After decades of de-urbanisation under the socialist economic regime, urban growth is now exploding in Vietnam: the country’s urban population has doubled since 1980. This Focus offers a fresh perspective on the production of urban forms, the reconfiguration of local governance, and the renegotiation of daily practices, mainly in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Our intention is not only to highlight the path-breaking transformations taking place in today’s Vietnam, but also to contribute to the ‘Asianisation’ of urban studies’ paradigms through grounded analysis and interpretation, based on extensive fieldwork conducted with local colleagues in Vietnamese cities and neighbourhoods.
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The Study |
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4 - 5 Recent forms of social contestation with regard to land tenure in Cambodia |
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6 - 7 Shifting Ground? State and market in the uplands of Northeast India |
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8 - 9 From hyper-capitals to shadow capitals: An archipelago of Korean capital cities |
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10 - 11 Sri Mariamman worship in the Gulf of Thailand |
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12 - 13 Cultivating Orientalism |
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14 - 15 Dialogues with memory: three conversations on heritage |
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16 Bollywood dreams: far beyond Indian shores |
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The Region The following articles come from ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute’s ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC). The ASC is devoted to research on issues that pertain to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an institution and a process. ASC conducts studies and provides inputs and ideas to ASEAN member states and the ASEAN Secretariat on issues and events that call for collective ASEAN actions and responses, especially those pertinent to building the ASEAN Community. |
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17 Five facts about the ASEAN Economic Community |
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18 The ASEAN chairmanship: duties, obligations and challenges |
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19 ASEAN’s transboundary issues: a hazy lining to regional solutions? |
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The Adspace |
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The Review |
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22 Dharavi, Mumbai: a special slum? |
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23 How popular culture defines identity |
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24 The making of India’s modernity |
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24 The making of Mongolian Buddhism |
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26 Public space in urban Asia |
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26 Human Trafficking in Colonial Vietnam |
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The Focus: Producing & living the city in Vietnam |
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29 - 31 Engaging with the urban field in Vietnam: crossing approaches |
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32 - 33 Understanding the Vietnamese urban fabric from the inside: a view from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City alleyway neighbourhoods |
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34 - 35 Filling the urban transport infrastructure gap: the challenge of building mass rapid transit systems |
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36 The production of the city: reshaping state-society relation |
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37 Migrant workers in suburban HCMC: towards an emergent autonomous activism? |
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38 - 39 Tourism, urbanisation and globalisation in Vietnam |
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40 - 41 Drafting and implementing urban heritage preservation policies: a ‘trial and error’ approach for Ho Chi Minh City |
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42 Worshipping ancestors in a peri-urban context |
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43 Wedding gift-giving: a glimpse on evolving sociability practices |
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The Network |
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44 - 45 IIAS Announcements
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44 Researching brokerage with visual methods - turning development into a category of practice |
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46 - 47 In Memoriam: Mario Rutten, Colleague-supervisor-friend |
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48 - 49 IIAS Reports Ocean of Law: Intermixed Legal Systems across the Indian Ocean world by Mahmood Kooria & Sanne Ravensbergen |
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50 - 51 Announcements An Asianist’s eye on the digital by Jacqueline Hicks |
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52 Special feature: The Alumnus |
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| 53......... | IIAS Research and Projects |
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| 54 - 55... | IIAS Fellowship Programme In the spotlight: Daniela De Simone & Minna Valjakka |
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The Portrait |
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56 Journey to Dunhuang: Buddhist art of the Silk Road caves |
