Law and Precarity
Legal Consciousness and Daily Survival in Vietnam
Part of Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Author: Tu Phuong Nguyen, University of Adelaide
- Date Published: March 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009180474
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Why do some people invoke the law (or resist it) as a way to solve their problems and achieve more stability in life, only to end up in another challenging and uncertain situation? This book offers an original understanding of the important, but understudied, paradoxical effects of law on the survival strategies of Vietnamese people who are caught to live and work in precarious circumstances. It demonstrates how precarity influences the way people perceive, engage with, or resist the law; yet law, at the same time, creates and reinforces such a condition. Understanding the mutually reinforcing relationship between law and precarity sheds a new light on the way law enables individuals to better their condition but ultimately makes matters worse rather than better. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of law and society, political economy, anthropology, and Asian studies.
Read more- Offers the first comprehensive study of legal consciousness and legal mobilization in everyday life in Vietnam as the country experiences major legal, economic and social changes
- Introduces the new concept of precarity to the literature of legal consciousness in daily life based on ethnographic research
- Explains the processes and factors that empower people to use (or resist the law) to achieve greater stability in their lives, yet those that at the same time make their lives and work even more precarious
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- Date Published: March 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009180474
- length: 200 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 155 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Law and precarity in daily life
2. Law and social change in Vietnam
3. Factory workers' early withdrawal of social insurance benefits
4. Early retirement by workers in a former state-owned enterprise
5. Illegal house construction in peri-urban areas
Conclusion
Appendix-Laws cited
Bibliography
Index.
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