Full Description
Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights, and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986. Known as Doi Moi (changing to the new), these have gradually transformed the country from a socialist state to a society in which a communist party presides over a neoliberal economy.
By exploring the complex relationship between property, the state, society, and the market, this book demonstrates how both developmental issues and state-society relations in Vietnam can be explored through the prism of property relations and property rights. The essays in this collection demonstrate how negotiations over property are deeply enmeshed with dynamics of state formation, and covers debates over the role of the state and its relationship to various levels of society, the intrusion of global forces into the lives of marginalized communities and individuals, and how community norms and standards shape and reshape national policy and laws.
With contributors from around the world, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of East and Southeast Asian studies, including politics, culture, society, and law, as well as those interested in the role of the state and property relations more generally.
Contents
Introduction: Property, Rights, and Values: State, Society and the Market in Vietnam Part I: Land, Labor and the State 1. Property and State in Fifteenth Century Dai Viet: Public and Private Land 2. Property and Poverty in Southern Vietnam: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives 3. Bodies in Perpetual Motion: Peasant Labor and the State in the DRV 4. Legal Rights to Resources versus Forest Access in the Vietnamese Uplands 5. Social Demolition: Creative Destruction and the Production of Value in Vietnamese Land Clearance Part II: Property Rights and Property Disputes 6. Constructing Civil Society on a Demolition Site in Hanoi 7. Property, Corruption, and Political Control over the Courts: The Do Son Land Case 8. The Emerging Role of Property Rights in Land and Housing Disputes in Hanoi Part III: Conflicts over Intangible Property 9. The Commodification of Village Songs and Dances in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Vietnam 10. Appropriating Culture: The Case of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam 11. What's in a Name? The Case of the Saola Epilogue: Property, State and Society in Vietnam and Beyond
