A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety
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Short impact summary
A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety (2023), published by University of California Press, has been cited 18 times — enough that OpenAlex puts it in the top 10% of works in its field and year. Beyond that, it has been downloaded 5,430 times.
Full narrative
A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety by Allen L. Tran was published by University of California Press in 2023. Conceptually, the work connects to Prosperity, Worry, Ho chi minh, Politics and Anxiety. The book was recognised: ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Anthropology.
OpenAlex records 18 citations. That places it in the top 10% of works in its field and year of publication. Citations peaked in 2025 with 12 citing works. Notable citing venues include University of California Press eBooks, Anthropology and Medicine and Sozioökonomische Bildung und Wissenschaft. The citing works include 12 book chapters, 4 journal articles and 1 book. They come from 6 countries, led by the United States, Germany and China.
It has been downloaded 5,430 times via OAPEN and Ubiquity Press. Open Library reports a combined count of 2 reading logs and catalog editions. Its subject matter aligns with Decent work and economic growth among the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Access Availability
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.162
- OA status: Gold
- OA source: OAPEN
- OA basis: OAPEN record found for this title
- OA evidence chain: OAPEN → Publisher-claimed → ACLS/Arcadia rule → OpenAlex/Crossref
- OA verification: Claimed OA, not in DOAB
- Landing page: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.162
- OAPEN Library: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76123
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- Bucknell Digital Commons (Bucknell University)
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Reader reception Books
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- 🏆 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Anthropology
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Citation context scite
- Total: 8
- Supporting: 0
- Mentioning: 8
- Contradicting: 0
Who is citing this work? OpenAlex
Analysis of 18 citing works. 100.0% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →
- University of California, Riverside (12)
- Udayana University (1)
- NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (1)
- Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (1)
- Bielefeld University (1)
- University of Münster (1)
- Brown University (1)
- University of Michigan (1)
- Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University (1)
- Freie Universität Berlin (1)
- Leipzig University (1)
- Yohanes Kartika Herdiyanto (1)
- Dat Manh Nguyen (1)
- Christina Schwenkel (1)
- Julio Villa‐Palomino (1)
- Putu Aryani (1)
- Katherine A. Mason (1)
- Florin Cristea (1)
- Alexandra Hiromi Shimabukuro Higa (1)
- Guillermo Percy Cornejo Rossello (1)
Open Science Signals PRISM
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Open Peer Review PRISM
- Status: No explicit PRISM review record returned
- Interpretation: neutral signal — this does not mean the book had no peer review; only that PRISM returned no explicit title-level review metadata.
- Publisher context: University of California Press
Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption
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- Allen L. Tran First Corresponding
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Citations OpenAlex
| Year | Title | Venue | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Happy to Be Squeezed Dry: The Will to Learn at Work in Contemporary Market Socialist Vietnam | Sozioökonomische Bildung und Wissenschaft | 10.1007/978-3-658-49248-9_6 |
| 2025 | Act 3. Social Distancing: Mutual Care | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.249.i |
| 2025 | Pandemic Figure 5. Migrant Workers: The Philippine Singer (Ca Sĩ Philippines) | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.249.j |
| 2025 | Coda: Epi(demi)c Endings | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.249.k |
| 2025 | Pandemic Figure 4. Nonessential Workers: The Grab Driver (Anh Grab) | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.249.h |
| 2025 | Act 2. Lockdown: Self-Care | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.249.g |
| 2025 | Introduction: The Other COVID Exception | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.249.c |
| 2025 | Pandemic Figure 2. Essential Workers: The Security Guard (Người Bảo Vệ) | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.249.d |
| 2025 | Preface: The Pandemic as Critical Sound Event | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.249.a |
| 2025 | Pandemic Figure 3. Domestic Workers: The Housekeeper (Người Giúp Việc) | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.249.f |
| 2025 | Act 1. Quarantine: State Care | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.249.e |
| 2025 | Pandemic Figure 1. Superspreaders: Patient 17 (Bệnh Nhân 17) | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.249.b |
| 2025 | Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.249 |
| 2024 | Global knowledge flows and the psychiatric encounter in Indonesia | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 10.1111/maq.12906 |
| 2024 | Dreaming big with little therapy devices: automated therapy from India | Anthropology and Medicine | 10.1080/13648470.2024.2378727 |
| 2024 | Reconfiguring Buddhism for Youth in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | Oxford University Press eBooks | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197658697.013.22 |
| 2024 | Después del manicomio | Anthropologica | 10.18800/anthropologica.202401.005 |
| 2024 | Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19 | Culture Medicine and Psychiatry | 10.1007/s11013-024-09846-8 |
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