Market shrines and urban renewal in Hanoi

Drawing on ideas of a "clean and green city", recent municipal development policies in Hanoi have resulted in the demolition of a number of traditional marketplaces in favour of high-rise buildings. In its efforts to implement environmentalist policies, the city government and investors fi...

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Main Author: Hüwelmeier, Gertrud ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Institution July 2018
In: Sojourn
Year: 2018, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 291-318
Further subjects:B City development
B Vietnam
B Conservation easements
B Environmental policy
B Animism
B Urbanization
B City
B Nature religion
B Market
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Summary:Drawing on ideas of a "clean and green city", recent municipal development policies in Hanoi have resulted in the demolition of a number of traditional marketplaces in favour of high-rise buildings. In its efforts to implement environmentalist policies, the city government and investors find themselves confronted with agentive forces of spirits and other non-humans, which play a significant role in negotiating and protecting urban space in a society increasingly characterized by the manifold dynamics of market socialism. An approach referring to the ecologies of urbanism permits examination of encounters between urban renewal and the spirit world. (Sojourn/GIGA)
ISSN:0217-9520
Contains:Enthalten in: Sojourn