Anthropology of State/Rural Population Relations. Local Participationand Civil Society in Development Projects in Northern Vietnam ; Anthropologie des relations État-population rurale. Participation locale et société civile dans les projets de développement au nord du Vietnam
International audience ; Anthropology of State/Rural Population Relations. Local Participationand Civil Society in Development Projects in Northern VietnamAbstract: Since the 1990s, the Vietnamese government has launched thousands developmentprojects across all sectors to reduce poverty and modernize the countryside. Theresults are everywhere very visible : new roads and infrastructures, renovated markets,etc. But the authorities also highlight the high level of participation of local populations(the "base") in all these projects. An effective means of showing to the internationalinstitutions which finance a large part of these projects that Vietnam brilliantly fulfillsthe criteria of the UN Millennium Goals (2000) of "governance, participation, ownership,empowerment and accountability. But on the level of communes and families, participationis experienced in a very different way. The great Program for Socio-economicDevelopment in Communes faced with Extreme Difficulties (1998-2015) which appliesto several thousand communes throughout the country, allows us to study the specificrelations between peasants and the State in Vietnam in the North of the country. Severalquestions will provide precise anthropological elements on the positioning of local ethnicpopulations in their interactions with projects: How can the participation of local populationsbe expressed in a clearly top-down system? How does the diversity of the formsof participation observed inform us about the extent of local political actions ? Who arethe real actors in local participation ? In the end, it is the forms of articulation between atop-down development model with a "totalizing" aim and the place of rural civil societyin Vietnam that will be questioned. ; Résumé : Depuis les années 1990, l'État vietnamien a lancé des milliers de projetsde développement tous secteurs confondus pour réduire la pauvreté et moderniserles campagnes du pays. Les résultats sont partout très visibles : nouvelles routes etinfrastructures, marchés rénovés, etc. Mais les ...