Traders in Motion : : Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace / / ed. by Ann Marie Leshkowich, Kirsten W. Endres.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Barthelmes, Lisa,; Bonnin, Christine,; Bình, Nguyễn Thị Thanh,; Clark, Gracia,; Derks, Annuska,; Endres, Kirsten W.,; Gregory, Chris,; Grillot, Caroline,; Harms, Erik,; Horat, Esther,; Hüwelmeier, Gertrud,; Leshkowich, Ann Marie,; Luong, Hy Van,; Nguyen, Minh T. N.,; Seligmann, Linda J.,; Truitt, Allison,; Turner, Sarah,
• HerausgeberIn: Endres, Kirsten W.,; Leshkowich, Ann Marie,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 15 b&w halftones, 1 diagram

With essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic and political anthropology, geography, and sociology to illuminate how Vietnam's rapidly expandi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Traders in Motion
• Introduction: Space, Mobility, Borders, and Trading Frictions
• Part I Space, Place, and Contentious Politics of Market Redevelopment
• Introduction: The Spatial Politics of Marketplaces
• Chapter One. Making the Marketplace: Traders, Cadres, and Bureaucratic Documents in Lào Cai City
• Chapter Two. “Run and Hide When You See the Police”: Livelihood Diversification and the Politics of the Street Economy in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands
• Chapter Three. Grand Designs? State Agendas and the Lived Realities of Market Redevelopment in Upland Northern Vietnam
• Chapter Four. Ghost Markets and Moving Bazaars in Hanoi’s Urban Space
• Part II Circuits of Mobility, Identities, and Power Relations
• Introduction: Moving and Shaking
• Chapter Five. A Mobile Trading Network from Central Coastal Vietnam: Growth, Social Network, and Gender
• Chapter Six. Money, Risk Taking, and Playing: Shifting Masculinity in a Waste-Trading Community in the Red River Delta
• Chapter Seven. “Strive to Make a Living” in the Era of Urbanization and Modernization: The Story of Petty Traders in a Hanoi Peri-urban Community
• Chapter Eight. Dealing with Uncertainty: Itinerant Street Vendors and Local Officials in Hanoi
• Part III Borderwork
• Introduction: Constructing, Maintaining, and Navigating Boundaries
• Chapter Nine. Regulations and Raids, or the Precarious Place of Gold Shops in Vietnam
• Chapter Ten. Moralities of Commerce in a Northern Vietnamese Trading Community
• Chapter Eleven. Fuel Trade: People, Places, and Transformations along the Coal Briquetting Chain
• Chapter Twelve. Arbitrage over the Beilun/Kalong River: Chinese Adjustments to Border Trade Practices in Vietnam
• Afterword
• References
• Contributors
• Index