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The Power of Everyday Politics - How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy (Hardcover)
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The Power of Everyday Politics - How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy (Hardcover)
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Ordinary people's everyday political behavior can have a huge
impact on national policy: that is the central conclusion of this
book on Vietnam. In telling the story of collectivized agriculture
in that country, Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet uncovers a history of
local resistance to national policy and gives a voice to the
villagers who effected change. Not through open opposition but
through their everyday political behavior, villagers individually
and in small, unorganized groups undermined collective farming and
frustrated authorities' efforts to correct the problems.The Power
of Everyday Politics is an authoritative account, based on
extensive research in Vietnam's National Archives and in the Red
River Delta countryside, of the formation of collective farms in
northern Vietnam in the late 1950s, their enlargement during
wartime in the 1960s and 1970s, and their collapse in the 1980s. As
Kerkvliet shows, the Vietnamese government eventually terminated
the system, but not for ideological reasons. Rather,
collectivization had become hopelessly compromised and was
ultimately destroyed largely by the activities of villagers.
Decollectivization began locally among villagers themselves;
national policy merely followed. The power of everyday politics is
not unique to Vietnam, Kerkvliet asserts. He advances a theory
explaining how everyday activities that do not conform to the
behavior required by authorities may carry considerable political
weight.
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