Saigon’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City

Index

ADB (Asian Development Bank), 155– 56, 171 agency and Trans-Asia Highway, 155, 157, 159, 185 agriculture/farmers, 11, 210; agricultural distribution centers and, 14; historical past and, 102–3; industrial, 6, 10; land use and, 18, 72, 245n17; linear time and, 98, 99, 100–101, 102; mixed-use spaces and, 30, 44–46; modernization and, 13–14; peasantbased production contract system and, 200, 256n25; social hierarchical contradictory models and, 201, 256n30; socialist time and, 107; social reproduction and, 130; “social time” and, 98–100, 101–3, 114, 247n21; urbanization effects on, 9–10 âm/dương (yin/yang) complementary oppositions, 21–22, 39, 41–42, 203– 4, 241n56 Americans. See United States/Americans Anagnost, Ann, 259n76 “antisocial” space, 175–81, 253n28 ấp (hamlets) subdivisions, 9, 17, 163– 64, 238 ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), 156, 203, 238 Augustine, 92–93 Bachelard, Gaston, 121, 122, 123, 150–51 Bà Điểm commune, 16, 29, 33, 58, 62, 89 being behind/catching up, 112–13 Berman, Marshall, 230 bồ hòn (soapberry) metaphor, sucking the, 31–35, 46, 225, 242n5 Bourdieu, Pierre, 84, 186, 242n10, 245n5 Butler, Judith, 55 cafés, 71–72, 127, 129, 132–33, 160, 168, 244n40, 246n18, 249n7 catching up/being behind, 112–13 Certeau, Michel de, 22–25 chaos/order control, 184–92, 202–4, 208–9, 211–12 Chayanov, A. V., 133–35 China, 8, 106, 228, 233, 244n51, 255n9, 259n76 city “walls and streets”: thành phố, 37, 38, 52, 240; thành thị, 37 civility/civilization/civilized (văn minh), 174, 211–13 “civilized urban lifestyle”/urban intellectuals . See civilizing rhetoric; inner-city districts civilizing rhetoric, 193, 259n76; country/ city categories and, 13, 229; education and, 213, 258n70; security/ civilization problem and, 11, 203–11, 205–8, 209, 229, 257n47, 257n55, 257n56; socialist policies and, 199; spatial transformations and, 189–92; traffic and, 191, 254n45; “urban civilization” and, 215–18, 259nn74–78; urban civilization on Saigon’s edge and, 195–96, 197, Index 281 210, 212–15, 255n9, 258n63, 258nn70–72 clock time. See linear time coffee-drinking customs, 127, 129, 249n7. See also cafés Communist Party (the party): Fatherland Front and, 107, 193–94, 254n1, 258n71; historical past and, 103–7; progress and, 103–4, 107–8, 111– 14; social change and, 104, 125; teleology of socialist policies and, 108, 110; urbanization and, 105–6 công nghiệp hóa (industrialization). See industrialization country/city categories (rural/urban ideal), 2, 19–25, 37–40, 39, 237, 241n50, 242n12, 243n18; civilizing rhetoric and, 13, 229; factory labor force and, 139; Ho Chi Minh City/ Saigon and, 2–4, 30, 37–40, 38–39, 242nn10–12, 243n18; ideal representations and, 5, 215, 222; identity construction and, 5, 24–25; industrialization and, 40; material world and, 5, 24–25, 225; power/exclusion on the edge and, 61, 62; productive binaries and, 221–23; rural-to-urban migration and, 42–43, 48; Saigon’s edge and, 2, 9–11; social edginess and, 2, 36; social experiences and, 2, 5, 6, 24–26, 77, 83, 84; social hierarchies and, 115–16, 199–201, 248n51, 255n21, 256n25, 256n28, 256n30; socialist policies and, 241n50; social production and, 7; social space and, 5, 77, 222–23, 246n21; “social time” and, 116–19; spatiotemporal oscillation and, 121– 23, 150, 224; state/nation and, 40– 41, 199–201; Tân Thới Nhì and, 17; universal particularity of, 5–6, 5–9, 8–9, 239nn13–14; urban civilization on Saigon’s edge and, 201–3, 211, 256nn33–34; urbanization and, 29–30, 37–49, 242nn10–12, 243n18. See also peasant ideal representations culture and education level (văn hóa), 21, 213, 258n72 cyclical time, 101–3, 124, 247n28, 248n35 đất hoang (wasteland), 3, 18, 53, 106 Davis, Mike, 3 désakota (rural-urban interface zones), 44, 63, 65, 77, 245n7 despair/opportunities, 30, 64–69, 79– 80, 82–85, 128 destruction/reconstruction: and spatial transformations, 171–82, 184–85, 229–32 development (phát triển): being behind/ catching up/promise of, 114–16; double edge of, 171–75, 184–85, 231, 253n28; future-oriented trajectory of, 24, 90–91, 114–16; historical past and, 104–5; Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon and, 106, 205, 208, 257n44, 257n56; infrastructure and, 44, 47–48, 112–13, 165, 184–92, 202–3; linear time and, 107–8; peoples’ agreement/disagreement about progress and, 111–12; social edginess and, 24; social hierarchies and, 115–16; socialist policies and, 104, 105...