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The Power of Everyday Politics

How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy

By: Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet

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The Power of Everyday Politics

How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy

By: Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet

Ordinary people's everyday political behavior can have a huge impact on national policy: that is the central conclusion of this book on Vietnam. In telling the story of collectivized agriculture in that country, Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet uncovers a history of local resistance to national policy and gives a voice to the villagers who effected change. Not through open opposition but through their everyday political behavior, villagers individually and in small, unorganized groups undermined collective farming and frustrated authorities' efforts to correct the problems.The Power of Everyday Politics is an authoritative account, based on extensive research in Vietnam's National Archives and in the Red River Delta countryside, of the formation of collective farms in northern Vietnam in the late 1950s, their enlargement during wartime in the 1960s and 1970s, and their collapse in the 1980s. As Kerkvliet shows, the Vietnamese government eventually terminated the system, but not for ideological reasons. Rather, collectivization had become hopelessly compromised and was ultimately destroyed largely by the activities of villagers. Decollectivization began locally among villagers themselves; national policy merely followed. The power of everyday politics is not unique to Vietnam, Kerkvliet asserts. He advances a theory explaining how everyday activities that do not conform to the behavior required by authorities may carry considerable political weight.

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Cornell University Press

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1501722018

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9781501722011

Everyday Politics in the Philippines

Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village

By: Benedict J. Kerkvliet

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Everyday Politics in the Philippines

Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village

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Focusing on a rice farming village in central Luzon, Kerkvliet argues that the faction and patron-client relationships dealt with by conventional studies are only one part of Philippine political life.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742518701

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9780742518704

Speaking Out in Vietnam

Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party–Ruled Nation

By: Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet

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Speaking Out in Vietnam

Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party–Ruled Nation

By: Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet

Since 1990 public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam's political landscape. So argues Benedict Kerkvliet in his analysis of Communist Party–ruled Vietnam. Speaking Out in Vietnam assesses the rise and diversity of these public displays of disagreement, showing that it has morphed from family whispers to large-scale use of electronic media. In discussing how such criticism has become widespread over the last three decades, Kerkvliet focuses on four clusters of critics: factory workers demanding better wages and living standards; villagers demonstrating and petitioning against corruption and land confiscations; citizens opposing China's encroachment into Vietnam and criticizing China-Vietnam relations; and dissidents objecting to the party-state regime and pressing for democratization. He finds that public political criticism ranges from lambasting corrupt authorities to condemning repression of bloggers to protesting about working conditions. Speaking Out in Vietnam shows that although we may think that the party-state represses public criticism, in fact Vietnamese authorities often tolerate and respond positively to such public and open protests.

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Cornell University Press

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150173640X

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9781501736407

Vietnam's Rural Transformation

By: Benedict J Tria Kerkvliet

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Vietnam's Rural Transformation

By: Benedict J Tria Kerkvliet

Since the mid-1980s, Vietnam has experienced remarkable economic, political, and social change. This is the first study in English to focus on rural Vietnam — where nearly 80 per cent of its people live, much of its economic production occurs, and political upheavals earlier this century changed the course of history. Analyzing the impact of economic liberalization on the countryside, the contributors note that despite significant improvements in real income for most rural Vietnamese, poverty is still pronounced and socio-economic inequality appears to be growing. The poorest now appear to have less access to educational and health services. Environmental conditions also pose significant problems. Highlighting the dynamic political scene in Vietnam, the contributors also consider the interplay between national policymaking and local pressures and activity.

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Routledge

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0429971818

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Speaking Out in Vietnam

Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party–Ruled Nation

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Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party–Ruled Nation

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Everyday Politics in the Philippines

Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village

By: Benedict J. Kerkvliet

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Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village

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The Huk Rebellion

A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines

By: Benedict J. Kerkvliet

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The Huk Rebellion

A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines

By: Benedict J. Kerkvliet

Newly available with an updated bibliographic essay, this highly acclaimed work explores the Huk rebellion, a momentous peasant revolt in the Philippines. Unlike prevailing top-down analysis, Kerkvliet seeks to understand the movement from the point of view of its participants and sympathizers. He argues that seeing a peasant revolt through the eyes of those who rebelled explains and clarifies the actions of people who otherwise might appear irrational. Drawing on a rich array of documents and in-depth interviews with peasants and rebel leaders, the author provides definitive answers to the causes of the rebellion, the goals of the rebels, and the process of resistance.

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The Power of Everyday Politics

How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy

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How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy

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The Power of Everyday Politics

How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy

By: Benedict J. Kerkvliet

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The Power of Everyday Politics

How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy

By: Benedict J. Kerkvliet

A political history and ethnography of local resistance to Vietnam's national policy of collectivized farms, tracing their formation in the 1950s, enlargement during wartime in the 1960s and 1970s, and eventual collapse in the 1980s. Based on more than a decade of research in the Red River Delta and Vietnam's National Archives, this book gives voice to the villagers who effected change and advances a theory of how everyday activities that do not conform to the behaviour required by authorities may carry considerable weight in shaping - and even changing - the direction of national policy.

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Vietnam's Rural Transformation

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Vietnam's Rural Transformation

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Speaking Out in Vietnam

Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-ruled Nation

By: Benedict J. Kerkvliet

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Speaking Out in Vietnam

Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-ruled Nation

By: Benedict J. Kerkvliet

Investigates how public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam's political landscape since the mid 1990s and how state authorities have dealt with it with a combination of responsiveness, toleration, and repression"--

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Book's by Benedict J Tria Kerkvliet

The Power of Everyday Politics

The Power of Everyday Politics

Everyday Politics in the Philippines

Everyday Politics in the Philippines

Speaking Out in Vietnam

Speaking Out in Vietnam

Vietnam's Rural Transformation

Vietnam's Rural Transformation

Speaking Out in Vietnam

Speaking Out in Vietnam

Everyday Politics in the Philippines

Everyday Politics in the Philippines

The Huk Rebellion

The Huk Rebellion

The Power of Everyday Politics

The Power of Everyday Politics

The Power of Everyday Politics

The Power of Everyday Politics

Vietnam's Rural Transformation

Vietnam's Rural Transformation

Speaking Out in Vietnam

Speaking Out in Vietnam

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