In early May 2019 Dr. Heide Imai was able to visit Vietnam (Hanoi and Ninb Binh) to compare urban and rural landscape of contestation. The fieldwork was conducted with the help of students from different local universities, who would like to compare Vietnams urban and rural contestation with the case of Japan. At the end of the year a visit in Japan (Tokyo and Chiba) is planned, during which the students will compare the case of Hanoi and Tokyo, trying to figuring out what both can learn from each other. A joint conference and journal paper will be published in 2020.
More information will follow soon on the research website.