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Volume 95 – No. 4

Vietnam’s War against COVID-19

Resting Workers outside a Quarantine Facility for Vietnamese Returnees, March 2020 (Credit: Vũ Phương Thanh)

Hy V. Luong

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, state, society, fear, discourse, meaning, Vietnam

DOI: 10.5509/2022954757

  • English Abstract
  • Chinese Abstract

Vietnam effectively controlled the COVID-19 pandemic until April 2021, and faced great challenges afterwards, partly due to the spread of the highly transmissible Delta and Omicron strains of the coronavirus. Adopting Joel Migdal’s “state-in-society” approach, this article focuses not on the impact of regime type, but on the fear-driven tension and the process of negotiation among different levels of the state apparatus and between state and society during the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam. The evolution of this pandemic was shaped not only by state measures but also by citizens’ fear-driven situational variation in norm compliance, as well as by the historical and cultural backgrounds of a society, specifically the wide sharing of war experiences and the war metaphor in Vietnamese society, and the non-negative meaning of face masks in daily life.

越南的新冠肺炎战争

关键词:新冠肺炎疫情,国家, 社会, 恐惧,话语,意义,越南。

直至2021年4月,越南有效地控制了新冠肺炎疫情,此后则在某种程度上由于具有高度传染性的德尔塔变种和奥米克戎变种的广泛传播而受到各种挑战。

采用乔∙米格代尔的“社会中的国家”理论方法,本论文并非聚焦于政体类型的影响,而是关注了新冠疫情期间越南各级国家组织之间以及国家和社会之间的受恐惧驱动的紧张关系以及相互磋商的过程。疫情在越南的演进不仅受到了政府措施的塑造,也受公民在恐惧驱使下表现出的规范服从性上的情境性差异,以及社会的历史和文化背景——特别是越南社会普遍的战争体验和战争隐喻,以及口罩在日常生活中的非负面含义——的影响。

Translated by Li Guo

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