Civil Society Networks In China And Vietnam

Author : A. Wells-Dang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230380212
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam written by A. Wells-Dang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings a fresh, original approach to understand social action in China and Vietnam through the conceptual lens of informal environmental and health networks. It shows how citizens in non-democratic states actively create informal pathways for advocacy and the development of functioning civil societies.

Author : A. Wells-Dang
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349351015
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam written by A. Wells-Dang and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings a fresh, original approach to understand social action in China and Vietnam through the conceptual lens of informal environmental and health networks. It shows how citizens in non-democratic states actively create informal pathways for advocacy and the development of functioning civil societies.

Author : Gabi Waibel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134634293
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southeast Asia and the Civil Society Gaze written by Gabi Waibel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As developing countries with recent histories of isolation and extreme poverty, followed by restoration and reform, both Cambodia and Vietnam have seen new opportunities and demands for non-state actors to engage in and manage the effects of rapid socio-economic transformation. This book examines how in both countries, civil society actors and the state manage their relationship to one another in an environment that is continuously shaped and (re)constructed by changing legislation, collaboration and negotiation, advocacy and protest, and social control. Further, it explores the countries’ divergent experiences whilst also uncovering the underlying basis and drivers of civil society activity that are shared by Cambodia and Vietnam. Crucially, this book engages with the contested nature of civil society and how it is socially constructed through research and development activities, by looking at contemporary discourses and manifestations of civil society in the two countries, including national and community-level organisations, associations, and networks that operate in a variety of sectors, such as gender, the environment and health. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Cambodia and Vietnam, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian studies, Southeast Asian politics, development studies and civil society.

Author : John Kleinen
Publisher : Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
ISBN 13 : 235596016X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam: One-Party State and the Mimicry of the Civil Society written by John Kleinen and published by Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the issues of civil society, “good governance”, and the role of NGOs in Vietnam part of a discursive discourse that is linked to a growing development industry in which development studies and economics dominate? Kleinen questions these issues based upon longitudinal research in Vietnam since the early 1990s. In this study, an effort is made to explain the concrete interactions between authorities of the Vietnamese one-party state and its citizens by introducing an attitude of participants to conceal their real intentions with the intent to disguise their actions in order to obtain benefits for their own. Using the concept of mimicry the author tries to grasp what it means to live in a society where political and economic life is dominated by elite groups and were social change is coming from different directions. Two case studies are presented here: one in which local stakeholders of home stay tourism achieve their goals to develop an acceptable form of co-habitation with ethnic minorities without questioning the state. Another case study focuses upon the rapid urbanization of the periphery of Hanoi where land grabbing and private economic gains of outsiders are at loggerheads with local experiences and perceptions of state-village relationships. The question remains what it means for Vietnam's modernization and the prospects of a civil society.

Author : J. Chen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781953562
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Civil Society in China written by J. Chen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the penetration, growth and operation of transnational civil society (TCS) in China. It explores impacts on the incremental development of China's political pluralism, mainly through exploring the influences of the leading TCS actors on the country's bottom-up and self-governing activist NGOs that have sprung up spontaneously, in terms of capacities, strategies, leadership and political outlook, as a result of complex interactions between the two sectors.

Author : Benjamin Lelan Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0415492998
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia written by Benjamin Lelan Read and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together enterprising pieces of new research on the many forms of organization in East and Southeast Asia that are sponsored or mandated by government, but engage widespread participation at the grassroots level. Straddling the state-society divide, these organizations play important roles in society and politics, yet remain only dimly understood. This book shines a spotlight on this phenomenon, which speaks to fundamental questions about how such societies choose to organize themselves, how institutions of local governance change over time, and how individuals respond to and make use of the power of the state. The contributors investigate organizations ranging from volunteer-based organizations that partner with government in providing services for homeless children, to state-managed networks of neighborhood- or village-level associations that perform representative as well as administrative functions and seeks to answer a number of questions: When do the "vertical," top-down imperatives of the state stifle "horizontal" solidarities, and when might the two work in harmony? Are useful social and administrative purposes served by this type of fusion? Does it amplify or merely muffle citizens' voices? What does it tell us about existing accounts of community, social capital, "synergy," "complementarity," "subsidiarity," and related concepts? Representing seven countries: China, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Singapore this volume will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in Asian studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, development, history, nonprofit studies.

Author : Tadashi Yamamoto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerging Civil Society in the Asia Pacific Community written by Tadashi Yamamoto and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Taru Salmenkari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317373863
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society in China and Taiwan written by Taru Salmenkari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of 'civil society' has often been used as a devise for differentiating China from other cultures. Though sometimes portrayed as a growing phenomenon, Chinese civil society is frequently said to be non-existent. Definitional deficiencies have, therefore, led to both a simplification and a narrow appreciation of societal developments in China. By examining various forms of activity, such as NGOs, residential movements, and alternative spaces, this book, however, reassesses the idea of Chinese civil society. Through questioning current methodological, theoretical and structural assumptions, it uses an empirical approach to criticize and expand upon existing understandings of civil society as it is applied in the field of Chinese Studies. Based upon ethnographic research undertaken among activists in both mainland China and Taiwan, it examines issues such as inequality, the mobilizing skills needed for civil society activities, and the technologies which exist to maintain the boundary between state and society. Offering an analysis of Chinese civil society in the context of modernization, social and economic liberalization, and international civil society promotion, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese Studies and Taiwan Studies, as well as development studies and civil society studies.

Author : J. London
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137347538
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in Contemporary Vietnam written by J. London and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam's political development has entered an extraordinary, if indeterminate, phase. Comprising contributions from leading Vietnam scholars, this volume comprehensively explores the core aspects of Vietnam's politics, providing a cutting-edge analysis of politics in one of East Asia's least understood countries.

Author : Jonathan D. London
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317647890
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam written by Jonathan D. London and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.