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This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand
observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese
village of Ninh Hie p along the Red River Delta, which became a
major hub for textiles in the wake of the country's shift towards
market socialism. The author explores how the traders experience,
negotiate and react to a marketization process that is markedly
shaped by the state's morally ambivalent governance, and which can
be thus characterised as an admixture of socialist and neoliberal
ideologies. How are traders shaping the political economy of
Vietnam? How has the labour force changed as textile-handling has
become an increasingly profitable undertaking? Horat explores the
relationships between traders and local authorities, as well as
changing ideas of masculinity and femininity. Focusing on the
redevelopment of the market landscape and the increasing share of
private ownership that have given rise to great uncertainty, this
book provides a we ll-timed inquiry into current debates of
economic development in a uniquely shaped market environment.
This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand
observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese
village of Ninh Hie p along the Red River Delta, which became a
major hub for textiles in the wake of the country's shift towards
market socialism. The author explores how the traders experience,
negotiate and react to a marketization process that is markedly
shaped by the state's morally ambivalent governance, and which can
be thus characterised as an admixture of socialist and neoliberal
ideologies. How are traders shaping the political economy of
Vietnam? How has the labour force changed as textile-handling has
become an increasingly profitable undertaking? Horat explores the
relationships between traders and local authorities, as well as
changing ideas of masculinity and femininity. Focusing on the
redevelopment of the market landscape and the increasing share of
private ownership that have given rise to great uncertainty, this
book provides a we ll-timed inquiry into current debates of
economic development in a uniquely shaped market environment.
Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia provides original,
nuanced insights into social meanings of money and wealth in moral
economies of Asia. Through case studies from South and Southeast
Asia, the collection sheds important light on how the new
mobilities and wealth created by neoliberal globalization transform
people's ways of life, notions of personhood, and their meaning
making of the world. It highlights the moral dilemmas and anxieties
emerging from the profound socio-economic transformations that are
taking place across the region and deepens our understanding of
local cultures as well as the inner contradictions of global
capital in Asian contexts. With rich ethnographic insights and a
diverse range of empirical contexts, chapters in this volume reveal
multifaceted complexities and contradictions in the relationship
between money and moralities. Money, they affirm, is not an
impersonal, objective economic instrument with homogenizing powers
but a culturally constructed and socially mediated currency in
which meanings are constantly contested and re-negotiated across
time and space.
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