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François Guillemot : Le “Renouveau” vietnamien, bilan provisoire [Fils Rouges Vietnam]

[ndlr] Résumé de notre intervention à la conférence Fils Rouges Vietnam du samedi 30 juin 2018.

Dans cette présentation succincte de trente minutes, l’auteur balaie 30 ans de la politique vietnamienne du “Renouveau” (Đổi Mới) en partant de la chute de Saigon. L’objectif de cette introduction générale est d’offrir aux étudiants une grille de compréhension et un cadre de réflexion sur cette politique vietnamienne à travers ses forces et ses faiblesses, ses réussites et ses défis en cours et à venir. Décrétée lors du VIe congrès du Parti communiste vietnamien en décembre 1986, le Đổi Mới, véritable “révolution dans la révolution”, a façonné le Viêt-Nam actuel autant par son ouverture que ses limites. L’intervention sera suivie d’un débat avec le public.

Pour approfondir :

  • Brocheux, Pierre, Histoire du Viêt Nam contemporain . La nation résiliente (Fayard, 2011)
  • Catherine Earl, Vietnam’s New Middle Classes, Gender, Career, City (NIAS Press, 2014).
  • Christopher Goscha, The Penguin book of Modern Vietnam (Penguin, 2016).
  • François Guillemot, Viêt-Nam, fractures d’une nation. Une histoire contemporaine de 1958 à nos jours (La Découverte, 2018).
  • Pamela D. McElwee, Forests are Gold. Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam (University of Washington Press, 2016).
  • Minh T. N. Nguyen, Vietnam’s Socialist Servants. Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity (Routledge, 2015).
  • Keith W. Taylor, A History of the Vietnamese (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
  • Benoît de Tréglodé (dir.) Histoire du Viêt-Nam de la colonisation à nos jours (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2018).
  • Benoît de Treglodé & Stéphane Dovert (dir.), Viêt Nam contemporain (Les Indes savantes / Irasec, 2009, nouvelle édition).
  • Documents IRASEC en ligne (Hien Do & Pham Quang Minh, Leroy Nguyen, Vigne…)
  • Articles « Viêt-Nam », de Gédéon/Guillemot dans L’Asie du Sud-Est (Irasec, 2011-2016).

Lectures en complément :

Nicholas Chapman, The Beginning of a Political Doi Moi? Takeaways From the VCP’s Seventh Plenum, The Diplomat, 15/05/2018. The Vietnam Communist Party steps up efforts to reform its inner workings.

Nguyên Quynh – Hoàng Phuong/CVN, L’intégration mondiale, clé du succès économique, Le Courrier du Vietnam, 24/06/2018. C’est l’intégration internationale qui a permis au Vietnam d’obtenir des résultats encourageants, surtout dans le secteur économique. Mais si celle-ci peut créer des opportunités, elle est également source de défis. Recommandations d’économistes et de dirigeants.

VNA/CVN, IDE au Vietnam: 30 ans d’attraction, Le Courrier du Vietnam, 05/07/2018. La conférence bilan des 30 ans d’attraction des investissements directs étrangers (IDE) au Vietnam aura lieu le 4 octobre prochain.

World Bank, Country Partnership Framework for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the period FY18-FY22, 4 May 2017.

Illustration “à la une” : détail d’une affiche de propagande © FG / Virtual Saigon

MàJ : 10/07/2018

Dernières nouvelles du Viêt-Nam [presse]

[ndlr] Quelques articles à lire sur l’évolution de cette nation : liberté d’expression, maux sociaux et géopolitique.

AFP / Europe 1, “Vietnam : une chanteuse interpellée pour un slogan injurieux contre Trump“, Europe 1, 12/11/2017. L’artiste vietnamienne Mai Khoi a été interpellée après avoir brandit une pancarte injuriant Trump lors de son passage à Hanoï.

