E Harms
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 23565 |
|---|---|
| NOME | E Harms |
| PRENOMES | E |
| SOBRENOME | Harms |
| ASSINATURA | HARMS E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4277-1490 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 242 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1937 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Twisted Civility
The literature on civility navigates the gravitational pulls of binary camps: civility sceptics tend to emphasize how it operates as an instrument of power; civility optimists tend to emphasize its emancipatory potentials. While some scholarship has attempted to reconcile these perspectives by showing how civility can be both negative and positive, such theorization tends to describe this relation in terms of ambivalence. While these approaches r…
Spaces of Social Capital across Pandemic Time
Morphological distinctions between Ho Chi Minh City’s low-rise and high-rise residential neighborhoods make it possible to compare how residents in spatially different neighborhoods responded to the city’s strict lockdown measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article combines spatial analysis of COVID-19 cases with qualitative interviews conducted in different neighborhoods over the course of the pandemic to highlight observable patterns ac…
Is subversion just another version of state aversion? Notes on Herzfeld’s Subversive archaism
Who is a neighbourhood? Studying a thing that isn't a thing in Southeast Asia
There is no such thing as a neighbourhood. But neighbourhoods are everywhere. Neighbourhoods are regularly described as things, but we cannot touch them. We typically understand neighbourhoods as places, but we can neither see them nor find their edges. The more one stares at a neighbourhood, the more it seems impossible to see it. Nevertheless, there is something—an often intangible and indescribably social something—compelling us not only to im…
Land Fictions
Antennas Up! Laura Nader’s Undergraduate Lecture Courses as Public Anthropology
While teaching lecture courses at the University of California, Berkeley, Laura Nader taught generations of students to raise their anthropological antennae. This article uses an autoethnographic approach to describe the author’s exposure to anthropology at Berkeley in the nineteen-nineties, gesturing towards the way undergraduate lecture courses play an important but largely underrecognized role in fostering public anthropology. Nader’s lecture …
Narrative Debates
Violent neoliberalism
Violent neoliberalism is a passionately written collection of mostly previously published and now revised essays exploring the dark underbelly of global capitalism, with an empirical focus on the d
The Khmer Lands of Vietnam
Luxury and Rubble
Modern Views, Unblocked
When describing Phú Mỹ Hưng, an upscale master-planned residential and commercial development located on the peri-urban fringe of Ho Chi Minh City, residents typically emphasize the light, the air, and the openness. They often comment on how modern it is and describe how it offers a new way of seeing the urban landscape—it offers a “modern view.” The view residents describe is modern because it is unblocked, has depth of field, and allows people …
Urban Space and Exclusion in Asia
The much-vaunted growth of cities across Asia has been accompanied by new forms of urban exclusion. This article reviews recent research into urban space and exclusion in Asia, focusing on anthropology as well as on key works in cognate fields such as geography, political science, sociology, and urban studies. The review of the literature suggests that spatial exclusions in Asian cities are perpetuated by numerous different modes, some overt and …
Porous Enclaves
Cities across Asia are increasingly dotted with large, upmarket, seemingly homogeneous and avowedly exclusive master-planned, mixed-use housing and commercial developments. From an outsider's perspective, these projects appear starkly uniform and to have been imposed on urban landscapes with little attempt to integrate them into local social, cultural and economic contexts. Recent research in South East Asia, however, shows how these developments…
Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010
Introduction 1 The Early Urban Transition (1920-40) 2 Uneven Socialist Revolutions (1940-65) 3 Eating by Points and Coupons Is Not Enough (1965-80) 4 The New Urban Territorial Order (1980-2010) 5 Land for Fresh Ghosts, Land for Dry Ghosts Conclusion Notes References Statutes Cited Index
Wastelands, degraded lands and forests, and the class(ification) struggle
Knowing into oblivion
Lands cleared for V ietnamese N ew U rban Z ones are commonly described as ‘wastelands’ ( đất hoang ) in need of development. But clearing these lands in V ietnam's densely populated urban areas requires evicting large numbers of urban residents. How is it possible to render populated spaces as empty wastelands? This paper juxtaposes new ethnographic research in H o C hi M inh C ity against historical scholarship on V ietnamese concepts of ‘clear…
Civility’s Footprint
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Remote and edgy
Eight anthropologists working in various parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America reflect on an essay by Edwin Ardener on the concept of remote areas recently reprinted in Hau(Volume 2, Issue 1). These reflections all show that the idea of the remote can be detached from its geographical moorings and understood not simply as a spatial concept but as a relativistic social construct. Considered in conjunction with the notion of edginess, they under…
Global Movements, Local Concerns
Eviction Time in the New Saigon
This article describes the temporality of eviction in a rubble-strewn site of urban demolition in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), where over 14,000 households are being evicted to create an ambitious "new urban zone." Eviction thrusts many residents into an alternative time-world of enforced waiting, marked by an oppressive sense of being suspended in time. For some residents, however, an alternative temporality marked by indifference and disintereste…
Introduction to Special Issue
Neo-Geomancy and Real Estate Fever in Postreform Vietnam
