In previous years the presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies has been published in the last issue of that year's volume. To accommodate a new, extended production schedule for each issue, presidential addresses are now published in the year following their delivery.
In his 2022 presidential address, HyV.Luong highlights the significance of familialism in Vietnam, showing how the patterns of care for children and the elderly that are apparent in household practices challenge assumptions about the pervasiveness of neoliberalism as a globalizing force that structures social changes and development agendas. In conjunction with this, Luong argues that the Vietnamese state engages with the complex cultural priorities of familialism in ways that challenge simplistic assumptions concerning ideological dogmatism. Policies of “societalization” that reflect different degrees of personal, social, and government responsibility complicate histories of development and modernization based on top-down, state-mandated collectivization,...
