Southeast Asia and the civil society gaze : : scoping a contested concept in Cambodia and Vietnam / / edited by Gabi Waibel, Judith Ehlert and Hart N. Feuer.

• Superior document: Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia
• TeilnehmendeR: Ehlert, Judith.; Feuer, Hart, 1983-; Waibel, Gabi.
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Routledge,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies on civil society in Asia ; 3; Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"As developing countries with recent histories of isolation and extreme poverty, followed by restoration and reform, both Cambodia and Vietnam have seen new opportunities and demands for non-state actors to engage in and manage the effects of rapid socio-economic transformation. This book examines how in both countries, civil society actors and the state manage their relationship to one another in an environment that is continuously shaped and (re)constructed by changing legislation, collaboration and negotiation, advocacy and protest, and social control. Further, it explores the countries' divergent experiences whilst also uncovering the underlying basis and drivers of civil society activity that are shared by Cambodia and Vietnam. Crucially, this book engages with the contested nature of what civil society is and means, by looking at contemporary discourses and manifestations of civil society in the two countries, national-level NGOs and agencies, and translocal networks that operate in a variety of sectors, such as gender, the environment and health"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Grasping discourses, researching practices: investigating civil society in Vietnam and Cambodia; PART I Framing the contemporary civil society in Cambodia and Vietnam; 2 In search of a civil society: re-negotiating state-society relations in Cambodia; 3 Bringing past models into the present: identifying civil society in contemporary Vietnam; PART II Advocacy and political space

4 Civil society networks in Cambodia and Vietnam: a comparative analysis5 Civil society and political culture in Vietnam; 6 Enclosing women's rights in the kitchen cabinet? Interactions between the Vietnam Women's Union, civil society and the state on gender equality; 7 Civil society engagement in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Cambodia; 8 Changing gendered boundaries in rural Cambodia: community-based organizations as a platform for empowerment; 9 Mobilizing against hydropower projects: multi-scale dimensions of civil society action in a transboundary setting

PART III Traces and tendencies10 Tracing the discourses on civil society in Vietnam: a narrative from within; 11 NGOs and the illusion of a Cambodian civil society; 12 Proto civil society: pagodas and the socio-religious space in rural Cambodia; 13 Voluntary or state-driven? Community-based organizations in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam; 14 Competitive discourses in civil society: pluralism in Cambodia's agricultural development platform; 15 Conclusion: the civil society gaze; Appendix 1: country profiles: Cambodia and Vietnam; Appendix 2: Vietnamese legal documents on civil society

Glossary: Vietnamese and Khmer termsIndex