This article situates localized Vietnamese practices of geomancy within the broader history of land-use right reforms in the postreform era. On the immediate level, geomancy appears to represent individualized attempts to reconstruct private homes and cultivate personal landscapes—a seemingly bottom-up phenomenon. Situating these seemingly individualized practices within the larger social, political, legal, and economic landscape, however, shows …
Beauty as control in the new Saigon
The eviction of residents to make way for a "new urban zone" in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is legitimized by notions of building a beautiful, breathable, and orderly city. Although angry about their unfair treatment in the eviction process, residents ultimately support this discourse of beauty. They challenge eviction through individual squabbles over compensation rates, land measurements, and resettlement sites. In the process, dissent becomes a…
Saigon's Edge
Much of the world’s population inhabits the urban fringe, an area that is neither fully rural nor urban. Hóc Môn, a district that lies along a key transport corridor on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, epitomizes one of those places. This book explores life in Hóc Môn, putting forth a revealing perspective on how rapid urbanization impacts the people who live at the intersection of rural and urban worlds. Unlike the idealized Vietnames…
Sounding Out Heritage
Eviction Time in the New Saigon
This article describes the temporality of eviction in a rubble-strewn site of urban demolition in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), where over 14,000 households are being evicted to create an ambitious "new urban zone." Eviction thrusts many residents into an alternative time-world of enforced waiting, marked by an oppressive sense of being suspended in time. For some residents, however, an alternative temporality marked by indifference and disintereste…
Beauty as control in the new Saigon
The eviction of residents to make way for a "new urban zone" in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is legitimized by notions of building a beautiful, breathable, and orderly city. Although angry about their unfair treatment in the eviction process, residents ultimately support this discourse of beauty. They challenge eviction through individual squabbles over compensation rates, land measurements, and resettlement sites. In the process, dissent becomes a…
Remote and edgy
Eight anthropologists working in various parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America reflect on an essay by Edwin Ardener on the concept of remote areas recently reprinted in Hau(Volume 2, Issue 1). These reflections all show that the idea of the remote can be detached from its geographical moorings and understood not simply as a spatial concept but as a relativistic social construct. Considered in conjunction with the notion of edginess, they under…
Urban Space and Exclusion in Asia
The much-vaunted growth of cities across Asia has been accompanied by new forms of urban exclusion. This article reviews recent research into urban space and exclusion in Asia, focusing on anthropology as well as on key works in cognate fields such as geography, political science, sociology, and urban studies. The review of the literature suggests that spatial exclusions in Asian cities are perpetuated by numerous different modes, some overt and …
Introduction to Special Issue
Civility’s Footprint
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Porous Enclaves
Cities across Asia are increasingly dotted with large, upmarket, seemingly homogeneous and avowedly exclusive master-planned, mixed-use housing and commercial developments. From an outsider's perspective, these projects appear starkly uniform and to have been imposed on urban landscapes with little attempt to integrate them into local social, cultural and economic contexts. Recent research in South East Asia, however, shows how these developments…
Neo-Geomancy and Real Estate Fever in Postreform Vietnam
This article situates localized Vietnamese practices of geomancy within the broader history of land-use right reforms in the postreform era. On the immediate level, geomancy appears to represent individualized attempts to reconstruct private homes and cultivate personal landscapes—a seemingly bottom-up phenomenon. Situating these seemingly individualized practices within the larger social, political, legal, and economic landscape, however, shows …
Material Symbolism on Saigon's Edge
Who is a neighbourhood? Studying a thing that isn't a thing in Southeast Asia
There is no such thing as a neighbourhood. But neighbourhoods are everywhere. Neighbourhoods are regularly described as things, but we cannot touch them. We typically understand neighbourhoods as places, but we can neither see them nor find their edges. The more one stares at a neighbourhood, the more it seems impossible to see it. Nevertheless, there is something—an often intangible and indescribably social something—compelling us not only to im…
Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010
Introduction 1 The Early Urban Transition (1920-40) 2 Uneven Socialist Revolutions (1940-65) 3 Eating by Points and Coupons Is Not Enough (1965-80) 4 The New Urban Territorial Order (1980-2010) 5 Land for Fresh Ghosts, Land for Dry Ghosts Conclusion Notes References Statutes Cited Index
The Critical Difference
This discussion of contributions to this special volume on Vietnam's Northwest assesses the importance of an outsider's view in Vietnamese Studies, arguing that such a view helps challenge assumptions about Vietnamese Studies. However, the discussion also cautions that the tendency to view the Northwest as "outside" itself needs to be questioned. Building from the analytic power of the outsider's view while challenging the assumptions upon which …
The Rural Consciousness
Journal Article The Rural Consciousness Get access Ernst Harms Ernst Harms New York City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 19, Issue 1, October 1940, Pages 29–40, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570837 Published: 01 October 1940
Paranoid tendencies in social behavior
Rural Attitudes in Modern Urban Life
Journal Article Rural Attitudes in Modern Urban Life Get access Ernst Harms Ernst Harms United States Department of Agriculture Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 17, Issue 4, May 1939, Pages 486–489, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570698 Published: 01 May 1939
