The Everyday Politics of Resources
eBook - ePub

The Everyday Politics of Resources

Lives and Landscapes in Northwest Vietnam

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Everyday Politics of Resources

Lives and Landscapes in Northwest Vietnam

About this book

The Everyday Politics of Resources explores the impact of development processes on the lives, livelihoods, and landscapes of the people of Northwest Vietnam. Over the past two decades, the homes and farms of hundreds of thousands of people have been appropriated to make way for dams, rubber plantations, and mining operations. While this development has enriched the state and private enterprises, it has also resulted in widespread hardship, impoverishment, and long-term environmental destruction.

Nga Dao draws on more than twenty years of on-the-ground research in the region to show how these developments have affected people in vastly uneven ways, creating wealth and stability for some while dispossessing others. 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, The Everyday Politics of Resources is a timely, urgent examination of modernization's benefits and costs.

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Information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781501780899
Subtopic
Asian Politics

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Resources, Territory, and Everyday Politics in Contemporary Vietnam
  4. 1. The Cultural Politics of Development
  5. Part I: Dams
  6. Part II: Rubber
  7. Part III: Mines
  8. Conclusion
  9. Notes
  10. References
  11. Index