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Competing legacies: rupture and continuity in Vietnamese political economy / Sasges, Gerard; Cheshier, Scott

Sasges, Gerard	Journal Article
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2012.

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Vietnam today is less in a process of transition from 'plan' to 'market' than in a process of state consolidation with clear parallels in the colonial period. The authors focus on four aspects of Vietnamese political economy under the colonial and post-colonial regimes: the interpenetration of state and enterprise through state-created monopolies; the interaction of regional and ethnic dynamics with the monopolies; the 'illegal' activities (smuggling, 'fence-breaking', etc) that accompanied the monopolies; and the way monopolies have served as bases for rampant diversification into speculative ventures. The parallels across the eras call into question conventional notions of rupture, and confirm the importance of structural constraints that continue to shape Vietnam's political economy.

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Colonialism ; Vietnam - History ; Transition ; Historical Continuity ; Rupture ; State - Related Accumulation

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Raptures and ruptures of mobility / Amit, Vered

Amit, Vered	Journal Article
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2012.

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This article examines the ways in which the trope of rupture has progressively figured in my studies of diverse forms of mobility. Ironically, this has occurred at the same time as an increasing orientation within migration studies towards transnational links has given a strong emphasis on continuity. I argue that this kind of methodological transnationalism does not give enough attention either to the disjunctures that are routinely involved in mobility or to the possibility that rupture might be an actively desired goal for moving either temporarily or for the longer term.

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Consultants ; Expatriates ; Rupture ; Methodological Transnationalism ; Youth Travellers

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