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Department of Geography
McGill University,
805 Sherbrooke Street West,
Montreal, QC H3A 2K6
Canada

Sarah Turner

Associate Professor

Development geography; Southeast Asian geographies; livelihood studies; commodity chain approaches; small-scale traders; marketplace trade; upland minorities in peninsula Southeast Asia and southwest China; Hanoi small-scale traders and street vendors; Eastern Indonesia entrepreneurs.

Publications

Recent publications include:

Books:

Dominique Caouette and Sarah Turner (editors) (2009) Agrarian Angst and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Southeast Asia. Routledge.

Turner, S. 2003: Indonesia’s Small Entrepreneurs: Trading on the Margins. London, RoutledgeCurzon [ISBN 0 7007 1569 X] 288pp. Hardback.

Journal Articles:

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. (201X; online version avail) ‘Forever Hmong’: ethnic minority livelihoods and agrarian transition in upland northern Vietnam. Professional Geographer.

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 Studies49 (5) 1027-1044

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.

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), pp761 – 82.

Turner, S. and P. Allen. 2007: Chinese Indonesians in a Rapidly Changing Nation: Pressures of Ethnicity and Identity. Asia Pacific Viewpoint . 48 (1), pp112-27.

Hainsworth, G., S. Turner and D. Webster. 2007: Indonesia's Democratic Struggle: Reformasi, Otonomi and Participasi. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 48 (1), pp41-6.

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

Crack, S. Turner, S., and B. Heenan, 2007: The Changing Face of Voluntary Welfare Service Provision in New Zealand. Health and Place. Vol. 13, pp188-204.

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

Michaud, J. and S. Turner, 2006: Contending Visions of Sa Pa, A Hill-Station in Viet Nam. Annals of Tourism Research. Vol 33, no 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 (2002 –published in 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 of 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).

Book Chapters:

Turner, S. (in press) Appropriate space? An everyday politics of street vendor negotiations in Hanoi, Vietnam. In: Street Economies, Politics and Social Movements in the Urban Global South (provisional title). K. Tranberg Hansen, W. Little, and L. Milgram, eds, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe.

Turner, S. and C. Bonnin (in press) It doesn’t taste right: Hybrid rice and everyday politics in the northern Vietnam uplands. In: Revisiting Rural Places: pathways to poverty and prosperity in Southeast Asia. Jonathan Rigg and Peter Vandergeest, eds, National Unviersity of Singapore Press, Singapore.

Tugault-Lafleur, C. and S. Turner 2011. Of Rice And Spice: Hmong Livelihoods And Diversification in the Northern Vietnam Uplands. In Moving Mountains. Ethnicity and Livelihoods in Highland China, Vietnam and Laos, eds. J. Michaud and T. Forsyth, 100-122. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Chapters 1 (Turner and Caouette); 2 (Caouette and Turner) and 3 (Turner and Michaud) in edited volume (see above 'Books') : 2009: Agrarian Angst and Rural Resistance in Southeast Asia.

Allen, P and Turner S, 2007: Menegosiasi Identitas: Orang Tionghoa di Indonesia Pasca-Suharto [Negotiating Identity: Chinese Indonesians in Post-Suharto Indonesia]. In Drama Indonesia: Ketidakpastian dalam Dunia yang Mengglobal. [ Indonesian Drama: Uncertainty in a Globalizing World ] G. Hainsworth, and B. Setiawan ed. Jogyakarta, University Gadjah Mada Press. pp 267-84 [Indonesian Cetakan pertama no.(equiv. to ISBN) 1389.73.03.07]

Turner, S. and Turner. B. 2003: On the margins in New Zealand Society. In Towards Sustainable Settlements: A New Zealand Perspective. C. Freeman and M. Thompson-Fawcett, eds., Dunedin: Otago University Press. pp. 71-94. [ISBN 1877276456]

Turner, S. and Seymour. R. 2002: Ethnic Chinese and the Indonesian Crisis. In Nations under Siege: Globalisation and Nationalism in Asia. R. Starrs, ed., New York: Palgrave, Macmillan Press, pp.169-94.

Turner, S. 2000: Small-Scale Enterprises in Indonesia. In Small Enterprise Development. The Experience of the South and the North. P.M.Mathew, ed., New Delhi: Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., pp. 121-136. [ISBN 81 204 1429 2]

Turner, S. 2000: Surviving the Asian Crisis: Small Scale Enterprises in Ujung Pandang, Indonesia. In Globalisation and the Asian Economic Crisis: Indigenous Responses, Coping Strategies, and Governance Reform in Southeast Asia. G. Hainsworth, ed., Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 301-20. [ISBN 0 88865 738 2]

Michaud, J. and Turner, S. 2000: Trading Places. Change in a Highland Marketplace. Sa Pa, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. In Globalisation and the Asian Economic Crisis: Indigenous Responses, Coping Strategies, and Governance Reform in Southeast Asia. G. Hainsworth, ed., Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 97-116. [ISBN 0 88865 738 2]

Turner, S. 1998: The Impact of Globalisation on the Informal Sector in Malaysia. In The Naga Awakens: Growth and Change in Southeast Asia. V. Savage, L. Kong and W. Neville, eds., Singapore: Times Academic Press, pp. 121-38. [ISBN 981 210 1152]

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