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UID:euroseas-2024-under-the-surface-tracing-infrastructural-transformations-and-violence-in-northern-vietnam-s-uplands
SUMMARY:Beyond the surface: Tracing infrastructural transformations and violence in northern Vietnam’s uplands
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DESCRIPTION:This panel explores a series of infrastructural dynamics in the
  northern uplands of Vietnam, informed by recent conceptual debates and ext
 ensive ethnographic fieldwork. Challenging prevailing notions of infrastruc
 ture as neutral and apolitical, scholars have highlighted its inherently so
 cial nature (Ferguson, 2012; Lemanski, 2018; Amin, 2014). Such research she
 ds light on the intricate ways in which infrastructure, whether visible or 
 concealed, permeates every aspect of society (Larkin, 2013; Rippa et al., 2
 020). In upland northern Vietnam, ethnic minority communities negotiate how
  infrastructure can  introduce new economic, social, and mobile capacities,
  while simultaneously exacerbating social and economic vulnerabilities (Ghe
 rtner, 2015; Schindler, 2014). \n\nIn contrast to studies on the impacts of
  conspicuous, large-scale rural infrastructure projects, this panel focuses
  on less-documented projects. Specifically, attention is directed towards h
 ow ethnic minority individuals and communities build infrastructural lives 
 and create or reinvent livelihoods in northern upland Vietnam, when negotia
 ting different state-sponsored or endorsed infrastructural projects. Our ca
 se studies include: the cultural and economic impacts of the increasing use
  of concrete in housing construction including impacts on household reprodu
 ctive norms and values; the slow violence and everyday politics negotiated 
 by local communities dealing with small hydropower projects; the socio-econ
 omic, cultural, and environmental repercussions of introduced methods of fi
 sh farming and related aquaculture Infrastructure; and the ongoing challeng
 es for ethnic minority traders navigating inconsistent rules and enforcemen
 t with regards to marketplace upgrading.\n\nThrough such case studies, this
  exploration of infrastructural lives in various forms offers comparisons a
 cross time and space within these uplands to illuminate the on-the-ground n
 egotiations and impacts of diverse infrastructural elements and related sta
 keholders.
URL:https://euroseas2024.org/panels/under-the-surface-tracing-infrastructural-transformations-and-violence-in-northern-vietnam-s-uplands
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