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Turner, S., Ngo, H. T., Nguyen, T. D., & Buttery, Y. (2024). From strict socialism to social evils: Changing childhoods over three generations in urban Vietnam. Population, Space and Place, 30, e2768. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2768

Garber, P. and S. Turner (2024) Illustrating Farmer–Animal Entanglements and Emotions: Drawing Elicitation in Upland Vietnam. Journal of Economic and Human Geography (online version) 1-14.

Michaud, J. and S. Turner (2024) Cultural Concretions: Hmong Creative Adaptation in Vietnam. Roadsides. 11: 45-53. https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202401107

Turner, S. 2024. Disposable People as Infrastructure? The Livelihood Trials and Tactics of Three-Wheeler Delivery Drivers on Hanoi’s Streets, Vietnam. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, (online version) 1-23.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2024.2320926

Nguyen, A. T. Le, H., Slack, P., Kalacska, M., Turner, S. 2024. Forest Tales? Unravelling Divergent Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC) Maps and State Narratives in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands. Land. 13(1): 1-24. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/1/71

Turner, S., Pham, T.T.H., Ngo, T.H., and C. Zuberec, 2023. Rooftop gardening complexities in the Global South: Motivations, practices, and politics. Geographical Research. Pp.1-15.

Nguyen, N.B. and S.Turner, 2023. Turf wars: The livelihood and mobility frictions of motorbike taxi drivers on Hanoi’s streets. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 64 (2), 171–187.

Slack, P. and S. Turner, 2023. Ethnic minority livelihoods contesting state visions of ‘ideal farmers’ in Vietnam’s northern borderlands, Journal of Political Ecology 30(1), 448–470. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5650 [Winner of the Eric Wolf Prize, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2022].

Garber, P. and S. Turner, 2023. Entangled, unraveled, and reconfigured: Human–animal relations among ethnic minority farmers and water buffalo in the northern uplands of Vietnam. Environment and Planning E. 

Pham, T T H., M. Lynch, and S. Turner, 2023. Creative counter-discourses to the“green city”narrative:practices of small-scale urban agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam. Local Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2022.2162028

Seufert, V., S.E. Austin, M.G. Badami, S. Turner, and N. Ramankutty, 2023.The diversity of organic farmer motivations and livelihoods in the Global South – A case study in Kerala, India. Geoforum, 138.

Turner, S., Labbé, D., Zuberec, C. and B.N.Nguyen, 2022. Creative Hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam: Will Community Visions and State Aspirations Consolidate or Collide? Media-Culture Journal, 25(3). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2890

Labbé, D., Zuberec, C. and S. Turner, 2022. Creative hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam: Transgressive spaces in a socialist state? Urban Studies. https://doi:10.1177/00420980221086371

Labbé, D., Turner, S.and T.T.H. Pham, 2022. Subaltern struggles to access public spaces: Young rural migrants in Hanoi, Vietnam. Population, Space and Place, https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2614

Turner, S., 2022. Slow forms of infrastructural violence: The case of Vietnam’s mountainous northern borderlands. Geoforum, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.11.024

Turner, S. C. Zuberec, and M. Kee, 2021. Looking beyond the digital veil: an investigation of the (de)commodification of three “Vietnamese spices”. Food, Culture and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2021.2015666

Turner, S. and S. Delisle, 2021.‘My Grandmother Never Told Me That Before!’ Collaborative oral histories with ethnic minority youth and elders in northern Vietnam. Commoning Ethnography, 4 (1), online.

Turner, S., J. Langill, & B.N. Nguyen, 2021. The utterly unforeseen livelihood shock: COVID-19 and street vendor coping mechanisms in Hanoi, Chiang Mai and Luang Prabang. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12396

• Winner of the 2021 Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, “Best Overall Paper” Prize.

Kee, M., Turner, S. & Labbé, D., 2021. ‘People want good graffiti’: Tensions, contradictions, and everyday politics surrounding graffiti in Hanoi, Vietnam. Area. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12754

• Watch the video abstract that accompanies this article here.

