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Research on the Attractiveness of Informal Public Spaces for the Youth of Hanoi Towards a Livable Ci[...]

Hanoi

Multiple Authors

This article examines the role and appeal of informal public spaces for young people in Vietnamese urban life. In Vietnam, public spaces are officially defined as squares, parks and flower gardens. The number of such public spaces is very limited in most Vietnamese cities, especially Hanoi. However, in addition to the regulated public spaces mentioned […]

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2021 / Scientific articles and chapters

Poster “An anthropologist in the street. The challenges of urban youth research”.

Mexico

Lorena Emilia Paredes González

Poster “An anthropologist in the street. The challenges of urban youth research”. Urban metamorphoses: a retrospective of an urban laboratory, , Université de Montréal

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2023 / Teaching materials

Informal motorbike taxi drivers and mobility injustice on Hanoi’s streets. Negotiating the curve of [...]

Hanoi

Sarah Turner

The central government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Hanoi’s municipal authorities are enthusiastically embracing a series of plans and policies for the capital city to create a sustainable mega-city. This state imaginary privileges ‘modern’ mobilities, championing highways, a bus rapid transport system, and an elevated metro, while so called ‘traditional’ means of moving […]

EN

2020 / Scientific articles and chapters

Contesting socialist state visions for modern mobilities: Informal motorbike taxi drivers’ struggles[...]

Hanoi

Multiple Authors

As the Vietnamese socialist state privileges ‘modern’ mobilities over so-called ‘traditional’ means, the livelihoods of informal motorbike taxi drivers (locally known as xe ôm) are increasingly under threat. Drawing on the literatures of mobilities and everyday politics, and on ethnographic fieldwork with xe ôm drivers, recent app-based competitors and planners in Vietnam’s capital city, Hanoi, […]

EN

2018 / Scientific articles and chapters

Creative Hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam: Will Community Visions and State Aspirations Consolidate or Collide?

Hanoi

Multiple Authors

Vietnam’s capital city has recently witnessed the emergence of a new type of cultural space akin to what have been labelled creative hubs in other contexts: that is, locales that foster creation, collaboration, community engagement and business development in the cultural sector. During the 2010s, Hanoi saw a proliferation of small-scale, art-oriented creative hubs, most […]

EN

2022 / Scientific articles and chapters

Hanoi’s street vendors on the move: Itinerant vending tactics and mobile methods in the Socialist Re[...]

Hanoi

Multiple Authors

In this chapter, we aim to analyze the mobility tactics that itinerant street vendors in Hanoi draw upon to access potential customers and evade prosecution by authorities. While doing so, we highlight how vendors’ knowledge of the city and access to customers is “constructed in and through mobile interactivity” (Brown and Durrheim, 2009: 916). We […]

EN

2022 / Scientific articles and chapters

Youth Perspectives: Navigating and Negotiating Top-Down Urban Change in Hanoi, Vietnam

Hanoi

Madeleine Hykes

Since the introduction of the Đổi Mới reforms in 1986, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has undergone a series of major shifts across social, political, and economic spheres. Today, top-down actors, such as the one-party state and private firms, are shaping the capital city of Hanoi to fit with ideals of a ‘modern’ and ‘global’ […]

EN

2018 / Thesis and dissertations

Writings on the Wall: An Investigation into Young Graffiti Writers’ Motivations, Meanings, and Strat[...]

Hanoi

Michelle Kee

Graffiti has become an omnipresent feature of urban landscapes, with these sprawling words and images on public and private surfaces serving as an entry point for an investigation into the relationship between space, aesthetics, and politics. So far, there has been little academic research conducted on street art in the Asian context, and no literature […]

EN

2020 / Thesis and dissertations

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