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Researcher's projects
Public Political Criticism in Contemporary Vietnam
Biography
Growing up in a small town on the plains of Montana (USA), Ben was surrounded by working class relatives and friends for whom political discussion and debate were part of life. That background helps to account for his research interests until today. After graduating from the local public high school, he earned degrees at Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington) and the University of Wisconsin (Madison), then taught for nearly twenty years at the University of Hawai'i (Honolulu) before joining the ANU in 1992.
Career highlights
Faculty member, University of Hawaii (1971-91); faculty member, ANU (1992-present); working with industrious graduate students; various fellowships and awards for research and teaching; and living in and doing research in the Philippines and Vietnam.
Research interests
Comparative politics; Southeast Asia; Asian studies.
Fascinated with how ordinary people deal with big pressures on their lives, Ben has emphasized research on agrarian politics in Southeast Asia. Closely related is his study of interactions between ordinary people and authorities or other elites. He is currently researching local reactions to major recent national policies in the Philippines and Vietnam.
Expertise Areas
- Comparative Government and Politics
- Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
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Projects
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AusAID Vietnam Updates 2005-2007.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, AusAID
31/05/08 → 10/12/10
Project: Research
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Public Political Criticism in Contemporary Vietnam
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/07 → 31/12/10
Project: Research
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Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation
Kerkvliet, B., 2019, 1 ed. United States of America: Cornell University Press. 246 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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An Approach for Analysing State-Society Relations in Vietnam
Kerkvliet, B., 2018, In: Sojourn. 33, S, p. S156-S198Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Living Next to the Giant: The Political Economy of Vietnam's Relations with China under Doi Moi
Kerkvliet, B., 2017, In: Asian-Pacific Economic Literature. 31, 2, p. 176-177Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Democracy and Vietnam
Kerkvliet, B., 2015, Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Democratization. William Case (ed.). 1st ed. Abingdon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, p. 426-441Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Regime Critics: Democratization Advocates in Vietnam, 1990s-2014
Kerkvliet, B., 2015, In: Critical Asian Studies. 47, 3, p. 359-387Research output: Contribution to journal › Article