Infrastructure Meets Infrapolitics
Emic Negotiation of State and Market Inputs in Upland Northern Vietnam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2175182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Michaud (0000-0002-3304-1613), Simon Bilodeau (0000-0003-0667-2732) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 129-151 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canberra Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14442213.2024.2331690 |
| OpenAlex | W4394771615 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 53 |
In the northern uplands of Vietnam, the socialist state is building infrastructures of many kinds to harness the once-remote peoples living there to the nation’s economic, political, and cultural core. As embodiments of uneven power forces, these new infrastructures have major impacts on local livelihoods and have triggered an array of responses to the modernist design of the state. This study examines how the Hmong, a kinship-based ethnic group of the Southeast Asian Massif, use, cope with, adjust to, and contest these infrastructures and related changes. In an emic perspective, we offer an ethnographic account of social change of a marginal people at the crossroad of infrastructures and infrapolitics
Agriculture · Archaeology · CONTEST · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Emic and etic · Ethnic group · Geography · Kinship · Livelihood · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Typology · Anthropology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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Infrastructures and Social Complexity
The Art of Not Being Governed
Civilizing the margins
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Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Scenic Spots
Tourism and development
Materialising Oceania
Centralised–decentralisation
‘The nice culture and the good behaviour’ state media and ethnic minorities in Lào Cai province, Vietnam
The anthropology of infrastructure
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
French Military Ethnography in Colonial Upper Tonkin (Northern Vietnam), 1897–1904
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The Belt and Road as method
The Sa Pa marketplace, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam
Reaching new heights. State legibility in Sa Pa, a Vietnam hill station
Contending visions of a hill-station in vietnam
Yielding to high yields? Critiquing food security definitions and policy implications for ethnic minority livelihoods in upland Vietnam
At what price rice? Food security, livelihood vulnerability, and state interventions in upland northern Vietnam
Slow forms of infrastructural violence
Frontier Livelihoods
Imperial Bandits
Handling mountain minorities in China, Vietnam and Laos
Roads that Separate
Roads and Anthropology
The Enchantments of Infrastructure
Whose Modernity? Indigenous Modernities and Land Claims after Apartheid
State Livelihood Planning and Legibility in Vietnam's Northern Borderlands
In the shadows of power
Modernization Theory Never Dies
The Montagnards and the State in Northern Vietnam from 1802 to 1975
Road Mythographies
Structures of responsibility
Infrastructural violence
Alternative Modernities
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
What's (written) history for
The Art of Not Being Scripted So Much
Remaking markets in the mountains
Hmong infrapolitics
Infrastructural Hope
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |