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9780197770269

The Architects of Dignity Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2024-09-24
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Vietnam has long been a crossroads of empires and thus a site of rich cross-cultural intellectual exchange. In The Architects of Dignity, Kevin Pham is the first political theorist to introduce Vietnamese political thought to debates in political theory, showing how Vietnamese thinkers challenge Western conventional wisdom. Drawing on Vietnamese and French language material, Pham traces an intergenerational debate among six influential Vietnamese intellectuals and political leaders who had competing visions for how the Vietnamese should strengthen themselves to stand up to French colonial domination. As theorists from a peripheral nation, they struggled to identify a national cultural heritage to be proud of or take guidance from. Rather than despair, they harnessed feelings of shame for their anti-colonial and nation-building projects.

In doing so, they offer conceptions of shame and dignity that depart from mainstream conceptions in existing scholarship. While postcolonial theory typically views shame as destructive false consciousness, these thinkers show how a nation can harness shame in anticolonial, productive, and self-affirming ways, namely by synthesizing Eastern and Western ideas to be architects of their own dignity. And while dignity is typically understood as something inherent in individuals, as a justification for rights, and as requiring recognition, these thinkers saw dignity as a property of nations, as rooted in the duties a nation's people embrace instead of in the qualities of persons, and as something to be asserted by the nation instead of being dependent on recognition by colonizers.

Author Biography

Kevin D. Pham is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. His scholarly work explores the history of nineteenth and twentieth century political thought, focusing on non-Western theories of democracy, colonialism, and freedom. He has special interests in Vietnam. He attained his BA in Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, his Master's in Conflict Resolution and Governance at the University of Amsterdam, and his PhD in political theory from the University of California, Riverside. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Gettysburg College. His parents were refugees from Vietnam, and he was born and raised in San Jose, California. He has lived in and frequently travels to Vietnam and France. He co-hosts a podcast about Vietnamese intellectual history called Nam Phong Dialogues.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Engines of National Shame and Indignation

PART I THE COLONIAL CONDITION

2. Phan B?i Châu's Nationalist Groundwork
3. Phan Chu Trinh's Democratic Confucianism

PART II WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH TR ADITION?

4. Nguy?n An Ninh's Tagorean Call
5. Ph?m Qu?nh's Cultural Resistance

PART III REVOLUTION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

6. H? Chí Minh's Rehumanizing Blueprint
7. Nguy?n M?nh T(u?ng's Montaignean Solace

Conclusion

Notes

Index

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