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Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City

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Much of the world's population inhabits the urban fringe, an area that is neither fully rural nor urban. Hóc Môn, 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 Hóc Môn, putting forth a revealing perspective on how rapid urbanization impacts the people who live at the intersection of rural and urban worlds.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Glossary Introduction: Saigon, Inside Out Part I. Social Edginess 1. Bittersweet Transitions: Urbanization on the Fringe of the City 2. Power and Exclusion on the Edge: The Conflation of Rural and Urban Spaces Part II. Space, Time, and Urban Expansion 3. Future Orientations in the Country of Memory: Social Conceptions of Time 4. Negotiating Time and Space: Household, Labor, Land, and Movement Part III. Realizing the Ideal 5. The Road to Paradise: Building the Trans-Asia Highway 6. The Problem of Urban Civilization on Saigon's Edge Conclusion: What Edges Do Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Erik Harms is assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University.

Review :
"Sad and tragic, and at times funny and full of hope, Erik Harms shows how people live in the murky zones of the urban-rural divide, in the runoff, the debris, and wasteland of a now relentless urban industrial expansion. Saigon’s Edge is a wake up call for all of us who study the global city: socialist cities in the throes of global integration and world capitalist utopian imaginings have powerful stories to tell that we cannot afford to ignore. Saigon’s Edge sets a new benchmark on how to study the urban form, capitalist, socialist, and everything in between." -Ralph Litzinger, Duke University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780816656059
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City
  • ISBN-10: 0816656053
  • Publisher Date: 28 Mar 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Width: 140 mm


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