ISBN:
9781501770593
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
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7 b&w halftones, 1 map
DDC:
306.209597
Keywords:
HISTORY.
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Political Science & Political History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
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Associations, institutions, etc
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Associations, institutions, etc
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Civil society
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Civil society
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Political participation
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Political participation
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Social action
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Social action
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Social aspects
Abstract:
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 1954-1975. 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
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781501770593
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501770593?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501770593
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