Archives par mot-clé : Viêt-Nam

The passing of Dr. Võ Quý, “professor Bird” (1929-2017) by Pamela McElwee

[ndlr] Le professeur Võ Quý est décédé le 10 janvier 2017. Rappel biographique de Pamela McElwee publié avec son aimable autorisation.

Dr. Võ Quý was born December 31, 1929 in Ha Tinh Province.  He began his education in China during the Franco-Vietnam war, returning to Vietnam in 1954 where he was part of a group that founded the University of Hanoi on the site of the old Université Indochinoise. Trained as an ornithologist, he obtained his PhD from Moscow University in the 1960s. Dr. Quy spent his career at Hanoi University of Science (later Vietnam National University) teaching zoology and biology, and founding the first environmental studies program through the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, established in 1985. He maintained an active fieldwork regime, equipped with his constant binoculars, well into his late 70s. For many years Dr. Quy hosted a popular TV show on VTV about the environment and was often recognized by schoolchildren as “Professor Bird (Giáo sư Chim)”. Dr. Quy received many awards throughout his lifetime, including the 2003 Blue Planet Prize and a 2008 Heroes of the Environment award from Time Magazine.

His research and writings on birds, biodiversity, sustainable development, Agent Orange, and in more recent years, climate change, show the breadth of his interests; his 2 volume The Birds of Vietnam remains a classic in this field. In addition to his research, he actively influenced the national government in many policy areas, such as establishing a protected areas system (he was a strong influence on General Giap, who served as State Science Committee head for many years) and sought and supported many development projects, including to relocate or reintroduce endangered species like sarus cranes, to reforest mangroves and other vegetation blighted by Agent Orange, to bring sustainable development to his home province of Ha Tinh, and to get Vietnam to sign international agreements for wetlands and migratory birds. It is no understatement to say that without Dr. Quy, there would likely be fewer parks, fewer species, fewer researchers, and fewer young people interested in the environment in Vietnam. He lived up to the promise of his name Quý.

In 2016, in celebration of his life, a collected volume titled “Môi trường và đa dạng sinh học” (Environment and Biodiversity) was published by the Vietnam National University Press. It includes Dr. Quý s selected papers (scientific and others) and then a number of newspaper and other articles by other authors about his work in English and other languages.

Dr. Pamela McElwee

Source : VSG

Voir également :

Viêt-Nam, musique traditionnelle avec Tran Quang Hai et Bach Yen [film de Bui Xuân Quang]

Pour bien terminer l’année 2016 : “En 2009, Bui Xuan Quang a réalisé pour Paris Vietnam Productions des Variations sur la musique vietnamienne par le musicologue TRAN QUANG HAI avec la voix de BACH YEN. Nguyen Van Dong est à la caméra, Blandine Brière a assuré le son”. Vidéo mise en ligne le 19 décembre 2016.

 

UQÀM : Phi-Vân Évelyne Nguyen, lauréate du prix de la meilleure thèse de doctorat

[ndlr] Félicitations à notre collègue Phi-Vân pour ce prix thèse bien mérité et aux autres personnes sélectionnées pour cette récompense annuelle de la Faculté des sciences humaines de l’Université du Québec à Montréal.

Prix de la meilleure thèse de doctorat

Phi-Vân Évelyne Nguyen (Ph. D. histoire, 2015) a été récompensée pour sa recherche intitulée Les résidus de la guerre: la mobilisation des réfugiés du nord pour un Vietnam non communiste (1954-1965). Sa thèse est l’aboutissement d’une étude patiente et minutieuse l’ayant menée au Vietnam, en France et aux États-Unis, sur les traces des quelque 800 000 personnes qui, en 1954, choisirent de quitter la zone communiste du pays, dans le nord, pour rejoindre ce que l’on désignait à l’époque comme le «monde libre». La chercheuse a étudié le parcours politique et culturel de ces réfugiés, depuis leur arrivée dans le sud du Vietnam, en 1954, jusqu’au déclenchement de la guerre, en 1965. Grâce à deux bourses postdoctorales du CRSH et de la Fondation suisse pour la recherche scientifique, Phi-Vân Évelyne Nguyen poursuit actuellement ses recherches à l’Université Cornell, aux États-Unis.

Source : Actualités UQAM (24/11/2016)

Résumé en anglais :

Phi Vân’s dissertation, “Les résidus de la guerre, La mobilisation des réfugiés du nord pour un Vietnam non-communiste, 1954–1965″ [War Residues: The Mobilization of Northern Refugees for a non-Communist Vietnam, 1954–1965] analyzes the political and cultural consequences of the migration of more than 800,000 Vietnamese who left the North to regroup into South following the 1954 Geneva ceasefire. Using archival documents collected in Vietnam, the United States and France, the dissertation shows that one important consequence of the migration was to radicalize non-Communist nationalism. Many migrants identified as “refugees of Communism” and considered they were personally tied to the fate of the Vietnamese nation since the Geneva partition. As a consequence, the 1954 refugees exhorted everyone within Vietnam and beyond to fight back Communism and reunite the Vietnamese nation.

Sur ce sujet voir : https://indomemoires.hypotheses.org/20609

MSU Vietnam Group Archive : South Vietnam 1955-1962

[ndlr] Présentation en ligne du centre d’archives sur le Viêt-Nam de l’Université du Michigan (MSU, Michigan State University). Une mine pour la recherche sur la (première) République du Viêt-Nam 1955-1963.

