- Title
- Future-making tactics : exploring middle-class living and green practices in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Creator
- Earl, Catherine
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/174329
- Identifier
- vital:14818
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1541919
- Identifier
- ISBN:0014-1844 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Practices of environmental sustainability in Vietnam are not new, although these may align to managing austerity and rural living. In Ho Chi Minh City, tactics deployed by middle-class professionals shaping their futures involve conscious choices about transport, manual labour, consumption, and relations with the natural world for a more sustainable city. Such choices are constrained by frictions, such as lacking capital or rejecting globalised phenomena. Drawing on sensory anthropology and new mobilities, firstly, I argue that focusing on place-specific values may overlook pervasive influences of rurality and globalisation on relations that transform urban living unevenly and unequally. Secondly, I propose that it is not simply the ‘hard’ built environment that offers a resource in articulation and materialisation of transitions to more sustainable and liveable urban places. The discussion reveals that middle-class desires to experience comfortable living shape tactics that, while mitigating uncertainty or demonstrating resilience, are not simply individual choices. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Ethnos Vol. 85, no. 3 (2020), p. 454-470
- Rights
- Metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Copyright © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Subject
- 1601 Anthropology; Middle classes; sensory anthropology; sustainability; urban development; Vietnam
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