Jul 11, 2018

by Erik Harms The village (thôn) of Phú Nhuận is said to have existed since 1698, when Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh established taxation regimes for the Nguyễn Lords in what is now known as the southern region of Vietnam. At that time, Phú Nhuận was part of Gia Định Province (Tỉnh Gia Định), Tân Bình prefecture […]

Jun 29, 2020

Neighborhoods are not just the subject of academic tomes and treatises, but often play a prominent role in the lyrics of popular music. Anyone interested in understanding neighborhoods would do well to listen to the voices of artists, musicians, and poets. For a window into one such perspective, we post a translation of a popular […]

Jan 14, 2022

We are very happy to share news of the publication of Marie Gibert’s paper on rhythmanalysis in Saigon (online first) in Environment and Planning C! Full citation: Gibert-Flutre Marie, « Rhythmanalysis: Rethinking the Politics of Everyday Negotiations in Ordinary Public Spaces », Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2021, Online first. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23996544211020014?icid=int.sj-full-text.citing-articles.1     A rundown of the […]

Nov 09, 2018

by Erik Harms The streets of a city, when studied carefully, can unfurl like the pages of a history book. In Vietnam, the history of street names is particularly revealing, because the names themselves have changed with successive precolonial, colonial, post-colonial, American-sponsored, anti-communist, communist, and what might now be called “late socialist,” “post-reform era,” or, […]