{"product_id":"traders-in-motion-9781501719820","title":"Traders in Motion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic and political anthropology, geography, and sociology to illuminate how Vietnam''s rapidly expanding market economy is formed and transformed by everyday interactions among traders, suppliers, customers, family members, neighbors, and officials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributions shed light on the micropolitics of local-level economic agency in the paradoxical context of Vietnam''s socialist orientation and its contemporary neoliberal economic and social transformation. The essays examine how Vietnamese traders and officials engage in on-the-ground contestations to define space, promote or limit mobility, and establish borders, both physical and conceptual. The contributors show how trading experiences shape individuals'' notions of self and personhood, not just as economic actors, but also in terms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edited volumen successfully presents its arguments and analyses with clear contextualization aand well-organized theoretical frameworks... I highly reccomend this book\u003c\/p\u003e * Sojourn *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInarguably an exceptional collection on Vietnam's contemporary political economy, the book provides a comprehensive and critical update of how post socialism and neo- liberalism interplay (and clash) in Vietnam, and how powerful macrostructures and ideologies shape, and in return, become shaped by grassroots actors through their everyday practices.\u003c\/p\u003e * Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409329660247,"sku":"9781501719820","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501719820.jpg?v=1730506441","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/traders-in-motion-9781501719820","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}