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SUMMARY:Producing the Global Margin in Vietnam: Work and Life Reconfigured
LOCATION:Sala de Comisiones
DESCRIPTION:This panel contributes to debates on the moral economies of glo
 bal labour by foregrounding the productive role of margins in sustaining ca
 pitalist accumulation. The rise of Southeast Asia as a global factory has r
 econfigured work and life across the region. This reconfiguration is charac
 terised by the casualisation of labour, the intensification of work, and th
 e precaritisation of life. In this dynamic, the seamless functioning of glo
 bal capital relies on and actively produces new social and economic margins
  by systematically creating conditions for social and temporal alienation a
 nd fragmentation that sustain inequalities, exploitation, and displacement.
  Thus, the production of the “margins” is a strategic achievement of global
  capital.\nVietnam, where the logic of global capitalism is mediated throug
 h the reworking of state ideologies and socialist ethics, offers a critical
  lens on this production. The country’s rapid integration into the global s
 upply chain has made it a site where new moral hierarchies of labour are fo
 rged. Emerging from the capitalist strategies of “flexible accumulation” an
 d state-led drives for modernisation, these hierarchies actively valorise c
 ertain forms of work while devaluing and invisibilising others. In these sp
 aces, displays of development obscure inequality and normalise precarity.\n
 Drawing from ethnographic research across factory floors, maritime supply c
 hains, and rural villages in Vietnam, the papers in this panel trace how th
 is margin is produced. Together, they show how the demand for flexible and 
 mobile labour creates a permanent fracture between the relentless rhythms o
 f global capitalism and the intimate rhythms of social reproduction in work
 ers’ lives. This fracture is exemplified by the glorification of the “globa
 l worker,” which strategically absolves the state from its responsibilities
  of care. Focusing on the actively produced “margins”, this panel reveals t
 he contested reordering of work and life under global capitalism and the ne
 cessity of recentring the relational margins within its uneven geography an
 d entanglement with local politics and social transformations.
URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/title-producing-the-global-margin-in-vietnam-work-and-life-reconfigured
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