Rural Life in Late Socialism

Phill Wilcox is a Research Associate at Bielefeld University, Germany. She is interested in the politics of late socialism and works on the politics of development in Laos and across the global South.Jonathan Rigg is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Bristol, UK. He is interested in the human dimensions of agrarian change in Asia and has worked in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as Nepal and Sri Lanka.Minh T.N. Nguyen is Professor of Social Anthropology at Bielefeld University, Germany, and Visiting Professor at Vietnam National University in Hanoi. She works on care, welfare, migration, and labour in China, Vietnam and in the Global South more generally.

• AcknowledgementsList of illustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the FuturePhill Wilcox, Jonathan Rigg and Minh Nguyen2 Risk Perception and Lowland Rice Farming Change in Savannakhet Province, Southern LaosIan G. Baird, Santi Piyadeth and Chanthavisouk Ninchaluene3 Hmong Christianisation, the Will to Improve and the Question of Neoliberalism in Vietnam’s HighlandsSeb Rumsby4 Staying or MovingGovernment Compliance in Post-Zomian LaosGuido Sprenger5 Good Baby, Good LifeExploring a New Akha Way of Life Free from Abnormal BirthRuijing Wang6 Single Mothers’ Livelihoods in Rural North Central Vietnam: Struggles for a Good LifeTuan Anh Nguyen, Cam Ly Thi Vo and Binh Minh Thi Vu7 Rural Schooling and a Good Life in Late Socialist Laos: Articulations, Sketches and Moments of Good TimeRoy Huijsmans and Mr Piti8 Translocal Households and Family Visions in Contemporary Vietnam: A Neoliberal Shift?Hy V. Luong9 Making a Good Life by Building a Good House: A Case Study of Baikou New Village in Southeastern ChinaLan Wei10 A Good Life Postponed: Working in the Countryside, Retiring in the City in Contemporary ChinaCatrina Schwendener11 Tradition, Habitat, and Well-Being: Polygamous Marriage in a Tibetan VillageLi Zhi-nong and He Shu-qingIndex