1st Edition
State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam Property, Power and Values
Introduction: Property and Values in Vietnam, Hue-Tam Ho Tai and Mark Sidel Part I: Land, Labor and the State 1. Property and Poverty in Southern Vietnam: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives, David Biggs 2. Bodies in Perpetual Motion: Struggles over the Meaning, Value, and Purpose of Fuzzy Labor on the Eve of Collectivization, Ken MacLean 3. Social Demolition: Creative Destruction and the Production of Value in Vietnamese Land Clearance, Erik Harms Part II: Property Rights and Property Disputes 4. Legal Rights to Resources versus Forest Access in the Vietnamese Uplands, To Xuan Phuc 5. Constructing Civil Society on a Hanoi Demolition Site, Nguyen Vu Hoang 6. The Emerging Role of Property Rights in Land and Housing Disputes in Hanoi, John Gillespie 7. Property, State Corruption and the Judiciary: The Do Son Land Case and its Implications, Mark Sidel Part III: Intangible Property 8. The Commodification of Village Songs and Dances in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Vietnam, Nhung Tuyet Tran 9. Appropriating Culture: The Case of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam Oscar Salemink 10. Would a Saola by Any Other Name Still Be a Saola? Appropriating Rare Animals, Expropriating Minority Peoples, C. Michele Thompson Epilogue: Property and State in Vietnam and Beyond, Thomas Sikor
Biography
Hue-Tam Ho Tai is the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History at Harvard University, USA.
Mark Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