Nguyen, A.T., Turner, S. & Kalacska, M, 2021. Challenging slopes: ethnic minority livelihoods, state visions, and land-use land cover change in Vietnam’s northern mountainous borderlands. Environment, Development and Sustainability.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01539-1

Turner, S., Celia Zuberec, H.T.T. Pham, 2021. Visualizing frictional encounters: Analyzing and representing street vendor strategies in Vietnam through narrative mapping. Applied Geography, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102460

Lynch, M. & S. Turner, 2021. Rocking the boat: intersectional resistance to marine conservation policies in Wakatobi National Park, Indonesia Gender, Place & Culture DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2021.19

Zuo, Zhenting, J. C. Langill, S. Turner, and J-F. Rousseau, 2021.Spices as the saviour? The complex vulnerabilities of three commodity crop booms and ethnic minority livelihoods in Yunnan’s agrarian frontier, Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 62, No. 1, 100-115.

Adenwala. A. and S.Turner 2020. Small city politics in the Global South: state imaginaries and everyday realities of a frontier city in northern Vietnam, Urban Geography, DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2020.1842098

Allaby, M., G.K. MacDonald, and S. Turner 2020. Growing pains: Small scale farmer responses to an urban rooftop farming and online marketplace enterprise in Montréal, Canada. Agriculture and Human Values https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-020-10173-y

Po, J.Y.T., J.C. Langill, S. Turner & J. Michaud 2020. Distilling Culture into Commodity? The Emergent Homemade Alcohol Trade and Gendered Livelihoods in Upland Northern Vietnam, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 21:5, 397-415.

Turner, Pham T-T-H, and Ngô Thúy Hạnh, 2020. The Territorialization of Vietnam’s Northern Upland Frontier: Migrant Motivations and Misgivings from World War II until Today Migration and Society, 3 (1), 162-179.

Derks A., Turner S., and Ngô Thúy Hạnh, 2020. Bastard Spice or Champagne of Cinnamon? Conflicting Value Creations along Cinnamon Commodity Chains in Northern Vietnam. Development and Change,  51(3) 1–26. DOI: 10.1111/dech.12582.

Pham T-T-H. and S. Turner, 2020. “If I want safe food I have to grow it myself’: Patterns and motivations behind agriculture in a small city in Vietnam’s northern borderlands. Land Use Policy, 96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104681.

Turner S., 2020. Informal motorbike taxi drivers and mobility injustice on Hanoi’s streets. Negotiating the curve of a new narrative. Journal of Transport Geography, 85. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102728.

Turner S. & J. Michaud, 2020. Intergenerational strategies: The successes and failures of a Thai family’s approach to labour migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46 (8), 1467-1665. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1544487.

Turner, S., Monnerat, M., & P. Slack, 2019. Spice Trade 3.0: Exploring the Modern Spice Trade in Vietnam’s Northern Frontier. Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 19, (4), 98–105.

Turner, S., A. Derks, and Ngô Thúy Hạnh 2019: Flex crops or flex livelihoods? The story of a volatile commodity chain in upland northern Vietnam. Journal of Peasant Studies, 46 (2), 276-296.

The Editors, 2019. The future of scholarly publishing: paywalls and profits or a new plan? Geoforum, 102, 1-4.

Rousseau J.F., S. Turner and Y. Xu, 2019. Cardamom Casualties: Extreme Weather Events and Ethnic Minority Livelihood Vulnerability in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands. Climate, 7 (1), 1-15.

Henein, Y., T-T-H Pham, and S. Turner, 2019: A small upland city gets a big make-over: Local responses to state ‘modernity’ plans for Lao Cai, Vietnam. Urban Studies. 56 (16), 3432-3449

Turner, S., and Ngô Thúy Hạnh, 2019: Contesting socialist state visions for modern mobilities: Informal motorbike taxi drivers’ struggles and strategies on Hanoi’s streets, Vietnam. International Development Planning Review, 41(1), 43-61.

Rousseau, J.F. and Turner, S. 2018: Not at all costs: Frontier modernization schemes and ethnic minority livelihood debates in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands. Verge – Studies in Global Asias, 4 (1), 133-159.

Michaud, J. and S. Turner, 2017: Reaching new heights. State legibility in Sa Pa, a Vietnam hill station. Annals of Tourism Research. 66: 37-48.

Delisle, S. and S. Turner, 2016:‘The weather is like the game we play’: Coping and adaptation strategies for extreme weather events among ethnic minority groups in upland northern Vietnam. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 57 (3) 351-364. DOI: 10.1111/apv.12131.

Michaud, J. and S. Turner 2016: Tonkin’s uplands at the turn of the 20th century: Colonial military enclosure and local livelihood effects. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 57 (2), 154-167.

