Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon

Erik Harms

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2016

Luxury and Rubble

Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon

Erik Harms

Volume 32 in the series Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520966017

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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.

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Harms Erik :

Erik Harms is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University and the author of Saigon’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Luxury and Rubble Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I. Luxury
1. Civilizing the Wastelands: A Short History of Urban Development in Phú Mỹ Hưng Open Access Download PDF	27
2. Civilization City Open Access Download PDF	58
3. Exercising Consciousness: Self and Society in a Privatizing Space of Exclusion Open Access Download PDF	86
Part II. Rubble
4. Thủ Thiêm Futures Past: A Short History of Seeing without Seeing Open Access Download PDF	117
5. Building a Civilized, Modern, and Sentimental City Open Access Download PDF	154
6. From the Rubble Open Access Download PDF	183
Conclusion: Civility and Dispossession Open Access Download PDF	211
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	223
Notes Open Access Download PDF	229
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	261
Index Open Access Download PDF	275

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 304

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Published: October 21, 2016
ISBN: 9780520966017