The Rural Consciousness
Journal Article The Rural Consciousness Get access Ernst Harms Ernst Harms New York City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 19, Issue 1, October 1940, Pages 29–40, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570837 Published: 01 October 1940
The development of humor
The Ironies of Freedom
Saigon's Edge
Much of the world’s population inhabits the urban fringe, an area that is neither fully rural nor urban. Hóc Môn, a district that lies along a key transport corridor on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, epitomizes one of those places. This book explores life in Hóc Môn, putting forth a revealing perspective on how rapid urbanization impacts the people who live at the intersection of rural and urban worlds. Unlike the idealized Vietnames…
The Critical Difference
This discussion of contributions to this special volume on Vietnam's Northwest assesses the importance of an outsider's view in Vietnamese Studies, arguing that such a view helps challenge assumptions about Vietnamese Studies. However, the discussion also cautions that the tendency to view the Northwest as "outside" itself needs to be questioned. Building from the analytic power of the outsider's view while challenging the assumptions upon which …
Material Symbolism on Saigon's Edge
Neo-Geomancy and Real Estate Fever in Postreform Vietnam
This article situates localized Vietnamese practices of geomancy within the broader history of land-use right reforms in the postreform era. On the immediate level, geomancy appears to represent individualized attempts to reconstruct private homes and cultivate personal landscapes—a seemingly bottom-up phenomenon. Situating these seemingly individualized practices within the larger social, political, legal, and economic landscape, however, shows …
Beauty as control in the new Saigon
The eviction of residents to make way for a "new urban zone" in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is legitimized by notions of building a beautiful, breathable, and orderly city. Although angry about their unfair treatment in the eviction process, residents ultimately support this discourse of beauty. They challenge eviction through individual squabbles over compensation rates, land measurements, and resettlement sites. In the process, dissent becomes a…
Global Movements, Local Concerns
Eviction Time in the New Saigon
This article describes the temporality of eviction in a rubble-strewn site of urban demolition in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), where over 14,000 households are being evicted to create an ambitious "new urban zone." Eviction thrusts many residents into an alternative time-world of enforced waiting, marked by an oppressive sense of being suspended in time. For some residents, however, an alternative temporality marked by indifference and disintereste…
Introduction to Special Issue
Wastelands, degraded lands and forests, and the class(ification) struggle
Knowing into oblivion
Lands cleared for V ietnamese N ew U rban Z ones are commonly described as ‘wastelands’ ( đất hoang ) in need of development. But clearing these lands in V ietnam's densely populated urban areas requires evicting large numbers of urban residents. How is it possible to render populated spaces as empty wastelands? This paper juxtaposes new ethnographic research in H o C hi M inh C ity against historical scholarship on V ietnamese concepts of ‘clear…
Civility’s Footprint
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Remote and edgy
Eight anthropologists working in various parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America reflect on an essay by Edwin Ardener on the concept of remote areas recently reprinted in Hau(Volume 2, Issue 1). These reflections all show that the idea of the remote can be detached from its geographical moorings and understood not simply as a spatial concept but as a relativistic social construct. Considered in conjunction with the notion of edginess, they under…
Porous Enclaves
Cities across Asia are increasingly dotted with large, upmarket, seemingly homogeneous and avowedly exclusive master-planned, mixed-use housing and commercial developments. From an outsider's perspective, these projects appear starkly uniform and to have been imposed on urban landscapes with little attempt to integrate them into local social, cultural and economic contexts. Recent research in South East Asia, however, shows how these developments…
Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010
Introduction 1 The Early Urban Transition (1920-40) 2 Uneven Socialist Revolutions (1940-65) 3 Eating by Points and Coupons Is Not Enough (1965-80) 4 The New Urban Territorial Order (1980-2010) 5 Land for Fresh Ghosts, Land for Dry Ghosts Conclusion Notes References Statutes Cited Index
The Khmer Lands of Vietnam
Luxury and Rubble
Modern Views, Unblocked
When describing Phú Mỹ Hưng, an upscale master-planned residential and commercial development located on the peri-urban fringe of Ho Chi Minh City, residents typically emphasize the light, the air, and the openness. They often comment on how modern it is and describe how it offers a new way of seeing the urban landscape—it offers a “modern view.” The view residents describe is modern because it is unblocked, has depth of field, and allows people …
Urban Space and Exclusion in Asia
The much-vaunted growth of cities across Asia has been accompanied by new forms of urban exclusion. This article reviews recent research into urban space and exclusion in Asia, focusing on anthropology as well as on key works in cognate fields such as geography, political science, sociology, and urban studies. The review of the literature suggests that spatial exclusions in Asian cities are perpetuated by numerous different modes, some overt and …
Violent neoliberalism
Violent neoliberalism is a passionately written collection of mostly previously published and now revised essays exploring the dark underbelly of global capitalism, with an empirical focus on the d
Land Fictions
Sociology (22 obras) · Political science (20 obras) · Law (19 obras) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (16 obras) · Politics (15 obras) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (15 obras) · Geography (12 obras) · Law (12 obras) · History (11 obras) · Archaeology (9 obras)