Hoai Anh Tran
Biographic Data
| ID | 5437454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hoai Anh Tran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hoai Anh |
| FAMILY NAME | Tran |
| SIGNATURE | TRAN H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Malmö University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2612-8187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The publicness of transit spaces
Recent urban studies have increasingly recognized public transport and transit spaces as important public spaces, yet the specific nature of their publicness remains underexplored. This paper examines bus stops in Malmö, Sweden, focusing on how their function as waiting spaces intersects with their role in urban public life. Through ethnographic observations, travel diaries, and interviews, the study investigates waiting as a social activity and …
Waiting, transit assemblages and the making of public spaces
Inconventional planning practice, transit spaces such as bus stations and bus stops tend to be designed as generic technical fixtures. Little consideration is paid to various waiting practices, the different ways transit passengers interact with the material and social structures at the bus stop and its surrounding, and the potential of transit spaces to serve as urban public spaces. From an assemblage perspective, this study proposes to see the …
Beyond dualistic categories
Although large urban areas in cities of the Global South are shaped by individuals, households and small entrepreneurs, these shapings are often dismissed or at best considered as temporary happenings that are tolerated in waiting for the implementation of ‘proper’ large-scale projects. In rapidly urbanizing Vietnam, tensions between the representations of space by the state and capitalist actors and the spatial practices of ordinary citizens are…
Rhythm of endurance and contestation
Rhythms of endurance, the practice of care and the peripheral political
Review of AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019; 120 pp. 9781509523368
Ordering the exemplary urban spaces
Vietnam has a long tradition of social engineering through which the ordering of urban space has effectively been used to enforce the state's vision of political and social order. With the country currently in transition from a centrally planned to a market‐oriented economy, the ordering of urban spaces is currently all the more important. This is prominently manifested in the numerous beautification projects that are being implemented in Vietnam…
Is ‘gentrification’ an analytically useful concept for Vietnam? A case study of Hanoi
Despite the rapid transformation in the urban landscape of Vietnam, a simple and uncritical application of the ‘gentrification’ concept out of the specific spatial and temporal context of the country is problematic. Not only does the phenomenon progress in a highly compressed temporal scale compared with similar processes in cities in the Global North, it is also embedded within a paradigmatic shift of the entire socio-economic system. This paper…
Gender and class in urban transport
This paper presents empirical findings of a study on the mobility situation of people of different gender, age and class in two residential areas each in two fast-growing Asian cities with high rates of motorization, Xian in China and Hanoi in Vietnam. Notable class and gender differences in travel patterns were found in both cities. Respondents in the old and poorer residential areas walk more, while better-off respondents in the new areas use m…
Changing housing policy in Vietnam
Favoured Owners, Neglected Tenants
This paper presents selected findings from the project ‘Privatisation of public housing in Hanoi, the impacts on housing quality and social equality’ which was financed by the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA). The project analyses the consequences of privatisation on the housing conditions of those tenants and owners who live in privatised and partly privatised multi-family apartment buildings. This paper focuses on the conseque…
Is ‘gentrification’ an analytically useful concept for Vietnam? A case study of Hanoi
Despite the rapid transformation in the urban landscape of Vietnam, a simple and uncritical application of the ‘gentrification’ concept out of the specific spatial and temporal context of the country is problematic. Not only does the phenomenon progress in a highly compressed temporal scale compared with similar processes in cities in the Global North, it is also embedded within a paradigmatic shift of the entire socio-economic system. This paper…
Rhythm of endurance and contestation
Changing housing policy in Vietnam
Gender and class in urban transport
This paper presents empirical findings of a study on the mobility situation of people of different gender, age and class in two residential areas each in two fast-growing Asian cities with high rates of motorization, Xian in China and Hanoi in Vietnam. Notable class and gender differences in travel patterns were found in both cities. Respondents in the old and poorer residential areas walk more, while better-off respondents in the new areas use m…
Ordering the exemplary urban spaces
Vietnam has a long tradition of social engineering through which the ordering of urban space has effectively been used to enforce the state's vision of political and social order. With the country currently in transition from a centrally planned to a market‐oriented economy, the ordering of urban spaces is currently all the more important. This is prominently manifested in the numerous beautification projects that are being implemented in Vietnam…
Favoured Owners, Neglected Tenants
This paper presents selected findings from the project ‘Privatisation of public housing in Hanoi, the impacts on housing quality and social equality’ which was financed by the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA). The project analyses the consequences of privatisation on the housing conditions of those tenants and owners who live in privatised and partly privatised multi-family apartment buildings. This paper focuses on the conseque…
Favoured Owners, Neglected Tenants
This paper presents selected findings from the project ‘Privatisation of public housing in Hanoi, the impacts on housing quality and social equality’ which was financed by the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA). The project analyses the consequences of privatisation on the housing conditions of those tenants and owners who live in privatised and partly privatised multi-family apartment buildings. This paper focuses on the conseque…
Changing housing policy in Vietnam
Gender and class in urban transport
This paper presents empirical findings of a study on the mobility situation of people of different gender, age and class in two residential areas each in two fast-growing Asian cities with high rates of motorization, Xian in China and Hanoi in Vietnam. Notable class and gender differences in travel patterns were found in both cities. Respondents in the old and poorer residential areas walk more, while better-off respondents in the new areas use m…
Is ‘gentrification’ an analytically useful concept for Vietnam? A case study of Hanoi
Despite the rapid transformation in the urban landscape of Vietnam, a simple and uncritical application of the ‘gentrification’ concept out of the specific spatial and temporal context of the country is problematic. Not only does the phenomenon progress in a highly compressed temporal scale compared with similar processes in cities in the Global North, it is also embedded within a paradigmatic shift of the entire socio-economic system. This paper…
Rhythms of endurance, the practice of care and the peripheral political
Review of AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019; 120 pp. 9781509523368
Ordering the exemplary urban spaces
Vietnam has a long tradition of social engineering through which the ordering of urban space has effectively been used to enforce the state's vision of political and social order. With the country currently in transition from a centrally planned to a market‐oriented economy, the ordering of urban spaces is currently all the more important. This is prominently manifested in the numerous beautification projects that are being implemented in Vietnam…
Rhythm of endurance and contestation
Beyond dualistic categories
Although large urban areas in cities of the Global South are shaped by individuals, households and small entrepreneurs, these shapings are often dismissed or at best considered as temporary happenings that are tolerated in waiting for the implementation of ‘proper’ large-scale projects. In rapidly urbanizing Vietnam, tensions between the representations of space by the state and capitalist actors and the spatial practices of ordinary citizens are…
Waiting, transit assemblages and the making of public spaces
Inconventional planning practice, transit spaces such as bus stations and bus stops tend to be designed as generic technical fixtures. Little consideration is paid to various waiting practices, the different ways transit passengers interact with the material and social structures at the bus stop and its surrounding, and the potential of transit spaces to serve as urban public spaces. From an assemblage perspective, this study proposes to see the …
The publicness of transit spaces
Recent urban studies have increasingly recognized public transport and transit spaces as important public spaces, yet the specific nature of their publicness remains underexplored. This paper examines bus stops in Malmö, Sweden, focusing on how their function as waiting spaces intersects with their role in urban public life. Through ethnographic observations, travel diaries, and interviews, the study investigates waiting as a social activity and …
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