Law and civil society in Cambodia and Vietnam

A gramscian perspective

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3986154
AutoresIngrid Landau (0000-0002-4328-6147, The University of Melbourne, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen38
Número2
Páginas244-258
Fecha de publicación2008-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00472330701822322
OpenAlexW1991858120
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas35

Commentators have long struggled to understand state-society relations in Asia within the framework of the dominant liberal-democratic conceptualisation of civil society. This article examines the relevance of Antonio Gramsci's theory of civil society for understanding contemporary Cambodia and Vietnam, with reference to both legal and social frameworks. Such an analysis illuminates important aspects of state-society relations in Southeast Asia that tend to be overlooked by dominant liberal and Marxist perspectives. This article argues, however, that the utility of Gramsci's conception of civil society for understanding state-society relations in Cambodia and Vietnam, by retaining the notion of civil society as a realm associatively separate from the state, is limited

Civil society · Democracy · Marxist philosophy · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realm · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Cambodian History and Society · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies