Market Frictions - Trade and Urbanization At the Vietnam-China Border

Based on ethnographic research conducted over several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai. Here, it is revealed how small-scale traders and market vendors experience the marketplace, reflect upon their trading activities, and negotiate current state policies and regulations. It shows how "traditional" Vietnamese marketplaces have continually been reshaped and adapted to meet the changing political-economic circumstances and civilizational ideals of the time.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on Language and Translation

Introduction: Market Frictions

Chapter 1. Town

Chapter 2. Market

Chapter 3. Neigboring

Chapter 4. Illegality

Chapter 5. Morality

Chapter 6. Renewal

Epilogue

References

Index

About the author

Kirsten W. Endres is Head of the Research Group The Political and Economic Anthropology of Southeast Asia at the Department Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/S. Her previous publications include Performing the Divine. Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam (NIAS Press, 2011) and the co-edited volume Traders in Motion. Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace (Cornell University Press, 2018).

Summary

Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lao Cai.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten W Endres, Kirsten W. Endres, Endres Kirsten W.
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781789202441
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-244-1
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy; Max Planck Studies in Anthropo; Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; China, Vietnam, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Free Enterprise & Capitalism, Sociology and anthropology, Development economics and emerging economies