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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jamie GillenPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780739173305ISBN 10: 0739173308 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 16 March 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Rethinking Entrepreneurialism through Cultural-Economic Registers Chapter 3: A Battle worth Winning?: The Production and Protection of Culture in the Reform Era Chapter 4: State-non-State Coordination in the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Industry Chapter 5: Commodifying Memory: Touring Warscapes in South Vietnam Chapter 6: Domestic Tourism in Vietnam: Disruptions of a Dialectic and a Stereotypical Response Chapter 7: ConclusionReviewsEntrepreneurialism and Tourism in Contemporary Vietnam explores the entrepreneurial model of political governance in Ho Chi Minh City's tourist industry. This is a thought-provoking book that provides important insights into the processes of development, entrepreneurialism, and tourism. This study is an intriguing and insightful contribution to tourism at the intersections of international capitalism, the state, and ongoing debates surrounding the changing face of Vietnam's economy. -- Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of Chicago Entrepreneurialism and Tourism in Contemporary Vietnam explores the entrepreneurial model of political governance in Ho Chi Minh City's tourist industry. This is a thought-provoking book that provides important insights into the processes of development, entrepreneurialism, and tourism. This study is an intriguing and insightful contribution to tourism at the intersections of international capitalism, the state, and ongoing debates surrounding the changing face of Vietnam's economy. -- Kimberly Kay Hoang, University of Chicago Jamie Gillen's fascinating study of everyday life in the tourism industry in Ho Chi Minh City illuminates complex entanglements between culture and economy and between entrepreneurship and government. Resisting an easy distinction between socialism and the market economy, Gillen details how culture serves as a malleable resource for entrepreneurs and for officials, many of whom have adopted an entrepreneurial approach to contemporary governance. This book offers an important counter-narrative to claims that a globally ascendant neoliberalism is the primary motor driving contemporary economic policy in Vietnam. -- Ann Marie Leshkowich, College of the Holy Cross Author InformationJamie Gillen is assistant professor of geography at the National University of Singapore. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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