Between War and the State: Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975 Nguyen-Marshall Van
Between War and the State: Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975 Nguyen-Marshall Van In Between War and the State, Van Nguyen-Marshall examines an array of voluntary activities, including…
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Between War and the State: Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975 Nguyen-Marshall Van
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 to 1975. 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. 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.
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