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Like China, Vietnam has one of the world's fastest growing economies on account of its hybridized "market socialism" that combines elements of its official socialist system with free market capitalism. This special issue examines Vietnam's current social and economic improvisations as situated in specific local and historical experiences. These essays address the complexities and multiplicities of neoliberal reform agendas, demonstrating that socialist and neoliberal regimes are neither exclusive nor distinct. Contributors draw their conclusions from ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary urban spaces. They link neoliberalism in Vietnam to a set of globally diverse technical practices, institutions, modes of power, and governing strategies; for example, in its shifting currency regimes and its anticorruption campaigns. Contributors also explore the growing emphasis on self-improvement and modernization through studies of architecture, changing beauty standards, and the impact of in vitro fertilization. Biopolitical logics and the self-regulation of moral personhood are also addressed in essays on HIV/AIDS and transnational adoption. The issue highlights the ways in which the socialist past is integral to the present in Vietnam, even as it is remade and newly configured.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political ideologies

• Full title: Neoliberalism in Vietnam
• Author: Ann Marie Leshkowich, Christina Schwenkel
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250
• EAN: 9780822367710
• ISBN: 0822367718
• ID: 04939979
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 540 g
• Dimensions: 201 × 175 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. May 2012

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