Phuc Xuan To
Biographic Data
| ID | 85559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phuc Xuan To |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phuc Xuan |
| FAMILY NAME | To |
| SIGNATURE | TO P X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3597-4193 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Disaster, Societal Responses, and State Legitimacy in Crisis in Vietnam
This article examines the role of celebrity activism in post-disaster politics in the context of state authoritarianism in Vietnam. In late 2020, a chain of violent tropical storms hit Vietnam's central highland region – host to hundreds of hydropower dams – triggering severe landslides and floods that devastated human lives and local livelihoods. Drawing on data gathered through social media, online platforms, and interviews with non-governmenta…
Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply
In our article, ‘Rupture: Towards a Critical, Emplaced, and Experiential View of Nature-Society Crisis’, we advocated for contextually rich and critical understandings of environmental crises and their catalytic effects. This authors’ reply responds to four commentaries whose authors raise helpful questions and insights. We first review the spatial and temporal connections between specific rupture episodes and ongoing processes of extraction and …
Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis
We are currently seeing a global escalation in social and environmental disruption, yet concepts like the Anthropocene do not fully capture the intensity and generative scope of this crisis. ‘Rupture’ is being used as a term for specific and intense episodes of change, such as wildfires or toxic pollution releases. This is a useful addition to our lexicon for nature-society change but needs to be more robustly theorized. Defining rupture as an in…
Learning From 'Actually Existing' Redd: A Synthesis of Ethnographic Findings
The 2015 United Nations Paris Agreement on Climate reinforces actions to conserve and enhance forests as carbon reservoirs. A decade after sub-national demonstration projects to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) commenced, we examine why many REDD+ schemes appear to have fuelled social conflict while having limited success in addressing the drivers of forest loss and degradation. Our analysis is two-tiered: first …
Rethinking ‘Success’: The politics of payment for forest ecosystem services in Vietnam
Vietnam's cross-border timber crackdown and the quest for state legitimacy
The transboundary displacement of deforestation under Redd: Problematic intersections between the trade of forest-risk commodities and land grabbing in the Mekong region
Redd+ for Red Books? Negotiating rights to land and livelihoods through carbon governance in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
Moral economies and markets: ‘Insider’ cassava trading in Kon Tum, Vietnam
Vietnam's uplands have been increasingly integrated into commodity production for global markets. This paper focuses on the role of the cassava trader in connecting upland villagers as cassava producers to an emerging global cassava market. In Vietnam's Central Highlands, ethnic minority villagers engaging in a mixed economy of subsistence and cash crop production still practice communal resource use and reciprocal labour arrangements – customs a…
A Systems Thinking Approach for Achieving a Better Understanding of Swidden Cultivation in Vietnam
A new landlord’ (địa chủ mới)? Community, land conflict and State Forest Companies (SFCs) in Vietnam
Social Networks of Corruption in the Vietnamese and Lao Cross-Border Timber Trade
Although corruption is a core issue in discourses on Southeast Asian states and the region's illegal timber trade, its specific meanings, characteristics, and role are poorly understood. Our ethnographic study of corruption and timber trade in the lower Mekong uncovers the relationships, dealings, and networks that enable illegal timber flows. We follow the disputed case of a shipment of high-value timber that originated in Laos and was seized by…
How Biodiversity Conservation Policy Accelerates Agrarian Differentiation: The Account of an Upland Village in Vietnam
This paper shows how the implementation of Vietnam's recent biodiversity conservation policy in Ba Vi National Park has increased the economic value of nature, created sustained conflict, and exacerbated agrarian differentiation in an upland village in northern Vietnam. Increased global and national interest in biodiversity conservation has intersected with markets for ecosystem services that attempt to commoditise biodiversity resources in Ba Vi…
The Prospects for Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Vietnam: A Look at Three Payment Schemes
Global conservation discourses and practices increasingly rely on market-based solutions to fulfill the dual objective of forest conservation and economic development. Although varied, these interventions are premised on the assumption that natural resources are most effectively managed and preserved while benefiting livelihoods if the market-incentives of a liberalised economy are correctly in place. By examining three nationally supported payme…
Illegal Logging in Vietnam: Lam Tac (Forest Hijackers) in Practice and Talk
This article examines the political economy of illegal logging through a case study from Vietnam. The study examines the extraction and trade of a particular timber species through commodity-chain analysis and looks at national-level debates about illegal logging, corruption, and the state. Its findings suggest that central government concerns over authority and public discussions about corruption informed the criminalization of much logging. Cri…
The Prospects for Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Vietnam: A Look at Three Payment Schemes
Global conservation discourses and practices increasingly rely on market-based solutions to fulfill the dual objective of forest conservation and economic development. Although varied, these interventions are premised on the assumption that natural resources are most effectively managed and preserved while benefiting livelihoods if the market-incentives of a liberalised economy are correctly in place. By examining three nationally supported payme…
Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis
We are currently seeing a global escalation in social and environmental disruption, yet concepts like the Anthropocene do not fully capture the intensity and generative scope of this crisis. ‘Rupture’ is being used as a term for specific and intense episodes of change, such as wildfires or toxic pollution releases. This is a useful addition to our lexicon for nature-society change but needs to be more robustly theorized. Defining rupture as an in…
Illegal Logging in Vietnam: Lam Tac (Forest Hijackers) in Practice and Talk
This article examines the political economy of illegal logging through a case study from Vietnam. The study examines the extraction and trade of a particular timber species through commodity-chain analysis and looks at national-level debates about illegal logging, corruption, and the state. Its findings suggest that central government concerns over authority and public discussions about corruption informed the criminalization of much logging. Cri…
