Overview
Takes an economic anthropological approach to Vietnam's textile trading and local economies
Provides in-depth ethnographic analysis of economic life in a Vietnamese village
Trade and traders are not looked at through a primarily economic angle, but as enmeshed in the political, social and moral context of contemporary Vietnam
Captures the complexities and diversities of family businesses in Vietnam
Highlights the shifting notions of gender in small-scale trade in Vietnam
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese village of Ninh Hiệp along the Red River Delta, which became a major hub for textiles in the wake of the country’s shift towards market socialism. The author explores how the traders experience, negotiate and react to a marketization process that is markedly shaped by the state’s morally ambivalent governance, and which can be thus characterised as an admixture of socialist and neoliberal ideologies.
How are traders shaping the political economy of Vietnam? How has the labour force changed as textile-handling has become an increasingly profitable undertaking? Horat explores the relationships between traders and local authorities, as well as changing ideas of masculinity and femininity. Focusing on the redevelopment of the market landscape and the increasing share of private ownership that have given rise to great uncertainty, this book provides a we
ll-timed inquiry into current debates of economic development in a uniquely shaped market environment.
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About the author
Esther Horat is Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She wrote her doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany, as well as at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trading in Uncertainty
Book Subtitle: Entrepreneurship, Morality and Trust in a Vietnamese Textile-Handling Village
Authors: Esther Horat
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55648-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55647-5Published: 12 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85716-9Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55648-2Published: 04 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 239
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Economics, Asian Economics, Economic History, Development Economics, Ethnography, Cultural Anthropology