Southeast Asia and the Civil Society Gaze

Abstract

1.Grasping discourses, researching practices: Civil society in Vietnam and Cambodia, Gabi Waibel 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, Joakim Ojendal 3. Bringing past models into the present: Identifying civil society in contemporary Vietnam, Bach Tan Sinh Part II: Advocacy and Political Space 4. Civil society networks in Cambodia and Vietnam - A comparative analysis, Andrew Wells-Dang 5. Civil Society and Political Culture in Vietnam, Nadine Reis 6. Enclosing women's rights in a kitchen cabinet? Interactions between the Vietnam Women's Union, civil society and the state on gender equality, Nora Pistor and Le Thi Quy 7. Civil society engagement in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Cambodia, Frederic Bourdier 8. Changing Gendered boundaries in rural Cambodia, Ayako Hiwasa 9. Mobilising Against Hydropower Projects: Multi-scale Dimensions of Civil Society Action in a Transboundary Setting, Thim Ly Part III: Traces and Tendencies 10. Tracing the Discourses on Civil Society in Vietnam - A Narrative from Within, Phuong Le Trong 11. NGOs and the Illusion of a Cambodian Civil Society, Sivhuoch Ou and Sedara Kim 12. Proto Civil Society: Space, Pagodas and the Socio-religious Realm in Rural Cambodia, Judith Ehlert 13. Voluntary or State-Driven? Community-based Organizations in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, Gabi Waibel and Simon Benedikter 14. Competitive Discourses in Civil Society: Pluralism in Cambodia's Agricultural Development Platform, Hart Feuer 15. Conclusion: The Civil Society Gaze, Hart Feuer, Phuong Le Trong and Judith Ehlert