Turner, S. and Michaud, J. 2016: Sinh kế nơi biên cương: Sự thích ứng của người Hmông ở vùng biên giới Việt-Trung.[Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong resilience in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands]. In: Nguyễn Văn Sửu, Lâm Bá Nam, Vương Xuân Tình, Nguyễn Văn Huy (editors) Nhân Học Ở Việt Nam: Lịch Sử, Hiện Trạng Và Triển Vọng [Anthropology in Vietnam: History, Current Status and prospects]. Nhà xuất bản Tri thức, Hanoi, pp315-333.

Kyeyune, V. and S. Turner 2016: Yielding to high yields? Critiquing food security definitions and policy implications for ethnic minority livelihoods in upland Vietnam. Geoforum, 71, 33–43.

Eidse, N., S. Turner, and N. Oswin, 2016: Contesting Street Spaces in a Socialist City: Itinerant Vending-Scapes and the Everyday Politics of Mobility in Hanoi, Vietnam. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 106 (2) 340–349.

Turner, S., T.Kettig, Đinh Thị Diệu, and Phạm Văn Cự, 2016: State Livelihood Planning and Legibility in Vietnam’s Northern Borderlands: The “Rightful Criticisms” of Local Officials. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 46 (1) 42-70.

Turner, S. and T. T. H. Pham, 2015: “Nothing Is Like It Was Before”: The Dynamics between Land-Use and Land-Cover, and Livelihood Strategies in the Northern Vietnam Borderlands. Land, 4 (4), 1030-1059.

Turner, S. and N. Oswin, 2015: Itinerant livelihoods: Street vending-scapes and the politics of mobility in upland socialist Vietnam. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 36 (3), 394-410.

See also: “Editorial: Prize-winning papers for 2015 and the continuing value of geographical diversity” Tim Bunnell and Xi Xi Lu

Filep, C., M. Thompson-Fawcett, S. Fitzsimons, and S. Turner, 2015: Reaching revelatory places: The role of solicited diaries in extending research on emotional geographies into the unfamiliar. Area, 47 (4), 459-465.

Pham, T.T.H., S.Turner and K. Trincsi, 2015: Applying a Systematic Review to Land Use Land Cover Change in Northern Upland Vietnam: the Missing Case of the Borderlands. Geographical Research, 53 (4), 419-435.

Li, Ya Juan, S.Turner and Cui Haiyang,  2015: Confrontations and concessions: An everyday politics of tourism in three ethnic minority villages, Guizhou province, China. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.

Mackenzie, C. A., J. Christensen and S. Turner, 2015: Advocating beyond the academy: dilemmas of communicating relevant research results. Qualitative Research, 15 (1) 105–121

Champalle, Clara and Sarah Turner, 2014: Cash Crops and Climate Shocks: Flexible Livelihoods and Food Security in Southeast Yunnan, China. Chinese Journal of Applied Anthropology, 3 (1) 47-78.

Trincsi, K., H. Pham, and S. Turner 2014: Mapping mountain diversity:  Ethnic minorities and land use land cover change in Vietnam’s borderlands. Land Use Policy, 41, 484-497.

Eidse, N. and S. Turner, 2014: Doing resistance their own way: counter-narratives of street vending in Hanoi, Vietnam through solicited journaling. Area, 46 (3), 242-248.

Bonnin, C. and S. Turner, 2014b: Remaking Markets in the Mountains: Integration, trader agency and resistance in upland northern Vietnam. Journal of Peasant Studies, 41 (3), 321-342.

Bonnin, C. and S. Turner, 2014a: ’A good wife stays home’. Gendered negotiations over state agricultural programmes and food security, upland Vietnam. Gender, Place and Culture, 21 (10), 1302-1320.

Zhang, J., H. Pham, M. Kalacska and S. Turner, 2014: Using Landsat Thematic Mapper records to map land cover change and the impacts of reforestation programmes in the borderlands of southeast Yunnan, China: 1990-2010. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 31, 25-36.

Gerber, J. S. Turner and L. Milgram, 2014: Food provisioning and wholesale agricultural commodity chains in northern Vietnam. Human Organization, 73 (1), 50-61.

Mackenzie, C. A., B. Ricker, J. Christensen, E. Heller, E. Kagan, P. M. Osano, L. Long and S. Turner, 2013: Dear Diary Revisited: Reflecting on collaborative journaling. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 37 (4), 480-486.

