Nga Dao

The Everyday Politics of Resources

Lives and Landscapes in Northwest Vietnam

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Filled with poignant and sometimes angry narratives by those who have lost their land and traditional livelihoods as well as more triumphant stories from those who have prospered under the capitalist transformation of the region, it is a timely, urgent examination of modernization's benefits and costs.

Produktdetails

• Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781501780875
• ISBN-10: 1501780875
• Artikelnr.: 74063777

Autorenporträt

Nga Dao

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Foundations and Limits of Religious Authority
1. The Cultural Politics of Development
2. State Power and the Conquest of Nature
3. Damming the Black River
4. Subject Making, Market Integration, and Differentiation
5. The Politics of Rubber Plantations
6. Rubber Workers and the Making of Modern Subjects
7. Materialities and Politics of Mining
8. Surviving the Mines, and the Everyday Politics of Marginalization