Future-making Tactics
Exploring Middle-class Living and Green Practices in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2142959 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Earl (0000-0002-7979-5453, Federation Business School, Federation University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 454-470 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00141844.2018.1541919 |
| OpenAlex | W2912432071 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 36 |
Practices of environmental sustainability in Vietnam are not new, although these may align to managing austerity and rural living. In Ho Chi Minh City, tactics deployed by middle-class professionals shaping their futures involve conscious choices about transport, manual labour, consumption, and relations with the natural world for a more sustainable city. Such choices are constrained by frictions, such as lacking capital or rejecting globalised phenomena. Drawing on sensory anthropology and new mobilities, firstly, I argue that focusing on place-specific values may overlook pervasive influences of rurality and globalisation on relations that transform urban living unevenly and unequally. Secondly, I propose that it is not simply the 'hard' built environment that offers a resource in articulation and materialisation of transitions to more sustainable and liveable urban places. The discussion reveals that middle-class desires to experience comfortable living shape tactics that, while mitigating uncertainty or demonstrating resilience, are not simply individual choices. (c) 2019, (c) 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Articulation (sociology · Austerity · Consumption (sociology · Ho chi minh · Middle class · Political science · Politics · Rural area · Rurality · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Sustainability · French Urban and Social Studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Gender practices in contemporary Vietnam
The Deepest Sense
The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities
The Time Bind
Paths toward a clearing
Distinction
Ethnography in/of the World System
Vietnam's Urgent Task
Distinction
Essential Trade
The Reinvention of Distinction
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Vietnam’s Household Registration System
Tyranny of the Moment
Rice Talks
Sensual Relations
Dealing in Desire
Friction
The Socio-Spatial Constellation of a Central Vietnamese Village and its Emigrants
The Challenges of “Re-engaging with Food“
Cultivating gender
Bringing the countryside to the city
Vietnam's New Middle Classes
Food-buying Habits in Hanoi
Education Culture, Economy, and Society
Towards a Politics of Mobility
Driving Development? The Problems and Promises of the Car in Vietnam
Culture on the Ground
On the back of a motorbike
Anthropological Takes on (Im)Mobility
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |