State, society and the market in contemporary Vietnam / [edited by] Ho-Tai Hue-Tam, Mark Sidel.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho, 1948-; Sidel, Mark.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Asia's transformations ; 39
• Physical Description: xx, 249 p. :; maps.

"Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986. Known as Doi Moi (changing to the new), these have gradually transformed the country from a socialist state to a society in which a communist party presides over a neoliberal economy. By exploring the complex relationship between property, the state, society and the market, this book demonstrates how both developmental issues and state-society relations in Vietnam can be explored through the prism of property relations and property rights. The essays in this collection demonstrate how negotiations over property are deeply enmeshed with dynamics of state formation, and covers debates over the role of the state and its relationship to various levels of society, the intrusion of global forces into the lives of marginalized communities and individuals, and how community norms and standards shape and reshape national policy and laws"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction : property, rights, and values : state, society and the market in Vietnam / Hue-Tam Ho Tai and Mark Sidel -- Property and state in fifteenth century Dai Viet : public and private land / John Whitmore -- Property and poverty in southern Vietnam : colonial and postcolonial perspectives / David Biggs -- Bodies in perpetual motion : peasant labor and the state in the DRV / Ken MacLean -- Legal rights to resources versus forest access in the Vietnamese uplands / To Xuan Phuc -- Social demolition : creative destruction and the production of value in Vietnamese land clearance / Erik Harms -- Constructing civil society on a demolition site in Hanoi / Nguyen Vu Hoang -- Property, corruption, and political control over the courts : The Do Son land case / Mark Sidel -- The emerging role of property rights in land and housing disputes in Hanoi / John Gillespie -- The commodification of village songs and dances in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Vietnam / Nhung Tuyet Tran -- Appropriating culture : the case of intangible cultural heritage in Vietnam / Oscar Salemink -- What's in a name? : the case of the Saola / C. Michele Thompson -- Epilogue : property, state and society in Vietnam and beyond / Thomas Sikor.