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Based on ethnographic research conducted over several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai. Here, it is revealed how small-scale traders and market vendors experience the marketplace, reflect upon their trading activities, and negotiate current state policies and regulations. It shows how “traditional” Vietnamese marketplaces have continually been reshaped and adapted to meet the changing political-economic circumstances and civilizational ideals of the time.
“It is a pleasure to read studies of this quality. The author is an accomplished storyteller and she succeeds admirably in the task she sets herself.” • Chris Gregory, Australian National University, Canberra
"The author skillfully weaves together the study of marketplaces and border politics to advance a new understanding of urban trade, morality, and border subjectivities." • Christina Schwenkel, University of California
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Language and Translation
Introduction: Market Frictions
Chapter 1. Town
Chapter 2. Market
Chapter 3. Neigboring
Chapter 4. Illegality
Chapter 5. Morality
Chapter 6. Renewal
Epilogue
References
Index