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MSU Vietnam Group Archive

The MSU Vietnam Group Archive includes roughly 80,000 pages of digitized documents, maps, and images. Most of these materials date from 1955-1962, when Michigan State University led a range of US-funded technical assistance programs in South Vietnam for the purpose of producing a stable non-Communist ally in Southeast Asia.

These materials contain rare and valuable information about politics, economy, and society in South Vietnam during the critical decade from the country’s formation in 1954 to the intensification of the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s. During this time, MSU-led programs in rural development generated significant information about land tenure, crop yields, and market structures in South Vietnam’s rural areas. MSU’s training programs for new political administrators produced hundreds of detailed biographical files on South Vietnamese political classes, with information about their geographic origins, socio-economic backgrounds, and educational histories.  MSU’s police training programs generated detailed material about the structure and administration of the regime’s security forces. Finally, MSU officials also produced a range of research studies and training manuals, as well as collecting a significant amount of local materials such as newspaper clippings, election posters, photographs, and many others.

The MSU Vietnam Group Archive will give students and scholars greater insight into the study of the social and economic history of Vietnam, the transition from colonial to post-colonial states and economies, American development programs in the Cold War era, and the transformation of American higher education in the mid-twentieth century.

Source : Vietnam Project MSU

Nguyen, Hai Hong : Political Dynamics of Grassroots Democracy in Vietnam [parution]

[ndlr] Avis de parution. Présentation de l’éditeur.

haihongnguyen_political-dynamicsofgrassroots-democracyinvietnamIn Political Dynamics of Grassroots Democracy in Vietnam, Hai Hong Nguyen investigates the correlation between independent variables and grassroots democracy to demonstrate that grassroots democracy has created a mutually empowering mechanism for both the party-state and the peasantry.

Hai Hong Nguyen is a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. He holds a Masters in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from Lund University, Sweden, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Queensland, Australia. He has been teaching international human rights law, international relations, and politics in Vietnam and Australia.

Review :

‘Hai Hong Nguyen’s Political Dynamics of Grassroots Democracy in Vietnam is a path-breaking study of Vietnam’s attempt to apply its concept of grassroots democracy to local government in response to rural unrest in the late 1990s. Based on field work in Vietnam, it represents a major milestone in the study of politics in Vietnam and will be the foundation for all future studies on political change in Vietnam.’ – Carlyle A. Thayer, Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia

Source : Palgrave

★ ★ ★

[Nguyen, Hai Hong est aussi le coauteur avec Pham Quang Minh d’un article récent sur le processus de démocratisation du Viêt-Nam :]

Hai Hong Nguyen and Minh Quang Pham. “Democratization in Vietnam’s Post-Doi Moi One-Party Rule: Change from Within, Change from the Bottom to the Top, and Possibilities”. In Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo, Boike Rehbien, and Surichai Wungaeo (Ed.), Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia: Challenges, Responses and Alternative Futures, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

The analysis in this chapter shows that Vietnam is undergoing a process of democratization that is driven by Đổi Mới. While the authors concur with many others that political reforms are taking place more slowly than economic liberalization, the authors contend that these reforms will eventually materialize. The question of regime change in Vietnam, from one-party rule to a multiparty system, lies beyond the scope of this chapter, as regime change is influenced by myriad factors, including citizens’ emotions.

The chapter focuses on 3 questions: (1) What are the reforms and actual changes that have taken place in Vietnam in the last three decades since the CPV officially introduced the Đổi Mới policy in the late 1980s? (2) How are these reforms and changes significant to the life of the people? (3) What are the latest developments that could have an impact on Vietnamese politics at present and in the future? The analysis, which focuses on three areas, namely economic liberalization, political reforms, and the emergence of civil society, shows that even under the rule of one single party, democratic institutions do exist and are continuously being reformed in order to respond to pressures from within society.

The authors argue that democratization is occurring in Vietnam’s one-party authoritarian regime, but it is strictly controlled and limited to cautious political experiments and reforms under pressure from within the party and society. Based on the analysis, the authors characterize this process as change from within, change from the bottom to the top, and slow but steady change, in contrast to democratization processes in other places that occur quickly but are unsustainable, perhaps even resulting in chaos. The authors label this process as democratization with Vietnamese characteristics.

Source : Palgrave

Facebooker Hồ Hải bị bắt [VnExpress]

[ndlr] Confirmation de l’arrestation hier du blogueur Ho Hai sur VnExpress.

Facebooker Hồ Hải bị bắt

Ông Hồ Hải bị nhà chức trách cáo buộc phát tán tài liệu chống phá Nhà nước trong thời gian dài.

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Ông Hồ Hải.

Cơ quan An ninh điều tra Công an TP HCM hôm 2/11 bắt giữ ông Hồ Văn Hải (52 tuổi, bác sĩ) tại phòng khám của ông trên đường Kha Vạn Cân, phường Linh Tây, quận Thủ Đức.

Nhà chức trách cho rằng, ông Hồ Hải bị phát hiện đang phát tán những thông tin, tài liệu có nội dung chống Nhà nước trên Internet. Hành vi này của ông Hồ Hải đã bị cơ quan điều tra theo dõi trong thời gian dài trước đó.

Ông được biết đến là chủ tài khoản Facebook Hồ Hải hay Blog BS Hồ Hải. Gần 30 năm trước ông tốt nghiệp ngành Y tại TP HCM, công tác tại Bệnh viện Chợ Rẫy từ năm 1993 đến 2001.

Cảnh sát đang làm rõ cáo buộc với ông này.

Nhật Vy

Source : VnExpress, 03/11/2016.