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<p>Why does environmental knowledge not consolidate into transformation? The puzzle lies in the durability of degradation despite sustained awareness and institutional engagement. Along the Tô Lịch River in Hanoi, residents recognize contamination, authorities advance remediation plans, and major wastewater infrastructure has been installed, yet ecological recovery remains elusive. Drawing on fourteen months of environmental ethnography across three river segments, combined with policy and infrastructural analysis, this article examines how socio-ecological stability is maintained under prolonged pollution. It introduces the concept of the Ecology of Stalled Agency to describe a configuration in which environmental recurrence, infrastructural sequencing, and moral adjustment operate simultaneously without generating structural reorganization. Rather than attributing persistence to ignorance or institutional failure, the study identifies patterned temporal misalignment across ecological processes, administrative coordination, and lived adaptation. Situating the Tô Lịch alongside other chronically polluted urban rivers, the article clarifies how systems can sustain operational continuity while ecological restoration remains deferred.</p>

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Waiting Beside the Black River: Stalled Agency and the Moral Ecology of Post-Resilience Hanoi

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    2026年7月20日

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  • Thi Thanh Hoa Nguyen,
  • Quoc Viet Tran,
  • Dang Tri Hoang

摘要

Why does environmental knowledge not consolidate into transformation? The puzzle lies in the durability of degradation despite sustained awareness and institutional engagement. Along the Tô Lịch River in Hanoi, residents recognize contamination, authorities advance remediation plans, and major wastewater infrastructure has been installed, yet ecological recovery remains elusive. Drawing on fourteen months of environmental ethnography across three river segments, combined with policy and infrastructural analysis, this article examines how socio-ecological stability is maintained under prolonged pollution. It introduces the concept of the Ecology of Stalled Agency to describe a configuration in which environmental recurrence, infrastructural sequencing, and moral adjustment operate simultaneously without generating structural reorganization. Rather than attributing persistence to ignorance or institutional failure, the study identifies patterned temporal misalignment across ecological processes, administrative coordination, and lived adaptation. Situating the Tô Lịch alongside other chronically polluted urban rivers, the article clarifies how systems can sustain operational continuity while ecological restoration remains deferred.