This article explores the cross‐border trading networks and practices of highland residents
in north‐west Vietnam. It reveals how such individuals, of highland minority and majority …

Terrain is central to understanding why some countries experience contentious ethnic
divisions and civil war. While existing research specifies a direct effect of rugged terrain on …

In this article, I detail and evaluate the negotiations I had to broker to conduct ethnographic
research on marketplace vendors and trade in the upland borderlands of northern Vietnam …

This article presents research about the influences of social and cultural norms on the
adoption of agroforestry in the northwest mountainous region of Viet Nam. The farming …

In this dissertation I investigate market formation and integration in the northern uplands of
Vietnam (Lào Cai province) through a focus on the everyday processes by which markets …

Travelling through various historical and geographical contexts, Social Imaginaries of Space
explores diverse forms of spatiality, examining the interconnections which shape different …

Political scientists and policy-makers have long argued that state weakness leads to civil
conflict while enhancing state power helps prevent violence. Why, then, has increased state …

This study examines the disproportionately poor academic performance of the Hmong
among the minorities in Vietnam by using Ogbu's cultural ecological theory (Ogbu, 2003) …

Six decades ago, Vietnam was colonised by France after a long history of successive
dynasties tributary to the country's larger neighbour–China. During World War II, Vietnam …

The dissertation presents a thorough analysis of forest policies in Northern Vietnam which
simultaneously apprehends the biophysical conditions, institutions, discourses and socio …