{"product_id":"saigons-edge-on-the-margins-of-ho-chi-minh-city-paperback-softback-9780816656066","title":"Saigon's Edge; On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816656066","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSaigon's Edge\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOn the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eErik Harms (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816656066\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 March 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.44 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sad and tragic, and at times funny and full of hope, Erik Harms shows how people live in the murky zones of the urban-rural divide, in the runoff, the debris, and wasteland of a now relentless urban industrial expansion. \u003ci\u003eSaigon’s Edge \u003c\/i\u003eis a wake up call for all of us who study the global city: socialist cities in the throes of global integration and world capitalist utopian imaginings have powerful stories to tell that we cannot afford to ignore. \u003ci\u003eSaigon’s Edge\u003c\/i\u003e sets a new benchmark on how to study the urban form, capitalist, socialist, and everything in between.\" -Ralph Litzinger, Duke University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMuch of the world’s population inhabits the urban fringe, an area that is neither fully rural nor urban. HÓc MÔn, a district that lies along a key transport corridor on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, epitomizes one of those places. In \u003ci\u003eSaigon’s Edge\u003c\/i\u003e, Erik Harms explores life in HÓc MÔn, putting forth a revealing perspective on how rapid urbanization impacts the people who live at the intersection of rural and urban worlds.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eUnlike the idealized Vietnamese model of urban space, HÓc MÔn is between worlds, neither outside nor inside but always uncomfortably both. With particular attention to everyday social realities, Harms demonstrates how living on the margin can be both alienating and empowering, as forces that exclude its denizens from power and privilege in the inner city are used to thwart the status quo on the rural edges. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eMore than a local case study of urban change, Harms’s work also opens a window on Vietnam’s larger turn toward market socialism and the celebration of urbanization-transformations instructively linked to trends around the globe.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Saigon, Inside Out\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Social Edginess\u003cbr\u003e 1. Bittersweet Transitions: Urbanization on the Fringe of the City\u003cbr\u003e 2. Power and Exclusion on the Edge: The Conflation of Rural and Urban Spaces\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Space, Time, and Urban Expansion\u003cbr\u003e 3. Future Orientations in the Country of Memory: Social Conceptions of Time\u003cbr\u003e 4. Negotiating Time and Space: Household, Labor, Land, and Movement\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Realizing the Ideal\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Road to Paradise: Building the Trans-Asia Highway \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Problem of Urban Civilization on Saigon's Edge\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: What Edges Do\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570070745368,"sku":"9780816656066","price":18.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/saigons-edge-on-the-margins-of-ho-chi-minh-city-paperback-softback-9780816656066","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}