Engaging With Vietnam is excited to announce the publication of four papers from the 12th Engaging With Vietnam Conference (2021) on “Engaging with Vietnam and ASEAN: Mobilities and Identities in an Age of Global Transformation.”

The papers were published in a special section of the journal Suvannabhumi: Multidisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2023) on “Globalization, Vietnam and ASEAN” and are available on the Suvannabhumi website.

The four papers and their authors are as follows:

“Vietnam and the Spector of Deglobalization” by John Walsh (Krirk University);

“China’s Digital Silk Road in Southeast Asia and Vietnam’s Responses from 2015 to 2021” by Dao D. Nguyen (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences);

“‘Say Hello to Vietnam!’: A Multimodal Analysis of British Travel Blogs” by Thuy T. H. Tran (Vietnam National University, Hanoi);

“Reframing Loss: Chinese Diaspora Identity in K. H. Lim’s Written in Black” by Hannah Ming Yit Ho (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)

These four papers are preceded by an editors’ introduction on “Negotiating Globalization and its Aftermath in Vietnam and ASEAN: Theory, Practice, Representation, and Identity” by Liam C. Kelley (University Brunei Darussalam), Catherine Earl (RMIT Vietnam), and Jamie Gillen (University of Auckland). That piece is preceded by an introduction to the special section by the editor-in-chief of Suvannabhumi, Professor Victor T. King.

Editors Kelley, Earl, and Gillen worked with the authors to strengthen their papers for publication through the Engaging With Vietnam publication initiative.

The journey from conference presentation to published article is long and challenging. We wish to congratulate the authors and thank the editors. Great job, everyone!!!