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Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam (Paperback)
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Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
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Vu tells the story of Vietnamese farmers who have survived a
30-year war of independence and unification, its damaging legacies
in their living environment, and the unfamiliar pressure of the
market economy. Vietnamese famers are neither simply obedient
beneficiaries of policy decisions made by higher authorities nor
convention-ridden cyphers. Rather, they are sophisticated
decision-makers capable of navigating the changes threatening to
disrupt their lives over multiple generations. Vu's research pays
particular attention to those farmers whose families have suffered
from direct and indirect exposure to the toxic herbicides popularly
known as Agent Orange. She demonstrates that their priority has
tended to be the protection of their existing assets, rather than
pursuing the promise of new riches, and that this tendency has
helped them maintain stability in a turbulent economic environment.
A fascinating study for scholars of Vietnamese anthropology and
society, the book will also be of interest to sociologists and
economists with a broader interest in the impact of economic and
political change on rural lifestyles.
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