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Reaching new heights. State legibility in Sa Pa, a Vietnam hill station

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  • Michaud, Jean
  • Turner, Sarah

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In this paper we analyze the recent acceleration of tourism in the historical hill station of Sa Pa Town and District, in Lào Cai Province, northern Vietnam. The article builds on debates concerning state efforts to increase legibility in a frontier area, modernity at the state’s margins, and critiques of mass tourism in socialist Vietnam. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork since 1995, we examine the state's modernist project for Sa Pa, exploring the roles of corporate entities and local state agents, and interpreting the impacts of recent tourism plans and policies on ethnic minority communities and Kinh residents. We reveal an underlying project among state officials and entrepreneurs to harness this marginal space on the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands regardless of cultural distinctions.

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  • Michaud, Jean & Turner, Sarah, 2017. "Reaching new heights. State legibility in Sa Pa, a Vietnam hill station," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 37-48.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:anture:v:66:y:2017:i:c:p:37-48
    DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2017.05.014
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    1. Youssef Henein & Thi-Thanh-Hien Pham & Sarah Turner, 2019. "A small upland city gets a big make-over: Local responses to state ‘modernity’ plans for Là o Cai, Vietnam," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(16), pages 3432-3449, December.

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