Jamie Gillen is Senior Lecturer and Director of Global Studies Programme at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr Gillen specializes in human geographies of Southeast Asia, and Vietnam in particular. He is interested in cultural politics, rural-urban relations, tourism encounters, and the idiosyncrasies of fieldwork. Dr Gillen has published one monograph and numerous papers in geography, tourism, and urban studies debates. Recent research has been in agrarian change and livelihood diversification in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, resulting in a co-edited volume entitled Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective (2019, Amsterdam University Press) with Eric Thompson and Jonathan Rigg.

This transdisciplinary edited book explores new developments and perspectives on global Vietnam, touching on aspects of history, identity, transnational mobilities, heritage, belonging, civil society, linguistics, education, ethnicity, and worship practices. Derived from the Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue conference series, this cutting-edge collection presents new scholarship and also represents new ways of knowing global Vietnam. Over the past 10 years, knowledge production about Vietnam has diversified in various ways as globalization, the internationalization of higher education, and the digital revolution have transformed the world, as well as Vietnam. Whereas as late as a decade ago, knowledge about Vietnam was still largely the preserve of scholars in Vietnam and a coterie of related experts outside of the country at a select few universities, today we find scholars working on Vietnam in myriad contexts. This transformation has introduced new voices and new perspectives, which this book champions. A critical text engaging a range of historical and contemporary debates about Vietnam, this book is an indispensable volume for the Southeast Asian Studies student and scholar in the humanities and social sciences.

1 Introduction.- 2 Transnational Life Trajectories and the Notion of Return: German-born Vi¿t ki¿u (Overseas Vietnamese) Travelling to their Ancestral Homeland.- 3 Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression.- 4 Sharing Harmony and Solidarity Values across Generations in Australian Vietnamese Refugee Families.- 5 Social Capital for Local Governance beyond the State-Civil Society Dichotomy and Insights from Vietnam through the Case Study of a Community-based Upgrading Project.- 6 L¿c Vi¿t: From Ethnonym to Symbolic Ethnicity.- 7 Ethics, Place, and Cosmopolitan Strands in Early Twentieth Century Korean and Vietnamese Literati-Intellectuals' Writings .- 8 Support of the Polish People's Republic for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.- 9 Kite Flying as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam: Community Embodiment or Appropriating Culture?.- 10 From Dichotomy to Multipolarity: A Case Study of the Four Ladyship Saints Worshipping Practices in Vietnam.- 11 Divinatory Arts and T¿ Vi.- 12 Developing a Research Culture in Vietnam: A Leadership Conceptual Framework.- 13 Higher Education in Vietnam and a New Vision for Internationalization at Home post COVID-19.- Afterword.- Index.