Bruno Philipp, “Face à la Chine, le repli de Trump inquiète le Vietnam“, Le Monde, 10/11/2017. Le retrait des États-Unis du Partenariat trans-Pacifique, zone de libre-échange contournant la Chine, est une très mauvaise nouvelle pour Hanoï.

David Hutt, “Down and out in Vietnam“, Asia Times, 04/11/2017. Depression, suicide and alcoholism are all on the rise as urbanization, job competition and failed expectations take a collective toll on the nation’s mental health

Kenneth Szabo, “Vietnam’s Skewed Sense of Social Justice“, Modern Diplomacy, 12/09/2017.

Harold Thibault et Bruno Philip, “Au Vietnam, la répression des blogueurs s’intensifie“, Le Monde, 21/07/2017. Après des manifestations contre l’inaction du régime dans un scandale écologique, les arrestations se multiplient.

Vincent Degenon, “Vietnam : la répression des blogueurs s’intensifie“, News Bénin Web TV, 25/07/2017.

[autres nouvelles à suivre sur RFI ]

Image “à la une” : A Vietnamese woman weeps as she waits for news about a family member who went missing during a bridge collapse © AFP/ Stringer

Tủ sách Tiếng Việt [ressources en ligne]

[ndlr] Signalement d’un site fondé en 2017 compilant des copies numérisées d’ouvrages en vietnamien publiés avant 1975. Le portail localisé à Little Saigon en Californie n’offre pas d’informations sur le projet. Près de deux millions de visiteurs à ce jour (10/07/2017) et un peu plus de 350 documents en ligne. A suivre.

Cliquer sur l’image pour accéder au site

Changing Lives in Laos: Society, Politics, and Culture in a Post-Socialist State [parution]

[ndlr] Parution d’une nouvelle publication sur le Laos contemporain sous la direction de Vatthana Pholsena et Vanina Bouté. Présentation de l’éditeur.

Changing Lives in Laos:

Society, Politics, and Culture in a Post-Socialist State

Edited by Vanina Bouté and Vatthana Pholsena

Changes in the character of the political regime in Laos after 2000, a massive influx of foreign investment, and disruptions to rural life arising from improved communications and new forms of mobility within and across the borders have produced a major transformation across the country. Witnessing these changes, a group of scholars carried out studies that document the rise of a new social, cultural and economic order. The contributions to this volume draw on original fieldwork materials and unpublished sources, and provide fresh analyses of topics ranging from the structures of power to the politics of territoriality and new forms of sociability in emerging urban spaces.

“In Changing Lives in Laos, Vanina Bouté and Vatthana Pholsena have assembled an invaluable collection of papers on Laos by key established and emerging scholars of the country. While Laos remains under-studied compared to most of the region, these chapters show an increasingly thorough engagement with people and places and a better understanding of the texture of transition and transformation.”
Jonathan Rigg, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

“This new book on Laos, edited by two leading specialists on this country, features articles by a new generation of historians, anthropologists, geographers and political scientists. Studying state formation, new economic trends, and issues such as the cultural integration of ethnic minorities and rural migration, this interesting book brilliantly demonstrates how in less than fifty years Lao society has been deeply transformed.”
Yves Goudineau, Director of the French School of Asian Studies (EFEO), Chair in Comparative Anthropology of Southeast Asia (Paris)

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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
1. Introduction
Vanina Bouté and Vatthana Pholsena

PART I: STATE FORMATION AND POLITICAL LEGITIMATION
2. The History and Evolution of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party
Martin Rathie
3. Shaping the National Topography: The Party-State, National Imageries, and Questions of Political Authority in Lao PDR
Oliver Tappe
4. ‘Special Operation Pagoda’: Buddhism, Covert Operations, and the Politics of Religious Subversion in Cold-War Laos (1957-60)
Patrice Ladwig
5. War Generation: Youth Mobilization and Socialization in Revolutionary Laos
Vatthana Pholsena
6. Socialist Pathways of Education: The Lao in East Germany
Nicole Reichert

