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Asia Inside Out, 3 (Hardcover)
Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue; Contributions by Erik Harms, Biao Xiang, …
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A pioneering study of historical developments that have shaped Asia
concludes with this volume tracing the impact of ideas and cultures
of people on the move across the continent, whether willingly or
not. In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar
interdisciplinary team of scholars considers the migration of
people-and the ideas, practices, and things they brought with
them-to show the ways in which itinerant groups have transformed
their culture and surroundings. Going beyond time and place, which
animated the first two books, this third one looks at human beings
on the move. Human movement from place to place across time
reinforces older connections while forging new ones. Erik Harms
turns to Vietnam to show that the notion of a homeland as a marked
geographic space can remain important even if that space is not
fixed in people's lived experience. Angela Leung traces how much of
East Asia was brought into a single medical sphere by traveling
practitioners. Seema Alavi shows that the British preoccupation
with the 1857 Indian Revolt allowed traders to turn the Omani
capital into a thriving arms emporium. James Pickett exposes the
darker side of mobility in a netherworld of refugees, political
prisoners, and hostages circulating from the southern Russian
Empire to the Indian subcontinent. Other authors trace the impact
of movement on religious art, ethnic foods, and sports spectacles.
By stepping outside familiar categories and standard narratives,
this remarkable series challenges us to rethink our conception of
Asia in complex and nuanced ways.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press' Open Access publishing program for
monographs. 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.
Much of the world's population inhabits the urban fringe, an area
that is neither fully rural nor urban. Hoc Mon, a district that
lies along a key transport corridor on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh
City, epitomizes one of those places. In "Saigon's Edge," Erik
Harms explores life in Hoc Mon, putting forth a revealing
perspective on how rapid urbanization impacts the people who live
at the intersection of rural and urban worlds.
Unlike the idealized Vietnamese model of urban space, Hoc Mon is
between worlds, neither outside nor inside but always uncomfortably
both. With particular attention to everyday social realities, Harms
demonstrates how living on the margin can be both alienating and
empowering, as forces that exclude its denizens from power and
privilege in the inner city are used to thwart the status quo on
the rural edges.
More than a local case study of urban change, Harms's work also
opens a window on Vietnam's larger turn toward market socialism and
the celebration of urbanization--transformations instructively
linked to trends around the globe.
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