Turner, S. 2013: Red stamps and green tea: Fieldwork negotiations and dilemmas in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands. Area, 45 (4), 396-402.

Turner, S. 2013: Under the state’s gaze: Upland trading-scapes on the Sino-Vietnamese border. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 34 (1), 9-24.

Turner, S. 2012: Making a living the Hmong way: an actor-oriented livelihoods approach to everyday politics and resistance in upland Vietnam. Annals of the Association of American Geographers,102 (2), 403-422.

Turner, S. 2012: ‘Forever Hmong’: ethnic minority livelihoods and agrarian transition in upland northern Vietnam. Professional Geographer, 64 (4), 540-553.

Bonnin, C. and S. Turner, 2012: At What Price Rice? Food Security, Livelihood Vulnerability, and State Interventions in Upland Northern Vietnam. Geoforum, 43 (1), 95-105.

Turner, S. and L. Schoenberger, 2012: Street vendor livelihoods and everyday politics in Hanoi, Vietnam: the seeds of a diverse economy? Urban Studies, 49 (5), 1027-1044

Turner, S, and C. Bonnin, 2011: Livelihood Vulnerability and Food Security among Upland Ethnic Minorities in Northern Vietnam. Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies, 26 (1-2): 308-314.

Heller, E., J.Christensen, L.Long, C.A. Mackenzie, P. M. Osano, B.Ricker, E.Kagan, and S.Turner, 2011: Dear Diary: Early career geographers collectively reflect on their qualitative field research experiences. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 35 (1), 67-83.* Awarded Journal of Geography in Higher Education Biennial Prize 2009-2011.

Turner, S. 2010: Challenges and dilemmas: fieldwork with upland minorities in socialist Vietnam, Laos and southwest China. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 51 (2), 121-134.

Turner, S. 2010: The silenced assistant: reflections of invisible interpreters and research assistants. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 51 (2), 206-219.

Turner, S. 2010: Borderlands and border narratives: a longitudinal study of challenges and opportunities for local traders shaped by the Sino-Vietnamese border. Journal of Global History, 5, 265-287.

Tugault-Lafleur, C. and S. Turner 2009: ‘The Price of Spice: Ethnic Minority Livelihoods and Cardamom Commodity Chains in Upland Northern Vietnam‘. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 30, 388-403.

Turner, S. and D. Caouette 2009: ‘Agrarian Angst: Rural Resistance in Southeast Asia‘. Geography Compass, 3, 950-975.

Turner, S. 2009: ‘Hanoi’s Ancient Quarter: Resilient Traders in a Rapidly Transforming City.’ Urban Studies, 46 (5&6) 1203–1221.

Coen, S.E., N.A. Ross and S. Turner 2008: ‘“Without tiendas it’s a dead neighbourhood”: the socio-economic importance of small trade stores in Cochabamba, Bolivia’. Cities, 25, 327–39.

Dressler, W. and S. Turner 2008: ‘The Persistence of Social Differentiation in the Philippine Uplands‘.The Journal of Development Studies, 44 (10), 1450-73.

Schoenberger, L and S. Turner 2008: ‘Negotiating Remote Borderland Access: Small-Scale Trade on the Vietnam – China Border.’ Development and Change, 39 (4), 667–96.

Turner, S. and J. Michaud 2008: ‘Imaginative and Adaptive Economic Strategies for Hmong Livelihoods in Lào Cai Province, Northern Vietnam.’ Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 3 (3), 158-90.

Turner, S. and S.E. Coen 2008: ‘Member checking in human geography: interpreting divergent understandings of performativity in a student space.’ Area, 40 (2), 184-93.

Turner, S. 2007: Trading Old Textiles: the Selective Diversification of Highland Livelihoods in Northern Vietnam. Human Organization, 66 (4), 389-404.

Turner, S. 2007: Small-Scale Enterprise Livelihoods and Social Capital in Eastern Indonesia: Ethnic Embeddedness and Exclusion. Professional Geographer, 59 (4), 407-20.

Turner , S. and D. Manderson 2007: Socialisation in a Space of Law: Student Performativity at ‘Coffee House’ in a University Law Faculty. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25 (5), 761-82.

Turner, S. and P. Allen. 2007: Chinese Indonesians in a Rapidly Changing Nation: Pressures of Ethnicity and Identity. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 48 (1), 112-27.