PART II: NATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE AND AGRARIAN CHANGE
7. The Poltical Ecology of Upland/Lowland Relationships in Laos since 1975
Olivier Évrard and Ian G. Baird
8. The New ‘New Battlefield’: Capitalizing Security in Laos’ Agribusiness Landscape
Michael B. Dwyer
9. Reaching the Cities: New Forms of Network and Social Differentiation in Northern Laos
Vanina Bouté

PART III: ETHNIC MINORITIES ENGAGING WITH MODERNITY
10. Ethnic Belonging in Laos: A Politico-Historical Perspective
Grégoire Schlemmer
11. Piglets Are Buffaloes: Buddhification and the Reduction of Sacrifices on the Boloven Plateau
Guido Sprenger
12. Rubber’s Affective Economies: Seeding a Social Landscape in Northwest Laos
Chris Lyttleton and Yunxia Li

PART IV: IN SEARCH OF OPPORTUNITIES: MOVING ACROSS AND OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY
13. Migration and Mobility in Laos
Sverre Molland
14. Patterns and Consequences of Undocumented Migration from Lao PDR to Thailand
Kabmanivanh Phouxay
15. Textiles Economy in Laos: From the Household to the World
Annabel Vallard

Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Source : NUS Press

Vietnam-Indochina-Japan Relations during the Second World War [parution]

[ndlr] Parution du deuxième volet du projet de recherche de la Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), n° 25243007 intitulé “Comprehensive Study for New Developments in Japan-French Indochina-Vietnam Relations during the Second World War”.

Volume édité sous la direction de Masaya Shiraishi, Nguyen Van Khanh et Bruce M. Lockhart, Tokyo : Waseda University Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies (WIAPS), February 2017, 333 p.

 

Sur le premier volet de ce projet, voir : https://indomemoires.hypotheses.org/17760

 

 

Sophie Quinn-Judge : The Third Force in the Vietnam War: The Elusive Search for Peace 1954-75 [parution]

[ndlr] Avis de parution d’une nouvelle étude l’historienne Sophie Quinn-Judge. Présentation de l’éditeur.

It was the conflict that shocked America and the world, but the struggle for peace is central to the history of the Vietnam War. Rejecting the idea that war between Hanoi and the US was inevitable, the author traces North Vietnam’s programs for a peaceful reunification of their nation from the 1954 Geneva negotiations up to the final collapse of the Saigon government in 1975. She also examines the ways that groups and personalities in South Vietnam responded by crafting their own peace proposals, in the hope that the Vietnamese people could solve their disagreements by engaging in talks without outside interference. While most of the writing on peacemaking during the Vietnam War concerns high-level international diplomacy, Sophie Quinn-Judge reminds us of the courageous efforts of southern Vietnamese, including Buddhists, Catholics, students and citizens, to escape the unprecedented destruction that the US war brought to their people. The author contends that US policymakers showed little regard for the attitudes of the South Vietnamese population when they took over the war effort in 1964 and sent in their own troops to fight it in 1965.

A unique contribution of this study is the interweaving of developments in South Vietnamese politics with changes in the balance of power in Hanoi; both of the Vietnamese combatants are shown to evolve towards greater rigidity as the war progresses, while the US grows increasingly committed to President Thieu in Saigon, after the election of Richard Nixon. Not even the signing of the 1973 Paris Peace Agreement could blunt US support for Thieu and his obstruction of the peace process. The result was a difficult peace in 1975, achieved by military might rather than reconciliation, and a new realization of the limits of American foreign policy.

Sophie Quinn-Judge is the Associate Director of the Centre for Vietnamese History at Temple University. She was for many years a South East Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and for The Guardian. One of the foremost scholars of the Vietnam War, she taught for many years at the LSE and SOAS.

Ref. : Quinn-Judge, Sophie, The Third Force in the Vietnam War: The Elusive Search for Peace 1954-75, London, I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2017, 336 p. ISBN: 9781784535971

Source : I.B.Tauris