{"id":12797,"date":"2021-11-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=12797"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:56:33","slug":"market-frictions-endres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/market-frictions-endres","title":{"rendered":"Resilience and transformation in the Vietnamese marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by Kirsten W. Endres, author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/EndresMarket\">Market Frictions: Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/EndresMarket.jpg\" alt=\"Market Frictions: Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border\" width=\"214\" height=\"319\" \/><\/h5>\n<p>Markets and marketplaces have long captured the interest of economic anthropologists because of the insights they offer into the embeddedness of economic activity within wider societal, cultural, and political contexts. They study how different modes of sociality and relatedness are created, negotiated, and instrumentalized in the context of economic and political changes. They look at how participation in economic life is shaped by gender ideologies concerned with ideals of femininity\/masculinity and with men\u2019s and women\u2019s role in family livelihood strategies. They also examine the culturally and politically specific ways in which markets are embedded in state regulation under changing configurations of political economy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/title\/EndresMarket\">Market Frictions<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is the outcome of a research project on <em>Traders, Markets, and the State in Vietnam<\/em> at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. It tells the story of a large indoor public market in L\u00e0o Cai City at the Vietnam-China border and the traders who make a living by running their stalls there. For these people, the border between Vietnam and China offers important economic opportunities that involve relations and exchanges between and among various types of actors, including vendors, customers, suppliers, brokers, creditors, as well as market-control officials, tax collectors, and law-enforcement authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cmarket frictions\u201d I examine here emanate from various factors. They are inherent in the negotiation of power asymmetries and identities at a border that had for many years been characterized by armed violence and diplomatic hostility. They are at work in the \u201cnegotiation\u201d of better economic opportunities and higher profits through bribe arrangements between traders and state officials. They arise when marketplace actors try to reconcile their \u201cmoral economies\u201d with new or changing market and political-economy forces. And they prevail in the contestations over public retail space and imagined futures sparked by urban planning policies and their implementation on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h6><strong>Kirsten W. Endres<\/strong> is Head of the Research Group \u201cThe Political and Economic Anthropology of Southeast Asia\u201d at the Department \u201cResilience and Transformation in Eurasia\u201d of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle\/S. Her previous publications include <em>Performing the Divine. Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam<\/em> (NIAS Press, 2011) and the co-edited volume <em>Traders in Motion. Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace<\/em> (Cornell University Press, 2018).<\/h6>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kirsten W. 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