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11 (2) 2021

Civil society action: Another formation of civil society in Vietnam (The case studies of environmental protection in Dong Nai River Basin, Vietnam)


Author - Affiliation:
Tran Tu Van Anh - Ho Chi Minh City Open University , Vietnam
Corresponding author: Tran Tu Van Anh - anh.ttv@ou.edu.vn
Submitted: 21-05-2021
Accepted: 04-12-2021
Published: 21-12-2021

Abstract
Most research on civil society in Vietnam tends to equate civil society with registered civil society organizations. This seems to provide an inadequate understanding of the civil society in Vietnam. To fill this gap, this research adopts the action-based approach that underlines civil society action-another formation of civil society in Vietnam. This approach is examined via the contrast cases between a foreign-invested company and a state-owned enterprise that were a better understanding about the formation and contribution of civil society action on Vietnam’s environmental issue. My findings confirmed that civil society in Vietnam is not only in the form of organizations but also the action via utilizing the chain of activities based on the voluntariness in public space toward common interest and it exists in the Vietnamese color. At the end of this article, I will discuss the implications of this study for the effective contributions of civil society in Vietnam.

Keywords
civil society; civil society action; Dong Nai River Basin; environmental protection; Vietnam

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Tran, T. V. A. (2021). Civil society action: Another formation of civil society in Vietnam (The case studies of environmental protection in Dong Nai River Basin, Vietnam). Ho Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science – Social Sciences, 11(2), 108-124. doi:10.46223/HCMCOUJS.soci.en.11.2.1887.2021


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