02799 a2200517 4500 OB-irasec-1026 FrMaCLE 20251214082714.0 cu ||||||m|||| 180814e||||||||xx |||||s|||||||||0|en|d 978-2-35596-016-1 10.4000/books.irasec.1026 doi FR-FrMaCLE eng Kleinen, John Vietnam: One-Party State and the Mimicry of the Civil Society / John Kleinen. Bangkok : Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine, 2018. 118 p. Ebook 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. OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554 Asian Studies politique développement presse médias libertés Vietnam ONG société civile gouvernance Viêt Nam aide droits media politics Civil Society Press governance rights development ngo freedoms 978-616-7571-25-6 Kleinen, John https://books.openedition.org/irasec/1026 Vietnam: One-Party State and the Mimicry of the Civil Society 8810 8810