In this Book
- Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
summary
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
Luxury and Rubble is the tale of two cities in Ho Chi Minh City. It is the story of two planned, mixed-use residential and commercial developments that are changing the face of Vietnam’s largest city. Since the early 1990s, such developments have been steadily reorganizing urban landscapes across the country. For many Vietnamese, they are a symbol of the country’s emergence into global modernity and of post-socialist economic reforms. However, they are also sites of great contestation, sparking land disputes and controversies over how to compensate evicted residents. In this penetrating ethnography, Erik Harms vividly portrays the human costs of urban reorganization as he explores the complex and sometimes contradictory experiences of individuals grappling with the forces of privatization in a socialist country.
Luxury and Rubble is the tale of two cities in Ho Chi Minh City. It is the story of two planned, mixed-use residential and commercial developments that are changing the face of Vietnam’s largest city. Since the early 1990s, such developments have been steadily reorganizing urban landscapes across the country. For many Vietnamese, they are a symbol of the country’s emergence into global modernity and of post-socialist economic reforms. However, they are also sites of great contestation, sparking land disputes and controversies over how to compensate evicted residents. In this penetrating ethnography, Erik Harms vividly portrays the human costs of urban reorganization as he explores the complex and sometimes contradictory experiences of individuals grappling with the forces of privatization in a socialist country.
Table of Contents
Download Full Book
Download Full EPUB
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction: Luxury and Rubble
- pp. 1-24
- Part I. Luxury
- p. 25
- 2. Civilization City
- pp. 58-85
- Part II. Rubble
- p. 115
- 6. From the Rubble
- pp. 183-209
- Conclusion: Civility and Dispossession
- pp. 211-222
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 223-228
- Bibliography
- pp. 261-274
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520966017
Related ISBN(s)
9780520292512
MARC Record
OCLC
1085399385
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2019-02-13
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY
Project MUSE Mission
Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.
