Introduction 1. Urban Spatial Reconfiguration 2. Land Tenure, Property Rights, and Urban Development 3. Farming at the Edge of the City 4. Making a Living in the City 5. The Urban Village 6. Gender Relations in the New Urban Landscape Conclusion
Biography
Gisele Bousquet is a Lecturer in the University of California Extension, Berkeley, California State University East Bay, and the College of Alameda, USA
"The book's most compelling insight is how women in particular gained new economic power, especially in their role as daughters who remained in the village, upending the long-standing emphasis on patrilocality. While the book’s scope is limited to one setting, it provides a comprehensive portrait of how these residents responded to the encroaching city and reconfigured their livelihoods and economic activities in response."
A. Truitt, Tulane University, CHOICE
'Drawing on a wealth of historical information on Hanoi and sixteen years of fieldwork in thiscommunity, Bousquet explores the social, spatial, and economic transformation of this “urbanvillage”...extremely valuable works by an experienced field worker that contribute a great deal to the growing corpus of excellent work in the anthropology of Vietnam.'
Alfred Montoya is associate professor of Anthropology at Trinity University, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
