LGBTQ people construct their identities and relationships through heteronormativity.
Yên also works as a writer, translator, and journalist. Her 2018 fiction The Stranger won the highest prize in a Vietnamese literature competition.
Keywords
- gender and sexuality
- intersectionality
- participation in development
- qualitative methods
- social movement
- sociology of emotion
- youth research
Research
Mai, Y. (2023). Vietnamese LGBTQ Youth’s Transition to Adulthood: Expressions of Agency. YOUNG, open access: https://doi.org/10.1177/11033088231205155
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, 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.
Publications
Recent publications
- Narratives of Change (2023)
- What happens on the backstage? (2022)
- “When The Hype Is Over”: (2019)
- Young Activists in Vietnamese NGOs: (2018)
- Constructing Queerness in Vietnam (2017)
All publications
Articles
- What happens on the backstage? (2022)
- Constructing Queerness in Vietnam (2017)
- Blogging Activism of Young Educated and Global Women in Tunisia and Vietnam (2016)