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Download Full Edition The Newsletter | No.73 | Spring 2016 Shifting Ground? Dharavi, Mumbai: Journey to Dunhuang: State and market a special slum? Buddhist art of the in the uplands of Silk Road caves Northeast India The Study | 6-7 The Review | 22 The Portrait | 56 theNewsletter Encouraging knowledge and enhancing the study of Asia 73Heaven’s authority Producing & living & living Producing the city in Vietnam After decades of de-urbanisation under the Our intention is not only to highlight socialist economic regime, urban growth the path-breaking transformations is now exploding in Vietnam: the country’s taking place in today’s Vietnam, urban population has doubled since 1980. but also to contribute to the ‘Asianisation’ of urban studies’ paradigms through This Focus offers a fresh perspective grounded analysis and interpretation, on the production of urban forms, the based on extensive fieldwork conducted reconfiguration of local governance, with local colleagues in Vietnamese and the renegotiation of daily practices, cities and neighbourhoods. mainly in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. 2 | The Newsletter | No.73 | Spring 2016 Contents 3 From the Editor THE STUDY 4-5 Recent forms of social contestation with regard to land tenure in Cambodia Frédéric Bourdier 6-7 Shifting Ground? State and market in the uplands of Northeast India Erik de Maaker, Dolly Kikon & Sanjay Barbora 8-9 From hyper-capitals to shadow capitals: An archipelago of Korean capital cities Valérie Gelézeau 10 -11 Sri Mariamman worship in the Gulf of Thailand William Noseworthy The Focus 12-13 Cultivating Orientalism Stephen McDowall Producing & living 14-15 Dialogues with memory: three conversations on heritage Surajit Sarkar the city in Vietnam 16 Bollywood dreams: far beyond Indian shores Roshni Sengupta Introduction | 29-31 Marie Gibert, Clément Musil, Emmanuelle Peyvel and Juliette THE REGION Segard offer a fresh perspective on the production of urban forms, 17-19 News from Southeast Asia the reconfiguration of local governance, and the renegotiation of THE ADSPACE daily practices, mainly in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Their intention 20-21 Publications, events and calls for papers is not only to highlight the path-breaking transformations taking place in today’s Vietnam, but also to contribute to the ‘Asianisation’ THE REVIEW 22 Dharavi, Mumbai: a special slum? of urban studies’ paradigms through grounded analysis and Hans Schenk interpretation, based on extensive fieldwork conducted with 23 How popular culture defines identity Patrick Vanden Berghe local colleagues in Vietnamese cities and neighbourhoods. 24 The making of India’s modernity Nitin Sinha 24 The making of Mongolian Buddhism 32-33 38-39 Simon Wickhamsmith Beyond iconic new urban projects, the Vietnamese Emmanuelle Peyvel and Võ Sáng Xuân’s article 26 Public space in urban Asia everyday city production still takes place in the interior demonstrates how tourism and cities entertain of their specific urban pattern, namely their alleyway a privileged relationship in Vietnam: cities structure Sander Holsgens neighbourhoods. Marie Gibert and Pha·m Thái So’n the national tourist map, while tourism is a factor 26 Human Trafficking in Colonial Vietnam explore their daily functioning and the current challenges of urban growth and architectural transformations, Christina Firpo they have to face both in Hanoi and HCMC. fostering the global integration of the country. 27 New reviews on newbooks.asia 28 New titles on newbooks.asia 34-35 40-41 Known as motorcycle dependants, the two main While the tourism industry is booming in Vietnam Vietnamese metropolises today face serious traffic and cities face a metropolisation process, architecture problems. While some solutions are under test, and urban heritage appear as a central question: THE FOCUS like the construction of mass rapid transit lines, how to preserve it and how to value it? Interviewed 29-43 Producing and living the city in Vietnam Clément Musil and Vuong Khánh Toàn stress that by Clément Musil, an international cooperation Guest Editors: Marie Gibert, Clément Musil, the authorities have yet to overcome obstacles stakeholder and a local expert give their viewpoint. such as financial, land and governance issues. In addition, a foreign historian proposes other Emmanuelle Peyvel and Juliette Segard explanations. 36 In the context of liberalisation and globalisation of the 42 THE NETWORK country’s economy, Juliette Segard explores how the Ngô Thi· Thu Trang offers an intimate understanding 44-45 IIAS Announcements city production and reproduction mechanisms actively of the ways in which urban dwellers, in their growing 46-47 In Memoriam: Mario Rutten, contribute to reshaping State-Society relationship and diversity, negotiate urban mutations on a daily and local political structures. 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