Vietnam at the Vanguard

This transdisciplinary edited book explores new developments and perspectives on global Vietnam, touching on aspects of history, identity, transnational mobilities, heritage, belonging, civil society, linguistics, education, ethnicity, and worship practices. Derived from the Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue conference series, this cutting-edge collection presents new scholarship and also represents new ways of knowing global Vietnam. Over the past 10 years, knowledge production about Vietnam has diversified in various ways as globalization, the internationalization of higher education, and the digital revolution have transformed the world, as well as Vietnam. Whereas as late as a decade ago, knowledge about Vietnam was still largely the preserve of scholars in Vietnam and a coterie of related experts outside of the country at a select few universities, today we find scholars working on Vietnam in myriad contexts. This transformation has introduced new voices and new perspectives, which this book champions. A critical text engaging a range of historical and contemporary debates about Vietnam, this book is an indispensable volume for the Southeast Asian Studies student and scholar in the humanities and social sciences.

Auteur

Jamie Gillen is Senior Lecturer and Director of Global Studies Programme at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr Gillen specializes in human geographies of Southeast Asia, and Vietnam in particular. He is interested in cultural politics, ruralurban relations, tourism encounters, and the idiosyncrasies of fieldwork. Dr Gillen has published one monograph and numerous papers in geography, tourism, and urban studies debates. Recent research has been in agrarian change and livelihood diversification in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, resulting in a co-edited volume entitled Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective (2019, Amsterdam University Press) with Eric Thompson and Jonathan Rigg. Liam C. Kelley is Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He is also the co-organizer of the Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue conference series. His research focuses on premodern Vietnamese and Southeast Asian history, as well as the ways in which the past is continuously re-purposed in the modern and contemporary eras. Professor Kelley also shares his historical knowledge on the Internet and YouTube under the name Le Minh Khai blog.

PHAN Le Ha (PhD), founder of Engaging With Vietnam, is Senior Professor at Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education and Head of the International and Comparative Education Research Group at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Prior to Brunei, Prof Phan was tenured Full Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she maintains her affiliation, and Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Australia. She has taught and written extensively on English language education, identity-language-culture-pedagogy, global/international/transnational higher education, academic mobilities, and sociology of knowledge. Her research work has covered many contexts in Asia, the Asia-Pacific and the Gulf regions.

Contenu

1 Introduction

Jamie Gillen, Liam C. Kelley, & Phan Le Ha

PART I: Shaping Vietnamese Communities in a Globalized World

2 Transnational Life Trajectories and the Notion of Return: German-born Vit kiu (Overseas Vietnamese) Travelling to their Ancestral Homeland

Max Müller, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

3 Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression

Mirjam Le & Franziska Nicolaisen, University of Passau, Germany

4 Sharing Harmony and Solidarity Values across Generations in Australian Vietnamese Refugee Families

Giang T. T. Tran, Hanoi University of Culture, Vietnam

5 Social Capital for Local Governance beyond the State-Civil Society Dichotomy and Insights from Vietnam through the Case Study of a Community-based Upgrading Project Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy, Lincoln University, New Zealand

PART II: History, Community, and Cultural Practices across Time and Space

6 Lc Vit: From Ethnonym to Symbolic Ethnicity

Dinh Hong Hai, Vietnam National University-Hanoi, Vietnam & Liam C. Kelley, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei

7 Ethics, Place, and Cosmopolitan Strands in Early Twentieth Century Korean and Vietnamese Literati-Intellectuals' Writings

Will Pore, Busan University, South Korea

8 Support of the Polish People's Republic for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War

Jarema Sowiak, Jagiellonian University, Poland

9 Kite Flying as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam: Community Embodiment or Appropriating Culture?

Dang Thi Phuong Anh, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam

10 From Dichotomy to Multipolarity: A Case Study of the Four Ladyship Saints Worshipping Practices in Vietnam

Tran Thi An, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam

11 Divinatory Arts and T Vi

Myriam Dao, Artist and Independent Scholar, France

PART III: Higher Education, Society and the Global Stage

12 Developing a Research Culture in Vietnam: A Leadership Conceptual Framework

Huong Thi Lan Nguyen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia & Timothy Marjoribanks, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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