Conflicting Concepts: Contested Land Relations in North-western Vietnam

摘要: In villages of north-western Vietnam land allocation provided a window in which different conceptions relations came to light. Villagers resisted the imple­mentation key elements new legislation, though law purported extend people's control. Their resistance manifested fundamental disjuncture between exclusive and territorial concept rights promoted lived relations. They refused give up substance that had proven useful before collectivisation, under collective agriculture again initial years decollectivisation. People's reactions highlight how post-socialist reforms provoke their own forms resistance. negotiate conflicts over resources authority as well very landed property. This article examines nature these conflicts, explores linkages with socialist legis­lation, relates them larger literature on property