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Saigon's Edge
Erik Harms (Anthropologist)
其他書名
On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City
出版
University of Minnesota Press
, 2010
ISBN
1452946248
9781452946245
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OlK4tAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Much of the world's population inhabits the urban fringe, an area that is neither fully rural nor urban. Hoc Mon, a district that lies along a key transport corridor on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, epitomizes one of those places. In "Saigon's Edge," Erik Harms explores life in Hoc Mon, putting forth a revealing perspective on how rapid urbanization impacts the people who live at the intersection of rural and urban worlds. Unlike the idealized Vietnamese model of urban space, Hoc Mon is between worlds, neither outside nor inside but always uncomfortably both. With particular att.