Saigon's edge : on the margins of Ho Chi Minh city / Erik Harms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harms, Erik (Anthropologist)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City.

Urbanization.

Urban anthropology--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City.

Urban anthropology.

City and town life--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City.

City and town life.

Sociology, Urban--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Much of the world's population inhabits the urban fringe, an area that is neither fully rural nor urban. Hoc Mon, a district that lies along a key transport corridor on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, epitomizes one of those places. In ""Saigon's Edge,"" Erik Harms explores life in Hoc Mon, putting forth a revealing perspective on how rapid urbanization impacts the people who live at the intersection of rural and urban worlds. Unlike the idealized Vietnamese model of urban space, Hoc Mon is between worlds, neither outside nor inside but always uncomfortably both. With particular attention t

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Introduction: Saigon, Inside Out; Part I. Social Edginess; Part II. Space, Time, and Urban Expansion; Part III. Realizing the Ideal; Conclusion: What Edges Do; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4624-8

0-8166-7663-1

OCLC:

733040284