Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands: New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies
Autor Seb Rumsbyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 iun 2023
Following state-led market reforms in the 1980s, Vietnam experienced stunning economic transformation. But for the Hmong communities of the country’s north and central highlands, the benefits proved elusive. Instead, the Hmong people have pursued their own alternative paths to development. Rumsby shows how mass conversion to Christianity led to a case of “unplanned development” that put the Hmong on a trajectory of simultaneous integration into the market economy and resistance to state authority.
Many of the strategies community members employ are tied to the Christianization of everyday life. Religious actors play complex and often contradictory roles in facilitating networks of exchange, challenging or enforcing gender norms, promoting communalism and enforcing discipline, and shaping local ideas about progress. They are influenced by national and transnational religious networks, especially US-produced radio broadcasts by Hmong American Christians and local converts.
This compelling account provides fresh theoretical and empirical insights into the interplay of religion, neoliberal development, and marketization across the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299342302
ISBN-10: 0299342301
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 7 halftones, 2 b-w illus., 4 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies
ISBN-10: 0299342301
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 7 halftones, 2 b-w illus., 4 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies
Recenzii
“In this stimulating study, Rumsby shows how Christianity offers the Hmong in northwest Vietnam autonomous resources for engaging with state-directed modernization. Empowered by their faith, the people of this uplands minority have charted a path to development that promises prosperity and coexistence with the state on their own terms.”—Philip Taylor, Australian National University
“A compelling study that provides new theoretical and empirical insights into the interplay of religion, neoliberal development, and marketization across the nations of the world.”—Midwest Book Review
“A compelling study that provides new theoretical and empirical insights into the interplay of religion, neoliberal development, and marketization across the nations of the world.”—Midwest Book Review
Notă biografică
Seb Rumsby is lecturer of Southeast Asian politics at Queen Mary University of London. He is the co-founder of Hmongdom, a nonprofit rural development organization that facilitates the diversification of livelihood and economic resources for farmers in marginalized rural areas of Southeast Asia.
Cuprins
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Historical Context and Strange Parallels
Chapter 2. Changing Livelihoods, Precarious
Development Trajectories
Chapter 3. The Political Economy of New Christian
Elites
Chapter 4. Neoliberalism in Everyday Life
Chapter 5. Conversion and Gender Relations
Conclusion. Alternative Paths to Development?
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Historical Context and Strange Parallels
Chapter 2. Changing Livelihoods, Precarious
Development Trajectories
Chapter 3. The Political Economy of New Christian
Elites
Chapter 4. Neoliberalism in Everyday Life
Chapter 5. Conversion and Gender Relations
Conclusion. Alternative Paths to Development?
Appendix
Bibliography
Index