Traders in MotionPub Date : 2018-06-15DOI: 10.7591/CORNELL/9781501719820.003.0015
A. Derks
{"title":"Fuel Trade: People, Places, and Transformations along the Coal Briquetting Chain","authors":"A. Derks","doi":"10.7591/CORNELL/9781501719820.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/CORNELL/9781501719820.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on those who produce, distribute and use an everyday, but increasingly shunned cooking fuel, the beehive coal briquette. It looks in particular at the inter-linkages between people, things and places along the briquetting chain. By tracing the journey of the coal briquette backwards, from the stove to the trolley in which it is transported and to the production site in which it is made, the chapter illustrates how the changing uses and meanings of place and space impact dynamics and networks of small-scale commercial activities in urban Vietnam.","PeriodicalId":312832,"journal":{"name":"Traders in Motion","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116190239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Traders in MotionPub Date : 2018-06-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501719820.003.0017
Gracia C. Clark
{"title":"Afterword","authors":"Gracia C. Clark","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501719820.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501719820.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary discusses parallels between these studies of Vietnam and prominent studies of African contexts with comparable themes and methods of historical and transnational analysis. Despite dramatic contrasts with the particularities of African history and societies, traders, their customers and their regulators navigate similar material and conceptual landscapes. Shifting public policies and trading practices invoke and enact highly charged dichotomies: urban and rural identities, socialist and modernist virtues, or globalism and indigeneity. These nuanced analyses show diverse actors internalizing and also strategically manipulating and redefining alternative ideals and ideologies of gender, adulthood, kinship, parenthood, neighborhood, technology, and tradition.","PeriodicalId":312832,"journal":{"name":"Traders in Motion","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130895235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Traders in MotionPub Date : 2018-06-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501719820.003.0001
K. Endres, Ann Marie Leshkowich
{"title":"Introduction: Space, Mobility, Borders, and Trading Frictions","authors":"K. Endres, Ann Marie Leshkowich","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501719820.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501719820.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This introduction provides a theoretical overview of the main mechanisms through which a market economy emerges. The chapters in this volume offer rich ethnographic exploration of daily interactions among traders, suppliers, customers, family members, neighbors, and officials within Vietnam and across its borders. These quotidian encounters occur within contested spaces, through expanding and contracting circuits of mobility, and across physical and conceptual boundaries that are fixed, yet porous. Taken together, the diverse contributions to this collection demonstrate that markets form and transform through uneven interplay among global processes, state regulatory regimes, and local trajectories of economic and social development. Rather than impede market function, these trading frictions shape the necessary ground on which new forms of political economy emerge.","PeriodicalId":312832,"journal":{"name":"Traders in Motion","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133680363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Traders in MotionPub Date : 2018-06-15DOI: 10.7591/CORNELL/9781501719820.003.0010
N. Binh
{"title":"“Strive to Make a Living” in the Era of Urbanization and Modernization: The Story of Petty Traders in a Hanoi Peri-urban Community","authors":"N. Binh","doi":"10.7591/CORNELL/9781501719820.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/CORNELL/9781501719820.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the dynamics of petty trade in a Hanoi peri-urban community under the impact of an assemblage of recent urbanization and modernization policies. Drawing on material from fieldwork in both the village and marketplaces in Hanoi in 2014, it examines the continuity of petty trade in the livelihoods of peri-urban villagers during the process of urbanization and the new patterns they have adopted to strive for a living. The chapter argues that the recent pattern of rapid urbanization through the top-down urban integration of Hanoi city had the unintended effect of pushing people into the informal economy, while the modernization of the city has pushed their informal status to become even more vulnerable.","PeriodicalId":312832,"journal":{"name":"Traders in Motion","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131159510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Traders in MotionPub Date : 2018-06-15DOI: 10.7591/CORNELL/9781501719820.003.0014
Esther Horat
{"title":"Moralities of Commerce in a Northern Vietnamese Trading Community","authors":"Esther Horat","doi":"10.7591/CORNELL/9781501719820.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/CORNELL/9781501719820.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines small-scale entrepreneurial morality in a trading village in northern Vietnam through the lens of three local moral discourses. In particular, it attempts to understand why, in spite of thorough socioeconomic transformation, traders’ moral discourses between the 1990s and the 2010s have remained strikingly similar. Traders’ use of a moral identity is a strategic response to the ambiguous economic and political situation in which they find themselves. The creation of this moral uncertainty is an important element of state governance.","PeriodicalId":312832,"journal":{"name":"Traders in Motion","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131639323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Traders in MotionPub Date : 2018-06-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501719820.003.0003
K. Endres
{"title":"Making the Marketplace: Traders, Cadres, and Bureaucratic Documents in Lào Cai City","authors":"K. Endres","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501719820.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501719820.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Bureaucratic paperwork holds an important place in the toolbox of state rule techniques. Drawing on recent anthropological approaches to bureaucratic documentation, this chapter examines the role that the production and circulation of bureaucratic paperwork plays in actually shaping experiential and social realities in the marketplace. The cases presented show that written documents not only enable government officials to establish their positions and authority vis-à-vis their subjects, but also shape the market’s future. In contrast, ordinary people have little opportunity to insert themselves into these streams of bureaucratic paperwork through which authority is established, subjects are governed, and marketplaces are made.","PeriodicalId":312832,"journal":{"name":"Traders in Motion","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116155142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Traders in MotionPub Date : 2018-06-15DOI: 10.7591/CORNELL/9781501719820.003.0006
Gertrud Hüwelmeier
{"title":"Ghost Markets and Moving Bazaars in Hanoi’s Urban Space","authors":"Gertrud Hüwelmeier","doi":"10.7591/CORNELL/9781501719820.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/CORNELL/9781501719820.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the demolition and renewal of traditional marketplaces in urban Hanoi, each in a different stage of renovation. It focuses on female traders, hawkers, and street vendors who employ creative strategies to cope with the loss of their livelihoods. By drawing on concepts such as clientelization and beneficial relations (quan hệ) this contribution highlights some of the social relationships that traders build up over time with members of the market management, other vendors, and customers in various marketplaces.","PeriodicalId":312832,"journal":{"name":"Traders in Motion","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123944060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}