Erik Harms is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University and the author of Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City.

"Erik Harms's Luxury and Rubble is a work of fine-grained thick description that patiently walks readers through the rapid economic, cultural, and socio-spatial shifts that remade Ho Chi Minh City... superb, even-handed." Cross-Currents

• List of Illustrations Introduction: Luxury and Rubble Part I. Luxury 1. Civilizing the Wastelands: A Short History of Urban Development in Phu M? Hung 2. Civilization City 3. Exercising Consciousness: Self and Society in a Privatizing Space of Exclusion Part II. Rubble 4. Th? Thiem Futures Past: A Short History of Seeing without Seeing 5. Building a Civilized, Modern, and Sentimental City 6. From the Rubble Conclusion: Civility and Dispossession Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Erik Harms is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University and the author of Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City.

"Erik Harms's Luxury and Rubble is a work of fine-grained thick description that patiently walks readers through the rapid economic, cultural, and socio-spatial shifts that remade Ho Chi Minh City... superb, even-handed." Cross-Currents

• List of Illustrations Introduction: Luxury and Rubble Part I. Luxury 1. Civilizing the Wastelands: A Short History of Urban Development in Phu M? Hung 2. Civilization City 3. Exercising Consciousness: Self and Society in a Privatizing Space of Exclusion Part II. Rubble 4. Th? Thiem Futures Past: A Short History of Seeing without Seeing 5. Building a Civilized, Modern, and Sentimental City 6. From the Rubble Conclusion: Civility and Dispossession Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Erik Harms is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University and the author of Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City.

"Erik Harms's Luxury and Rubble is a work of fine-grained thick description that patiently walks readers through the rapid economic, cultural, and socio-spatial shifts that remade Ho Chi Minh City... superb, even-handed." Cross-Currents

• List of Illustrations Introduction: Luxury and Rubble Part I. Luxury 1. Civilizing the Wastelands: A Short History of Urban Development in Phu M? Hung 2. Civilization City 3. Exercising Consciousness: Self and Society in a Privatizing Space of Exclusion Part II. Rubble 4. Th? Thiem Futures Past: A Short History of Seeing without Seeing 5. Building a Civilized, Modern, and Sentimental City 6. From the Rubble Conclusion: Civility and Dispossession Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index