Link to audio of program:
.As Ho Chi Minh City races to be Vietnam's most modern metropolis, some outlying areas are left behind. Yet they become
interesting because they exhibit many of the tensions that face the developing country after decades of war, as Vietnam copes
with being nominally Socialist but practically capitalist, and races to modernize itself, at the risk of leaving behind
peasants in the largely rural country.
Erik Harms, who teaches Anthropology at Yale, has offered a revealing look at
the social lives that intersect each other in the wake of this modernization race. Focusing on Hóc Môn, on the edge of
Saigon, he writes like a journalist [I mean his writing is readable], revealing social lives as otherwise marginalized
residents of this region on the Trans-Asia Highway are able to tell their stories through his new book, Saigon's Edge: On
the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City, now out from University of
Minnesota Press.
Harms is interviewed by KUCI Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang, in the first show of this 2011 summer online series, as
Subversity takes a break from radio broadcasts for the summer. The interview is exclusively available online, and as
podcasts, with a official posting date of Monday 20 June 2011 but the interview was taped earlier today, 17 June 2011 at
KUCI's studios.
Interview with Harms by Yale University posted on YouTube:
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