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Development in Spirit
2023
Overview
As state economic policies promote integration under a single logic
of modernist development, many impoverished groups remain on the
margins. Development in Spirit explores the practices
employed by communities on the fringes of such nation-building
projects. Using an everyday political economy lens, Seb Rumsby
demonstrates how seemingly powerless actors actively engage with
larger forces, shaping their experience of development in ways that
are underexamined but have far-reaching consequences. Following
state-led market reforms in the 1980s, Vietnam experienced stunning
economic transformation. But for the Hmong communities of the
country's north and central highlands, the benefits proved elusive.
Instead, the Hmong people have pursued their own alternative paths
to development. Rumsby shows how mass conversion to Christianity
led to a case of \"unplanned development\" that put the Hmong on a
trajectory of simultaneous integration into the market economy and
resistance to state authority. Many of the strategies community
members employ are tied to the Christianization of everyday life.
Religious actors play complex and often contradictory roles in
facilitating networks of exchange, challenging or enforcing gender
norms, promoting communalism and enforcing discipline, and shaping
local ideas about progress. They are influenced by national and
transnational religious networks, especially US-produced radio
broadcasts by Hmong American Christians and local converts. This
compelling account provides fresh theoretical and empirical
insights into the interplay of religion, neoliberal development,
and marketization across the world.
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press,The University of Wisconsin Press
Subject
ISBN
0299342301, 9780299342302, 9780299342333, 0299342336
