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China, Laos, and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety, especially for their large rural populations.
Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate the diverse ways in which rural people build futures in this unique policy landscape and how their aspirations and desires are articulated as projects involving both citizens and the state. This produces a politics of development that happens through and around the state as people navigate discourses of betterment to imagine and make new futures at individual and collective levels.
Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate the diverse ways in which rural people build futures in this unique policy landscape and how their aspirations and desires are articulated as projects involving both citizens and the state. This produces a politics of development that happens through and around the state as people navigate discourses of betterment to imagine and make new futures at individual and collective levels.
Price: $109.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Social Sciences in Asia
Publication Date:
07 August 2023
ISBN: 9789004528055
Format: Hardcover
Phill Wilcox is a Research Associate at Bielefeld University, Germany. She is interested in the politics of late socialism and works on the politics of development in Laos and across the global South.
Jonathan Rigg is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Bristol, UK. He is interested in the human dimensions of agrarian change in Asia and has worked in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Minh T.N. Nguyen is Professor of Social Anthropology at Bielefeld University, Germany, and Visiting Professor at Vietnam National University in Hanoi. She works on care, welfare, migration, and labour in China, Vietnam and in the Global South more generally.
Jonathan Rigg is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Bristol, UK. He is interested in the human dimensions of agrarian change in Asia and has worked in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Minh T.N. Nguyen is Professor of Social Anthropology at Bielefeld University, Germany, and Visiting Professor at Vietnam National University in Hanoi. She works on care, welfare, migration, and labour in China, Vietnam and in the Global South more generally.