Yên Mai

Yên Mai defended her PhD in December 2023. Her research focuses on youth participation in development programs run by civil society organizations in a global south context.

Yên's master's thesis, the winner of Youth Research Thesis Competition 2016, investigates how LGBTQ people construct their identities and relationships through heteronormativity.

Yên also works as a writer, translator, and journalist. Her 2018 fiction The Stranger won the highest prize in a Vietnamese literature competition.

Mai, Y. (2023). Vietnamese LGBTQ Youth’s Transition to Adulthood: Expressions of Agency. YOUNG, open access: https://doi.org/10.1177/11033088231205155

Mai, Y. (2022). What happens on the backstage? Emotion work and LGBTQ activism in a collectivist culture. Emotions and Society, 4(2), 181-198.

Mai, Y. (2017). Constructing Queerness in Vietnam: Essentialism, Homonormativity, and Social Hierarchy. Sosiologia, 54, 393-409.

Mai, Y., & Laine, S. (2017). Blogging Activism of Young Educated and Global Women in Tunisia and Vietnam: a two-case study. Partecipazione e Conflitto, 9(3), 893-917.