Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA Philippines), Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA), UP Asian Center, UP Political Science Department  and UP Third World Studies Center

invite you to a lecture-discussion on:

Repression and Toleration of Political Dissent in Contemporary Vietnam

Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet

2:00 p.m., Thursday, 1 December 2011
Bulwagang Sala’am, UP Asian Center
University of the Philippines Diliman

ABSTRACT: This paper synthesizes Vietnamese dissidents’ main criticisms and objectives and then analyzes state authorities’ actions towards them. The analysis reveals a degree of toleration by authorities and a lack of uniformity in their repression.

Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University. His researches focus on politics in the Philippines and Vietnam.  His books include Beyond Hanoi: Local Government in Vietnam (2004), co-edited with David G. Marr; The Power of Everyday Politics: How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy (2005); Everyday Politics in the Philippines: Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village (2002); and, The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines (1977).  A recent article is “Workers’ Protests in Contemporary Vietnam (with Some Comparisons to Those in the Pre-1975 South),” (2010)  Journal of Vietnamese Studies 5:1.

This lecture commemorates the 56th anniversary of the UP Asian Center.

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