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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/between-village-and-city-how-e
 de-communities-navigate-urbanization-in-vietnams-central-highlands/
SUMMARY:Between Village and City: How Ede Communities Navigate Urbanization
  in Vietnam's Central Highlands
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Asia Center\n\nSince the 1950s\, rapid ur
 banization has transformed the lives of Indigenous peoples worldwide\, wit
 h increasing numbers becoming urban residents. Urban indigeneity has conse
 quently emerged as an important lens through which scholars examine how In
 digenous communities respond to the challenges of urbanization. Drawing on
  more than a decade of engagement with local communities\, this talk exami
 nes how Ede communities in Buon Ma Thuot\, the largest urban center in Vie
 tnam’s Central Highlands\, navigate the social and cultural transformati
 ons associated with urbanization. These transformations include the shift 
 from traditional longhouse architecture to smaller household-based stilt h
 ouses\, the diversification of livelihood strategies and the expansion of 
 social networks\, and the reconfiguration of cultural and religious practi
 ces. At the same time\, Ede communities have sought to maintain community 
 forests and other cultural connections that sustain their relationships wi
 th land and nature and their cultural and spiritual life. Situating these 
 experiences within the broader historical and political contexts of Christ
 ianity\, ethnic relations\, and state-led development in Vietnam\, I chall
 enge the conventional understanding of Christianity as an assimilatory for
 ce in Indigenous communities. I argue that\, where Christianity itself occ
 upies a minoritized position within the dominant social order\, Catholic a
 nd Protestant communities can become alternative spaces through which Ede 
 people negotiate urbanization\, cultural change\, and collective identity.
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
LOCATION:Common Room (#136)\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, United S
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