1 Introduction
Jamie Gillen, Liam C. Kelley, & Phan Le Ha
PART I: Shaping Vietnamese Communities in a Globalized World
2 Transnational Life Trajectories and the Notion of Return: German-born Việt kiều (Overseas Vietnamese) Travelling to their Ancestral Homeland
Max Müller, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
3 Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression
Mirjam Le & Franziska Nicolaisen, University of Passau, Germany
4 Sharing Harmony and Solidarity Values across Generations in Australian Vietnamese Refugee Families
Giang T. T. Tran, Hanoi University of Culture, Vietnam
5 Social Capital for Local Governance beyond the State-Civil Society Dichotomy and Insights from Vietnam through the Case Study of a Community-based Upgrading Project
Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy, Lincoln University, New Zealand
PART II: History, Community, and Cultural Practices across Time and Space
6 Lạc Việt: From Ethnonym to Symbolic Ethnicity
Dinh Hong Hai, Vietnam National University-Hanoi, Vietnam & Liam C. Kelley, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
7 Ethics, Place, and Cosmopolitan Strands in Early Twentieth Century Korean and Vietnamese Literati-Intellectuals' Writings
Will Pore, Busan University, South Korea
8 Support of the Polish People's Republic for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War
Jarema Slowiak, Jagiellonian University, Poland
9 Kite Flying as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam: Community Embodiment or Appropriating Culture?
Dang Thi Phuong Anh, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam
10 From Dichotomy to Multipolarity: A Case Study of the Four Ladyship Saints Worshipping Practices in Vietnam
Tran Thi An, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam
11 Divinatory Arts and Tử Vi
Myriam Dao, Artist and Independent Scholar, France
PART III: Higher Education, Society and the Global Stage
12 Developing a Research Culture in Vietnam: A Leadership Conceptual Framework
Huong Thi Lan Nguyen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia & Timothy Marjoribanks, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
13 Higher Education in Vietnam and a New Vision for Internationalization at Home post COVID-19
Thanh Phung, VNU University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University Hanoi, Vietnam, & Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam & Phan Le Ha, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam; University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Afterword: Tamsin Barber,
Jamie Gillen is Senior Lecturer and Director of Global Studies Programme at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr Gillen specializes in human geographies of Southeast Asia, and Vietnam in particular. He is interested in cultural politics, rural-urban relations, tourism encounters, and the idiosyncrasies of fieldwork. Dr Gillen has published one monograph and numerous papers in geography, tourism, and urban studies debates. Recent research has been in agrarian change and livelihood diversification in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, resulting in a co-edited volume entitled Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective (2019, Amsterdam University Press) with Eric Thompson and Jonathan Rigg.
Liam C. Kelley is Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He is also the co-organizer of the Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue conference series. His research focuses on premodern Vietnamese and Southeast Asian history, as well as the ways in which the past is continuously re-purposed in the modern and contemporary eras. Professor Kelley also shares his historical knowledge on the Internet and YouTube under the name "Le Minh Khai blog".
PHAN Le Ha (PhD), founder of Engaging With Vietnam, is Senior Professor at Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education and Head of the International and Comparative Education Research Group at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Prior to Brunei, Prof Phan was tenured Full Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she maintains her affiliation, and Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Australia. She has taught and written extensively on English language education, identity-language-culture-pedagogy, global/international/transnational higher education, academic mobilities, and sociology of knowledge. Her research work has covered many contexts in Asia, the Asia-Pacific and the Gulf regions.
