Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam

Drummond, Lisa; Thomas, Mandy

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“…Sidewalks in Vietnam's cities and the side of the road in Vietnam's rural spaces cater to many different types of person. Regardless of whether the space is “public” in the sense that it is “owned” and maintained by the state it is most often appropriated by small, often family‐run private enterprises (Drummond ; Drummond and Thomas ). Besides the proprietor and the consumer, the space is also home to mobile vendors selling different types of material goods like cigarettes, dried cuttlefish, lottery tickets, ice cream, newspapers, soda, mango, eggs, and massages.…”

Section: Chúc Sc Khóe (“To Good Health”): Whiteness and Masculinity Imentioning

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Rethinking Whiteness and Masculinity in Geography: Drinking Alcohol in the Field in Vietnam

Gillen

2015

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This paper evaluates the spatial politics of fieldwork in Vietnam in order to think through the connections between whiteness, masculinity, and geography. In drawing attention to how the consumption of alcohol underwrites daily activities in Vietnam, as well as fieldwork activities, I show that research ethics are underpinned by unique spatial contexts that do not conform to conventional accounts of masculinity and whiteness in the global North. I make three interrelated arguments. First, I argue that debates in geography about whiteness and masculinity must be understood alongside fieldwork experiences in the global South. Second, I invite geographers to think through how research ethics are shaped by spatially contingent productions of whiteness and masculinity. Lastly, I challenge geographers to keep pace with how disruptive categories like whiteness and masculinity are produced outside of the global North.

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Section: Chúc Sc Khóe (“To Good Health”): Whiteness and Masculinity Imentioning

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Rethinking Whiteness and Masculinity in Geography: Drinking Alcohol in the Field in Vietnam

Gillen

2015

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“…En témoigne la proximité frappante entre les affiches de propagande, vantant l'émergence d'une ville dite « civilisée et moderne » (đô thị văn minh, hiện dậi), et le marketing urbain développé dans les publicités des promoteurs, à l'image du slogan de Saigon South : « a communaly cultural lifestyle in a civilized city ». La société de consommation des loisirs participe bien à une société du consensus politique (Drummond et Thomas, 2003).…”

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“…Ce thème est encore peu étudié dans les rares travaux portant sur les productions et pratiques culturelles dans les villes vietnamiennes (Drummond et Thomas, 2003 ;Earl, 2004 ;Harms, 2009). Les loisirs constituent pourtant une façon concrète d'approcher les usages de la richesse nouvellement produite, sa répartition et le sens qui lui est affecté.…”

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2012

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Cet article propose d’envisager l’émergence du Việt Nam par une approche socio-spatiale des pratiques de loisirs à Hồ Chí Minh Ville. Celle-ci constitue une façon concrète d’approcher les usages de la richesse nouvellement produite, sa répartition et le sens qui lui est affecté. En outre, les loisirs offrent un point de vue original sur la fabrique urbaine, la construction des identités citadines et la façon dont les habitants négocient leur accès à la ville, dans un contexte renouvelé d’enrichissement et d’urbanisation. Nous posons comme hypothèse que les pratiques de loisirs à Hồ Chí Minh Ville aboutissent à une différenciation accrue des espaces publics et privés depuis la politique du Renouveau, engagée à partir de 1986.

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“…Research on the processes and impacts of these Southeast Asian ‘social evils’ projects in Western academia is profoundly thin, but the discourses that support these policies have been better addressed. Drummond and Thomas (2003), in their edited book about contemporary consumer cultures in urban Vietnam, allude to the intractability of social evils when they argue that some Vietnamese are now perplexed that Vietnam’s urban youth are adopting some of the same individualistic, selfish characteristics as their Western counterparts. From the point of view of many Vietnamese people,…”

Section: Urban Identity In Southeast Asia: An Analysis Of the Divergementioning

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Tourism and Entrepreneurialism in Southeast Asian Cities

Gillen

2010

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This study reviews recent literatures related to entrepreneurship in the Southeast Asian urban tourism sector. The study is divided into three sections. The first section concerns urban identity. I outline recent debates surrounding the disparity between tourist stereotypes of the region’s cities and discursive attempts by the local governments to counter them. I argue that the twin themes of harmony and convergence are used by Southeast Asia’s urban governments to promote their cities as appealing, safe, and multicultural places to visit. In the second section, I present an alternative approach to traditional understandings of state–society relations in the region. Instead of explaining local resistances to a predatory state, I highlight recent research that favors a relational, cooperative reading of the production of the tourism industry in Southeast Asia. Lastly, I introduce the political implications for urban tourism growth, focusing on the desires of the Southeast Asian urban population to use tourism as a tool to expedite their political goals.

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Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam

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Rethinking Whiteness and Masculinity in Geography: Drinking Alcohol in the Field in Vietnam

Rethinking Whiteness and Masculinity in Geography: Drinking Alcohol in the Field in Vietnam

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