Author: Bao Nguyet Dang

A PhD researcher in the Political Ecology research group at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Dang attained a BA from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam in 2002, an MA in public management and economics from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Univesite Libre de Bruxelles in 2011, and an MSc in development evaluation and management from the Institute of Development Policy at the University of Antwerp in Belgium in 2015. Dang is a development practitioner with 15+ years of experience. Since 2002, she’s worked with Vietnamese highlanders and rural villagers on the issues of access to resources, land rights, poverty alleviation, and climate change. Born in a small rural village in Vietnam, Dang’s research interest has always focused on agrarian societies and small farmers in transitional economies like Vietnam. Her research on the struggles of land-lost smallholders against dispossession and exploitation started in 2011. Her current PhD studies the emergence and the dynamics of labour regimes and cross-border labor mobility in the processes of agrarian transformation in and across Vietnam and China. Dang’s first articles on “Vietnam” were published on the Indigenous World by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs in 2009 and 2010. In 2016, her paper “Reframing the root cause of poverty and how civil society organizations can contribute to sustainable poverty reduction” was presented at the first civil society’s annual symposium in Vietnam on April 14th -15th, 2016. Her 2017’s conference paper “land grabbing from above, resistance and counter-resistance in the authoritarian state of Vietnam” was invited for the Globalizations Special issue on new insights on land grabs in the BRICS and Global South. Her email address is dang@iss.nl and nguyetbaodang@gmail.com.