The transboundary displacement of deforestation under Redd: Problematic intersections between the trade of forest-risk commodities and land grabbing in the Mekong region
Vietnam's cross-border timber crackdown and the quest for state legitimacy
Redd+ for Red Books? Negotiating rights to land and livelihoods through carbon governance in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
Social Networks of Corruption in the Vietnamese and Lao Cross-Border Timber Trade
Although corruption is a core issue in discourses on Southeast Asian states and the region's illegal timber trade, its specific meanings, characteristics, and role are poorly understood. Our ethnographic study of corruption and timber trade in the lower Mekong uncovers the relationships, dealings, and networks that enable illegal timber flows. We follow the disputed case of a shipment of high-value timber that originated in Laos and was seized by…
A new landlord’ (địa chủ mới)? Community, land conflict and State Forest Companies (SFCs) in Vietnam
Moral economies and markets: ‘Insider’ cassava trading in Kon Tum, Vietnam
Vietnam's uplands have been increasingly integrated into commodity production for global markets. This paper focuses on the role of the cassava trader in connecting upland villagers as cassava producers to an emerging global cassava market. In Vietnam's Central Highlands, ethnic minority villagers engaging in a mixed economy of subsistence and cash crop production still practice communal resource use and reciprocal labour arrangements – customs a…
A Systems Thinking Approach for Achieving a Better Understanding of Swidden Cultivation in Vietnam
Rethinking ‘Success’: The politics of payment for forest ecosystem services in Vietnam
Illegal Logging in Vietnam: Lam Tac (Forest Hijackers) in Practice and Talk
This article examines the political economy of illegal logging through a case study from Vietnam. The study examines the extraction and trade of a particular timber species through commodity-chain analysis and looks at national-level debates about illegal logging, corruption, and the state. Its findings suggest that central government concerns over authority and public discussions about corruption informed the criminalization of much logging. Cri…
The Prospects for Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Vietnam: A Look at Three Payment Schemes
Global conservation discourses and practices increasingly rely on market-based solutions to fulfill the dual objective of forest conservation and economic development. Although varied, these interventions are premised on the assumption that natural resources are most effectively managed and preserved while benefiting livelihoods if the market-incentives of a liberalised economy are correctly in place. By examining three nationally supported payme…
How Biodiversity Conservation Policy Accelerates Agrarian Differentiation: The Account of an Upland Village in Vietnam
This paper shows how the implementation of Vietnam's recent biodiversity conservation policy in Ba Vi National Park has increased the economic value of nature, created sustained conflict, and exacerbated agrarian differentiation in an upland village in northern Vietnam. Increased global and national interest in biodiversity conservation has intersected with markets for ecosystem services that attempt to commoditise biodiversity resources in Ba Vi…
A new landlord’ (địa chủ mới)? Community, land conflict and State Forest Companies (SFCs) in Vietnam
Social Networks of Corruption in the Vietnamese and Lao Cross-Border Timber Trade
Although corruption is a core issue in discourses on Southeast Asian states and the region's illegal timber trade, its specific meanings, characteristics, and role are poorly understood. Our ethnographic study of corruption and timber trade in the lower Mekong uncovers the relationships, dealings, and networks that enable illegal timber flows. We follow the disputed case of a shipment of high-value timber that originated in Laos and was seized by…
A Systems Thinking Approach for Achieving a Better Understanding of Swidden Cultivation in Vietnam
Moral economies and markets: ‘Insider’ cassava trading in Kon Tum, Vietnam
Vietnam's uplands have been increasingly integrated into commodity production for global markets. This paper focuses on the role of the cassava trader in connecting upland villagers as cassava producers to an emerging global cassava market. In Vietnam's Central Highlands, ethnic minority villagers engaging in a mixed economy of subsistence and cash crop production still practice communal resource use and reciprocal labour arrangements – customs a…
Redd+ for Red Books? Negotiating rights to land and livelihoods through carbon governance in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
The transboundary displacement of deforestation under Redd: Problematic intersections between the trade of forest-risk commodities and land grabbing in the Mekong region
Learning From 'Actually Existing' Redd: A Synthesis of Ethnographic Findings
The 2015 United Nations Paris Agreement on Climate reinforces actions to conserve and enhance forests as carbon reservoirs. A decade after sub-national demonstration projects to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) commenced, we examine why many REDD+ schemes appear to have fuelled social conflict while having limited success in addressing the drivers of forest loss and degradation. Our analysis is two-tiered: first …
Rethinking ‘Success’: The politics of payment for forest ecosystem services in Vietnam
Vietnam's cross-border timber crackdown and the quest for state legitimacy
Clarifying rupture: An authors’ reply
In our article, ‘Rupture: Towards a Critical, Emplaced, and Experiential View of Nature-Society Crisis’, we advocated for contextually rich and critical understandings of environmental crises and their catalytic effects. This authors’ reply responds to four commentaries whose authors raise helpful questions and insights. We first review the spatial and temporal connections between specific rupture episodes and ongoing processes of extraction and …
Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis
We are currently seeing a global escalation in social and environmental disruption, yet concepts like the Anthropocene do not fully capture the intensity and generative scope of this crisis. ‘Rupture’ is being used as a term for specific and intense episodes of change, such as wildfires or toxic pollution releases. This is a useful addition to our lexicon for nature-society change but needs to be more robustly theorized. Defining rupture as an in…
Disaster, Societal Responses, and State Legitimacy in Crisis in Vietnam
This article examines the role of celebrity activism in post-disaster politics in the context of state authoritarianism in Vietnam. In late 2020, a chain of violent tropical storms hit Vietnam's central highland region – host to hundreds of hydropower dams – triggering severe landslides and floods that devastated human lives and local livelihoods. Drawing on data gathered through social media, online platforms, and interviews with non-governmenta…
Geography (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Cambodian History and Society (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Livelihood (7 works)