{"title":"‘Your Vagina is a Rice Paddy’","authors":"Cassie DeFillipo","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvscxstd.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvscxstd.9","url":null,"abstract":"In Thailand, there is an adage that a woman’s vagina is her rice paddy wherein it is considered a natural resource she can harvest when necessary or desired. In a culture where sexual relationships are defined by norms of masculinity and femininity, women’s sexual decisions are often aimed at using this natural resource to perform femininity in culturally idealized ways. Through ethnographic work in commercial sex establishments, this chapter argues that heterosexual sex practices help women express and enact hegemonic femininities in Northern Thailand. In contributing to the literature on hegemonic and multiple femininities, the chapter contends that gender is relational and that analyses of men’s performances of masculinities are insufficient if reviewed separately from women’s performances of femininities.","PeriodicalId":410381,"journal":{"name":"Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131678717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Money, Maturity, and Migrant Aspirations","authors":"Cheryll Alipio","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvscxstd.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvscxstd.11","url":null,"abstract":"Since the state institutionalization of migrant labour began in the Philippines, countless children have been ‘left behind’ bereft of one, or even both, parents. Consequently, the moral evaluation of familial and financial responsibility has intensified. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in the various institutions involved in the quotidian lives of young people, this chapter uses Cheryl Mattingly’s (2013) notion of the ‘moral laboratory’ at home and in school to explore lived engagements with money, morality, and mobility. In the reimagining and pursuit of future possibilities beyond a life of poverty and unemployment, this chapter contends that young people’s experimentation with money as a form of mobile or migrant aspiration reflects their strategic moral values and maturation.","PeriodicalId":410381,"journal":{"name":"Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia","volume":"471 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133014309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christianity as the Sixth Aspirational ‘C’: Megachurches and the Changing Landscape of Religion, Prosperity, and Wealth in Singapore","authors":"C. Gomes, Jonathan Tan","doi":"10.1017/9789048543151.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048543151.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":410381,"journal":{"name":"Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia","volume":"242 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133031763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Billions and the Retrogression of Knowledge’?","authors":"Esther Horat","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvscxstd.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvscxstd.7","url":null,"abstract":"While Vietnam’s Đổi mới policy, officially introduced three decades ago, had the clear-cut aim of restructuring the economic sector, its impact on morality was not as readily palpable. The standing of merchants in Vietnam has been, and continues to be, particularly ambiguous, as they were able to quickly seize the benefits of Đổi mới, albeit without embodying the state’s ideas of modernity. Using Sheri Lynn Gibbings (2016) framework of ‘citizenship as ethic’, the chapter takes a close look at the traders’ performance of moral identities as a way of dealing with the paradoxical economic and political situation they find themselves in.","PeriodicalId":410381,"journal":{"name":"Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115378069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility and Flexible Moralities: Insights from the Case Study of Vietnamese Market Traders in Moscow","authors":"L. Hoang","doi":"10.1017/9789048543151.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048543151.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":410381,"journal":{"name":"Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia","volume":"20 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113970569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engendering Money and Morality in Asia","authors":"Cheryll Alipio, L. Hoang","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvscxstd.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvscxstd.14","url":null,"abstract":"The epilogue provides a summary of the overarching theme of the volume – money and morality – and its connections to neoliberal globalization and localization in contemporary Asia. The main findings from the chapters are summarized and discussed with respect to the emergence of a new moral regime of economy, work, and labour. Through this regime, three key contributions of the volume are highlighted in relationship to market economies and self-governance, money as ‘social currencies’, and the encroachment of money and morality on intimate relations.","PeriodicalId":410381,"journal":{"name":"Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia","volume":"168 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124695456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Money, Maturity, and Migrant Aspirations: ‘Morality-in-Motion’ among Young People in the Philippines","authors":"Cheryll Alipio","doi":"10.1017/9789048543151.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048543151.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":410381,"journal":{"name":"Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117266385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9789048543151.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048543151.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":410381,"journal":{"name":"Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122765225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvscxstd.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvscxstd.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":410381,"journal":{"name":"Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127599155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"House, Car, or Permanent Residency?","authors":"Sylvia Ang","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvscxstd.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvscxstd.8","url":null,"abstract":"While male migrants are an understudied group, even less attention has been paid to their heterosexual practices. This chapter locates such practices by examining online personal ads posted by higher-wage mainland Chinese migrant men in Singapore. This chapter empirically contributes to migration and masculinity studies by examining the understudied site of online personal ads. Theoretically, this chapter aims to contribute by firstly, extending Aihwa Ong’s (1999) theory of neoliberal flexibility to an analysis of Chinese masculinity. Secondly, even as Chinese migrant men exemplify neoliberal flexibility, the chapter argues that neoliberalism is not the only condition producing flexible masculinity. Rather, Chinese migrant men’s flexible subject-making can be analyzed as ‘variegated’ and simultaneously situated in cultural and social imaginaries.","PeriodicalId":410381,"journal":{"name":"Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133283076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}