Hainsworth, G., S. Turner and D. Webster. 2007: Indonesia’s Democratic Struggle: Reformasi, Otonomi and Participasi. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 48 (1), 41-6.

DaCosta, E. and S. Turner 2007: Negotiating Changing Livelihoods: the Sampan Dwellers of Tam Giang Lagoon, Viet Nam. Geoforum, 38, 190-206.

Crack, S. Turner, S., and B. Heenan, 2007: The Changing Face of Voluntary Welfare Service Provision in New Zealand. Health and Place, 13, 188-204.

Manderson, D. and S. Turner, 2006: Coffee House: habitus and performativity amongst law students. Law and Social Inquiry. 31 (3), 649-76.

Michaud, J. and S. Turner, 2006: Contending Visions of Sa Pa, A Hill-Station in Viet Nam. Annals of Tourism Research, 33 (3), 785-808.

Turner, S. and A. P. Nguyen, 2005: Young Entrepreneurs, Social Capital and Doi Moi in Hanoi, Vietnam. Urban Studies, 42 (10), 1-18.

Turner, S. 2005: Nascent Market Capitalism Under Question: Interpretations of Success Amongst Makassar Entrepreneurs. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 96 (3), 264-74.

Michaud, J., S. Turner, and Y. Roche, 2004: Mapping ethnic diversity in highland Northern Vietnam. GeoJournal, 57 (4), 281-99. Mapping Ethnic Diversity in Highland Northern Vietnam link for maps.

Turner, S. 2003: Speaking Out: Chinese Indonesians After Suharto. Asian Ethnicity, 4 (3), 337-52.

Michaud, J. and Turner, S. 2003: Tribulations d’un marché de montagne. Sapa, province de Lao Cai, Vietnam. Études rurales, n° 165-166, janvier-juin. 53-80.

Seymour, R. and Turner. S. 2002: Local People’s Expectations of Indonesia’s Regional Autonomy Programme. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 4 (2), Dec, 33-51.

Turner, S. 2002: Scrutinising Change in Island Southeast Asia. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 4 (2), Dec, 5-7.

Turner, S. 2000: Globalisation, the Economic Crisis, and Small Enterprises in Makassar, Indonesia: Focusing on the Local Dimensions. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21 (3), 336-54.

Turner, S. 2000: Small Scale Enterprises in Ujung Pandang, Indonesia: Flexible Specialisation at Work? New Zealand Geographer, 56 (2), 5-12.

Hardy, A. and S. Turner, S. 2000: Editorial: Migration, Markets and Social Change in the Highlands of Vietnam. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 41 (1), 1-6.

Michaud, J. and Turner, S. 2000: The Sa Pa Marketplace, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 41 (1), 85-100.

GUEST EDITOR, SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS:

Turner, S. and S. Daviau (Guest Editors) 2010: Challenges and dilemmas: fieldwork with upland minorities in socialist Vietnam, Laos and southwest China. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 51 (2).

Hainsworth, G., S. Turner, and D. Webster. (Guest Editors) 2007: Special Issue. ‘Indonesia in the New Millennium: Securing Democracy and National Unity’. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 48 (1).

Allen, P. and S. Turner (Guest Editors) 2003: Special Issue. ‘Speaking Out: Chinese Indonesians After Suharto’. Asian Ethnicity, October 2003.

Turner, S. (Guest Editor) 2002: Special Issue. Scrutinising Change in Island Southeast Asia. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 4 (2), Dec.

Turner, S., Hardy, A. and Michaud, J. (Guest Editors) 2000: Special Issue. Migration, Markets and Social Change in the Highlands of Vietnam. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 41 (1).

ENCYCLOPAEDIA ENTRIES:

Turner, S. 2017:‘Livelihoods‘ In D. Richardson, editor-in-chief, The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Turner S. 2009: ‘Informal economy’ In Kitchin R, Thrift N, eds, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 3, pp. 367–371. Oxford: Elsevier.

Turner, S. 2008: ‘Land tenure and land use, Southeast Asia’. In P. N. Stearns, editor-in-chief, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press.

Turner, S. 2004: ‘Asian Development Bank’ (pp 27-28), ‘Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (p28), ‘Flexible Specialisation’ (pp 243-244). In T. Forsyth, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of International Development. London, Routledge. ISBN: 041525342X.