The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam is a comprehensive resource exploring social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of Vietnam, one of contemporary Asia’s most dynamic but least understood countries. Following an introduction that highlights major changes that have unfolded in Vietnam over the past three decades, the volume is organized into four thematic parts
•Politics and Society
•Economy and Society
•Social Life and Institutions
•Cultures in Motion
Part I addresses key aspects of Vietnam’s politics, from the role of the Communist Party of Vietnam in shaping the country’s institutional evolution, to continuity and change in patterns of socio-political organization, political expression, state repression, diplomatic relations, and human rights. Part II assesses the transformation of Vietnam’s economy, addressing patterns of economic growth, investment and trade, the role of the state in the economy, and other economic aspects of social life. Parts III and IV examine developments across a variety of social and cultural fields through chapters on themes including welfare, inequality, social policy, urbanization, the environment and society, gender, ethnicity, the family, cuisine, art, mass media, and the politics of remembrance.
Featuring 38 essays by leading Vietnam scholars from around the world, this book provides a cutting-edge analysis of Vietnam’s transformation and changing engagement with the world. It is an invaluable interdisciplinary reference work that will be of interest to students and academics of Southeast Asian studies, as well as policymakers, analysts, and anyone wishing to learn more about contemporary Vietnam.
Author(s): Jonathan D. London
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 614
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 How to Study Contemporary Vietnam?
Part I Politics and Society
2 The Communist Party of Vietnam: Consolidating market-Leninism
3 Political Representation in Contemporary Vietnam
4 Public Political Criticism in Vietnam, 1990s–2018
5 Civil Society and Advocacy Networks in Vietnam
6 The Role of the Military and Public Security in Contemporary Vietnam
7 Human Rights in Contemporary Vietnam
8 Vietnam’s Foreign Policy: Structure, Evolution, and Contemporary Challenges
Part II Economy and Society
9 Vietnam’s extraordinary economic journey from poverty to prosperity
10 Vietnam’s Foreign Direct Investment and Export Performance
11 Contemporary Vietnam: State Effectiveness Under Conditions of Commercialization
12 The Political Economy of Private-Sector Development in Vietnam Since Doi Moi
13 Decentralization and Economic Development in Vietnam
14 Contradictions of Multistakeholder Labor Relations in Vietnam
15 Land in contemporary Vietnam
16 Market Personhood in Urban Southern Vietnam
17 Contemporary Vietnam’s Economy in Historical Perspective: Đổi Mới or Đổi Lại?
Part III Social Life and Institutions
18 Welfare, inequality, and opportunity in contemporary Vietnam
19 Education and development in Vietnam: A glass half full?
20 Contemporary Vietnam’s Health Status and Health System
21 Post-colonial urbanization in Vietnam: Urban order and unruliness
22 Sociocultural Life and Social Relations in Rural Vietnam’s Lowlands
23 The Cosmopolitan Delta: Ethnic Pluralism at the Mouth of the Mekong
24 Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam: State Relations and Social Change
25 Environment and society in contemporary Vietnam: Development, crisis, and responses
26 The Family in Contemporary Viet Nam
27 Feminism in Vietnam: Women’s studies, gender research, and Intersections
28 Masculinity and Violence in Vietnam
29 Marriage, family and kinship in Vietnam: Shadows and silences
30 The Affairs of Men: Masculinity in Contemporary Vietnam
31 LGBTQ in Vietnam: Heteronormativity and Resistance
Part IV Cultures in Motion
32 Contemporary Vietnamese Cuisine
33 Driving Doi moi: Motorbikes, cars, and capitalism in Vietnam’s Socialist Market Economy
34 Religion in contemporary Vietnam
35 Movements of independent art in contemporary Vietnam
36 Revolutionary journalism in contemporary Vietnam
37 Popular television: Socialist politics and market competition
38 Remembrance, commemoration, and revolutionary apparitions: Ritualizing connections with the past and the future in Vietnam
Index
