Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Research Associate
- Name:
- Dr Marina Marouda
- Email address:
- mm122@soas.ac.uk
- Address:
- SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
Biography
Marina Marouda obtained a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh. Her ESRC-funded doctoral research was concerned with Buddhist-influenced ideas and practices relating to death and the dead as enacted in contemporary Huế, the capital of imperial and colonial Việt Nam. Her RAI/Sutasoma-Award thesis looks at the historically shifting entanglements of the living and the dead and traces the significance of these entanglements for understanding social and political life in contemporary Việt Nam, charting the significance of the dead in the affective lives of ordinary peoples in their capacities as kin and citizens.
Her subsequent research explores issues relating to death, life and wellbeing in relation to innovative biomedical technologies. She undertook ERC-funded research on stem cell practices in Việt Nam, focusing in particular on experiments conducted in laboratories and hospitals with the aim to develop biomedical commodities and markets.
Most recently, she turned her attention to diasporic Vietnamese settled in Eastern Europe, looking at how these diasporas contribute to assembling global commodity networks and markets. Working as part of an ERC-funded team study, she conducted research in Warsaw and Odessa with Vietnamese commodity traders and small-scale financiers, looking not only at Vietnamese migratory paths and diasporic connections, but also into the integral role such traders play in facilitating the flow of Chinese-made commodities into national, regional and EU markets.
She has previously held postdoctoral fellowships at SOAS, University of London (ESRC fellowship) and IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies), Leiden, and has worked at the University of Oxford and the University of Sussex.
Publications
Articles
Marouda, Marina (2019) ‘A tale of three market-places: Chinese commodities, European fairs, Vietnamese entrepreneurs’. Global Networks (in press).
Marouda, Marina (2018) ‘Clinical trials and venture tribulations: stem cell research and the making of Vietnamese bio-entrepreneurs’. Critique of Anthropology, 38 (1) pp 96 – 114.
Marouda, Marina (2017) 'The neglected side of philanthropy: gifts to hungry ghosts in contemporary Việt Nam'. South East Asia Research, 25 (3) pp 251-267.
William Clayton, Juliet Jain, Adele Ladkin & Marina Marouda (2018) The ‘digital glimpse’ as imagining home’. Mobilities, 13:3, 382-396
Ladkin, A., Willis, C., Jain, J., Clayton, W. & Marouda, M. (2016) ‘Business travellers' connections to home: ICTs supporting work‐life balance’. New Technology, Work and Employment, 31: 255-270.
Sleeboom-Faulkner, M., Chekar, C. K., Faulkner, A., Heitmeyer, C., Marouda, M., Rosemann, A., Chaisinthop, N., Chang, H-C, Ely, A., & Kato, M. (2016) ‘Comparing national home-keeping and the regulation of translational stem cell applications: An international perspective’. Social Science & Medicine, 153 (C), pp 240-249.
Marouda, Marina (2014) ‘Potent rituals and the royal dead: historical transformations in Vietnamese ritual practice’. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 45 (3) pp 338-362.
Marouda, Marina (2013) ‘The unending death of an immortal: the state commemoration of Hồ Chí Minh in contemporary Việt Nam’. South East Asia Research 22 (1) pp 303-321.
Book Chapters
Marouda, Marina (2019) ‘The sociality of death: life potentialities and the Vietnamese dead’. In Panagiotopoulos, Anastasis & Espirito Santo, Diana eds. Articulate necrographies: comparative perspectives on the voices and silences of the dead. Berghahn.
Working papers
Marouda, Marina & Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner (2016) “Have we become too ethical”? Discussing research ethics and human vulnerability in an international context’. Medicine, Anthropology, Theory.
Other
Marouda, Marina (2017) “Đời sống và văn hóa của người Việt ở trong nước và ở nước ngoài”. Talk at a workshop organised by the Association of the Vietnamese in Poland, Warsaw.
Marouda, Marina (2015) “Việc nhân học nghiên cứu thực hành Y học”. Trường Đại học Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn – Đại học Quốc gia TP.HCM. Talk at the National University, Ho Chi Minh City.
Publication
2019. ‘A tale of three market-places: Chinese commodities, European fairs, Vietnamese entrepreneurs’. Global Networks