Connected and Disconnected in Viet Nam : Remaking Social Relations in a Post-Socialist Nation.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (392 pages)
- Vietnam Series .
- Vietnam Series .
Intro -- Preface -- Introduction: An Overture to New Ethnographic Research on Connection and Disconnection in Vietnam -- Social Relations, Regional Variation, and Economic Inequality in Contemporary Vietnam: A View from Two Vietnamese Rural Communities -- The Dynamics of Return Migration in Vietnam's Rural North: Charity, Community and Contestation -- Women as Fish: Rural Migration and Displacement in Vietnam -- 'Here, Everyone is Like Everyone Else!': Exile and Re-emplacement in a Vietnamese Leprosy Village -- 'The Red Seedlings of the Central Highlands': Social Relatedness and Political Integration of Select Ethnic Minority Groups in Post-War Vietnam -- The Struggle to be Poor in Vietnam's Northern Borderlands: Political Metis and Biopower in the Local State Arena -- Thai Entourage Politics in the Socialist State of Vietnam -- Searching for a Khmer Monastic Higher Education in Post‑Socialist Vietnam -- Described, Inscribed, Written Off: Heritagisation as (Dis)connection -- Geographies of Connection and Disconnection: Narratives of Seafaring in Lý Sơn -- Contributors.
Vietnam's shift to a market-based society has brought about profound realignments in its people's relations with each other. As the nation continues its retreat from the legacies of war and socialism, significant social rifts have emerged that divide citizens by class, region and ethnicity.