Upland Transformations in Vietnam

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Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables viii Preface ix Introduction: Opening Boundaries 1 Thomas Sikor Historical Constitution of the Uplands 1 A View from the Mountains: A Critical History of 27 Lowlander-Highlander Relations in Vietnam Oscar Salemink 2 The Politics of Highland Landscapes in Vietnamese Statecraft: 51 (Re)Framing the Dominant Environmental Imaginary Jennifer Sowerwine Authority and the State 3 Who Should Manage the Land? Common Property and 75 Community Responses in Vietnam’s Shifting Uplands Pamela McElwee 4 “Forest Thieves”: State Resource Policies, Market Forces, 92 Struggles over Livelihood and Meanings of Nature in a Northwestern Valley of Vietnam Hoàng Cầm 5 Geographical Settings, Government Policies and 115 Market Forces in the Uplands of Nghệ An Stephen J. Leisz, Rikke Folving Ginzburg, Nguyễn Thanh Lâm, Trần Đức Viên and Kjeld Rasmussen  6 Land Allocations in Vietnam’s Uplands: 146 Negotiating Property and Authority Thomas Sikor Production and Exchange 7 Market Relations in the Northern Uplands of Vietnam 165 Nghiêm Phương Tuyến and Masayuki Yanagisawa 8 The Cultural Politics of Agrarian Change in the 183 Highlands of Ba Vì, Vietnam Jennifer Sowerwine 9 The Development of a Land Market in the 208 Uplands of Vietnam Tô Xuân Phúc 10 “Stretched Livelihoods”: Social and Economic Connections 228 between the Red River Delta and the Central Highlands Alexandra Winkels 11 Changing Labour Relations in a Hmong Village in 244 Sa Pa, Northwestern Vietnam Dương Bích Hạnh Postscript: Towards a Conjunctural Analysis 259 Tania Murray Li Bibliography 262 Contributors 292 Index 295 i Contents ...