Connected and Disconnected in Viet Nam: Remaking Social Relations in a Post-socialist Nation

Taylor, Philip R.

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“…In spite of the good intentions, such ethically constitutive accounts undoubtedly pose problems related to Vietnamese citizenship formation. For example, as pointed out by other researchers, communist leaders' efforts to advance ideals of socialist citizenship from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s destroyed many traditional social relationships and local culture (Pelley, 2002;Taylor, 2016). In this context, the traditional person whose loyalties aligned with the family and local groups was replaced by the rational 'new socialist person' who would be "subject to his own desires to the goals of the state, and selflessly work to fulfill these goals" (Salemink, 2016, p. 331).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As such, the training of a high quality workforce can be seen as a political aim because as pointed out in previous chapters, peoplehood accounts related to economic achievements were used with a view to buttress state legitimacy (see also Lall & Vickers, 2009). In other words, being engaged with both modes of governance, Vietnamese political leaders have been seeking to reframe socialist citizenship as a political identity and an educational aim in ways that remain most advantageous to the political priorities of the governing regime (Tai, 2001;Luong, 2013;Taylor, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This study also supports other research in illustrating that Vietnamese citizenship is deemed to be almost affiliated with Kinh, the majority group in Vietnam (Pelley, 2002;Salomon & Vu, 2007). As modernity continues to be a key theme in contemporary education/development discourses, under-represented ethnic people tend to be positioned as the 'under-developed,' 'primitive,' or 'backwards' who need to 'integrate' and 'catch up' with the mainstream for the goals of national modernization (Taylor, 2001;Hoang & Pham, 2012;DeJaeghere, 2015;Taylor, 2016). In this regard, given that the past twenty years saw a vigorous resurgence of traditions and spiritual beliefs in state policies and practices (Tai, 2001;Luong, 2013), regenerating persuasive constitutive accounts can be seen as part of a larger peoplehood project of elite assertion of political and cultural hegemony over the populations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This perception, drawing on Ho Chi Minh's thoughts, can be seen as foundational to policies that aim to advance 'great solidarity' and collective spirit through efforts to preserve the essence of Vietnamese-ness or what is known as 'Vietnamese national (cultural) identity' (bản sắc [văn hóa] dân tộc) (e.g., most recently, CPV, 1998;SRV, 2011). Yet as other research shows, national identity, for many Vietnamese policymakers and cultural officials, seems to be homogeneous and pre-existing (Pelley, 2002;Taylor, 2016). Finding a similar rhetoric in contemporary Vietnam's history schoolbooks, Salomon and Vu (2007) considered that it may have been contributing to essentialist ethnocultural nationalism.…”

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What Citizenship for What Transition?: Contradictions, Ambivalence, and Promises in Post-Socialist Citizenship Education in Vietnam

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2020

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In 1986, the Communist Party of Vietnam officially approved reform policies known as đổi mới (doi moi) which transformed the country from a centrally-planned to a market-oriented economy. Since then, as Vietnam has been integrating into the global economy, the transitional society has become more open and diverse. The transformations have apparently impacted the ways in which citizenship has been understood and practiced in Vietnam. This study specifically investigates changes in state visions of citizenship as reflected in educational discourses. In addition, it examines teachers’ interpretations of good citizenship and their experiences of teaching citizenship in Vietnam’s schools.

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“…Vietnam's integration into global networks (Forbes et al, 1991;Turley & Selden, 1993;Werner & Bélanger, 2002;Hayton, 2010), and a more relaxed, flexible social life, especially in cities (Phuong An Nguyen, 2007;Martin, 2013). Scholars have termed contemporary Vietnam a "post-socialist" country for its embrace of capitalism and neoliberal values, characterised by the state's transfer of welfare issues to the market and non-state actors and its promotion of citizen self-responsibility (e.g., Higgins, 2008;Karis, 2013a;Hai Thiem Bui, 2015;Taylor, 2016, Nguyen-Thu, 2016Minh T. N. Nguyen, 2018b). Since Đổi Mới, a combination of factors, including the Communist party's endorsement of gender equality in political and social participation, rapid industrialisation, and globalisation, has exerted contrasting influences on men and women against the continued imposition of traditional gender ideals (Nguyen Bich Thuan & Thomas, 2004;Khanh Linh Nguyen & Harris, 2009).…”

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This doctoral thesis explores Vietnamese audience reception of soft masculinities, defined by the aestheticisation and romantic idealisation of male characters, in South Korean television dramas (K-dramas). Based on interview data collected in 2019, the thesis focuses on patterns of gendered desire, identification, and negotiation in viewers in their 20s and 30s. It highlights the popularity of K-dramas in Vietnam, which have established an enduring presence there since the late 1990s, overlapping with ongoing changes in gender relations following the introduction of the 1986 Đổi Mới (reform) policy, marked by Vietnam’s transition to a market economy and gradual integration into global trade. The thesis demonstrates how the spread of this “Korean Wave” is correlated with a changing local mediascape, the rise of a consumer culture, and a growing interest in exploring the self. In this thesis, I adopt the Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) method, which draws on the solicitation of free talk and storytelling and psychosocial attention to case studies in order to connect interview participants’ biographical details with their viewing experiences. The study is influenced by Judith Butler’s theoretical work on gender and performativity, as well as related material by scholars such as Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. I highlight how a nuanced understanding of the viewing experience treats it as a complex process linked to an individual’s biographical details and explore how this process intertwines with larger sociocultural contexts, including local norms, Confucian values, feminism, Western gender images, notions of modernity, and globalised aesthetic ideals. The study reveals that although gendered desires and identifications are shaped by norms, they can also subvert them, and thus provides empirical evidence for Butler’s theories from a Vietnamese context. It also shows that desires and identifications that result from engagement with fantasy on screen may follow viewers’ personalised logics and open up multiple avenues for interpretations. Prominent themes of viewing experiences in relation to soft masculinities analysed in this thesis include escapism, parasocial interactions with characters, romantic imaginations, melancholic identification with romantic relationships on screen, desires for upward mobility, queer pleasures, ambivalence, and disidentification. The thesis thus contributes to contemporary Vietnamese studies, gender studies, psychosocial studies, media audience studies, and research on the Korean Wave.

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Should we call it a (middle) class? A socio‐economic exploration of the Vietnamese middle‐income group

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By combining household survey data on the economic and social characteristics of middle‐income earners and primary survey data on their subjective perceptions, we show that the so‐called Vietnamese ‘middle class’ is strongly heterogeneous in terms of income, occupation and status and includes a large percentage of highly vulnerable households facing high individual risk not covered by social protection. Although marginally driven by public sector employment and formal private sector expansion, it shares common traits that might help consolidate class identification and could lead to more formally organised political influence if the political sphere becomes more open in the future.

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Connected and Disconnected in Viet Nam: Remaking Social Relations in a Post-socialist Nation

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

What Citizenship for What Transition?: Contradictions, Ambivalence, and Promises in Post-Socialist Citizenship Education in Vietnam

What Citizenship for What Transition?: Contradictions, Ambivalence, and Promises in Post-Socialist Citizenship Education in Vietnam

Vietnamese Reception Of Soft Masculinities In Korean Television Dramas: Desires, Identifications, And Gender

Should we call it a (middle) class? A socio‐economic exploration of the Vietnamese middle‐income group

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