Avuncularity: Morality of Vietnamese Local Cadres in the Age of Self Governance
Friday, February 5th, 2010
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, February 5, 2010 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
Series
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Description
In this presentation I will talk about the discourse of “good” leaders, which is discussed at the village level in the post-collective period or the age of self governance in contemporary Vietnam. We can find in the discourse the process of negotiation between paternalism and egalitarian ethics, which make up the collectivity of the village as a locus of “good governance”. Life stories of local cadres of a village in Ha Tinh province, Central Vietnam will be intensively analyzed.
Atsufumi KATO is a visiting researcher at the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto (from Jan 2010 to Aug 2010). He is a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Nanzan University in Japan. He has a Ph. D. in Human Sciences from Osaka University where he wrote a dissertation entitled Ethnography of Governance and Morality: Villagers of the Central Vietnam in the Age of Self-Governance (2009, in Japanese). His research projects focus on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Rotating Saving and Credit Associations (ROSCAs), mobilization, the ideology of participatory democracy and life histories of local cadres in the Vietnamese villages.
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