Unearthing Politics

This book examines an important socio-political challenge to the ruling party regime in Vietnam. Vietnam has been the subject of substantial controversy and challenge to the Vietnamese party regime since market reform in the 1980s, especially since the controversy over bauxite mining in the late 2000. Using the environmental dimensions of this problem to highlight a confluence of trends disrupting the nation's "encrusted politics", this book open up a space for the in-depth study of the most sensitive issues, bravest activists, and most off limit struggles with the party-state in Vietnam today.

Chapter 1. Introduction. - Chapter 2. Political Histories of Vietnamese Bauxite. - Chapter 3. Power and Limits of Embedded Advocacy: Emergence of a Public Debate. - Chapter 4. The Reemergence of the Intellectuals: The Petition of the 135. - Chapter 5. Responsive and Repressive: The Two Arms of the Party-State. - Chapter 6. Conclusion: What Comes Next.