by Disha Karnad Jani
In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Kevin Pham, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, about his recent book, The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford University Press, 2024).
In his book, Pham traces the evolution of Vietnamese political thought through six figures, Phan Bội Châu, Phan Chu Trinh, Nguyễn An Ninh, Phạm Quỳnh, Hồ Chí Minh, and Nguyễn Mạnh Tường. He explores how across the 19th and 20th centuries, as generations of Vietnamese thinkers responded to and organized against French and US colonialism, they debated distinct and powerful ways to conceptualize politics, mobilize their people, organize their society, and build a nation through decolonization.
Kevin Pham is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, and the author of The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Disha Karnad Jani is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Research Training Group (RTG) “World Politics” at Universität Bielefeld. Her current book project is an intellectual history of the League Against Imperialism, 1927–1937. She is the co-host of In Theory, the podcast of the JHI Blog.
Featured image: Cover of The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford University Press, 2024).
