Between War and the State (eBook)

Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975

Van Nguyen-Marshall (Autor)

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2023
240 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7060-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In Between War and the State, Van Nguyen-Marshall examines an array of voluntary activities, including mutual-help, professional, charitable, community development, student, women's, and rights organizations active in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1975. By bringing focus to the public lives of South Vietnamese people, Between War and the State challenges persistent stereotypes of South Vietnam as a place without society or agency. Such robust associational life underscores how an active civil society survived despite difficulties imposed by the war, government restrictions, economic hardship, and external political forces. These competing political forces, which included the United States, Western aid agencies, and Vietnamese communist agents, created a highly competitive arena wherein the South Vietnamese state did not have a monopoly on persuasive or coercive power. To maintain its influence, the state sometimes needed to accommodate groups and limit its use of violence. Civil society participants in South Vietnam leveraged their social connections, made alliances, appealed to the domestic and international public, and used street protests to voice their concerns, secure their interests, and carry out their activities.

Autor

Van Nguyen-Marshall is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Trent University. She is the author of In Search of Moral Authority.

Inhalt

Introduction: Theory and Scope
1. The Historical and Political Landscape
2. Sociability and Associational Life in South Vietnam
3. Performing Social Service in South Vietnam
4. Voluntary Efforts in Social and Community Development
5. Social and Political Activism of Students in South Vietnam
6. S.ng Thn Newspaper and the "Highway of Horror" Project
7. The Fight for Rights and Freedoms in the 1970s
Conclusion: Challenges and Possibilities in Comparative Context

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 7 b&w halftones, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Vietnam War, South Vietnam’s civil society, South Vietnam politics, Republic of Vietnam, civilian life under the RVN, US presence in Vietnam, history of South Vietnam
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-7060-8 / 1501770608
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-7060-9 / 9781501770609