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A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety

Social Sciences
Open Access · Gold
Author(s): Allen L. Tran
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication year: 2023
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The Story So Far

Short impact summary

A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety (2023), published by University of California Press. Pedagogical anchor (strength 0.6). Scholarly uptake (strength 0.6).

Full narrative

A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety was published by University of California Press in 2023. Conceptually, the work connects to Prosperity, Worry, Ho chi minh, Politics and Anxiety.

OpenAlex records 18 citations. Citations peaked in 2025 with 12 citing works. Notable citing venues include Anthropology and Medicine, Culture Medicine and Psychiatry and Anthropologica. Inferred role: Pedagogical anchor and Scholarly uptake.

Teaching use: 1 OCW. 5125 recorded downloads via open-access infrastructure. SDG alignment: Decent work and economic growth.

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18
Total Citations
⭐ Top 10% Cited
2024–2026
5,125
Downloads (OAPEN)
2023 (Jan–Dec)
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7
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Citation context via scite
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Additional signals
📚 WorldCat · 2 🎓 Course syllabus 🌍 Reach · 6 countries

Inferred roles

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🎓 Academic & Scientific
Scholarly uptake Moderate
📚 Readership & Educational
Pedagogical anchor Moderate
🏛 Practical & Real-World
Sustainability & policy relevance Moderate
Strong (≥0.80) Moderate (0.50–0.79) Emerging (<0.50)

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Attention landscape Event Data

This work has 0 recorded events globally.

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Reader reception Books

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    • 🏆 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Anthropology

Citation context scite

  • Total: 7
  • Supporting: 0
  • Mentioning: 7
  • Contradicting: 0

Who is citing this work? OpenAlex

Analysis of 18 citing works. 116.7% come from the Top 10 institutions. Median citing paper cited 0 times itself.

book-chapter (13)article (4)book (1) Anthropology and MedicineSozioökonomische Bildung und WissenschaftAnthropologica
United States of America (14) Germany (3) China (1) Indonesia (1) Netherlands (1) Peru (1)
Institutional sectors
Education (17) Facility (1)
  • 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)
  • Leipzig University (1)
  • Yohanes Kartika Herdiyanto (1)
  • Dat Manh Nguyen (1)
  • Julio Villa‐Palomino (1)
  • Putu Aryani (1)
  • Katherine A. Mason (1)
  • Claudia Lang (1)
  • Florin Cristea (1)
  • Alexandra Hiromi Shimabukuro Higa (1)
  • Guillermo Percy Cornejo Rossello (1)
  • Kim Anh Dang (1)

Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption

Evidence of structured teaching use, reading lists, and library availability.

OpenCourseWare Mentions Google Custom Search

  • "...Transition to Higher Education in Northern Ireland (25). Astronomy (20). Learning Languages (20). Mental Health (19). Visual Art (19). Education Careers (18)...."

Library & Community Access Open Library

Contributors & affiliations OpenAlex

1 author · 0 institutions

Authors

  • Allen L. Tran First Corresponding

Concepts & topics OpenAlex

18 specific concepts identified.
Prosperity Worry Ho chi minh Politics Anxiety Mental health Curiosity Psychology Political science Political economy Economic growth Sociology Social psychology Socioeconomics Economics Psychiatry Law Low income

UN Sustainable Development Goals OpenAlex

1 targets detected.
Decent work and economic growth (0.50)

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Citations OpenAlex

18 citing works (most recent first)
YearTitleVenueDOI
2024 Dreaming big with little therapy devices: automated therapy from India Anthropology and Medicine 10.1080/13648470.2024.2378727
2025 Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi Unknown 10.1525/luminos.249
2024 Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19 Culture Medicine and Psychiatry 10.1007/s11013-024-09846-8
2024 Después del manicomio Anthropologica 10.18800/anthropologica.202401.005
2024 Global knowledge flows and the psychiatric encounter in Indonesia Medical Anthropology Quarterly 10.1111/maq.12906
2024 Reconfiguring Buddhism for Youth in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Oxford University Press eBooks 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197658697.013.22
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
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