Dr Kim Huynh
Areas of expertise
- International Relations 160607
- Political Theory And Political Philosophy 160609
- Literary Studies Not Elsewhere Classified 200599
- Australian Government And Politics 160601
Research interests
Political theory, political literature, children and armed conflict, forced migration, Vietnamese politics and society.
Biography
Kim Huynh's most recent book is a collection of political novellas entitled Vietnam as if... Tales of youth, love and destiny (ANU Press). His biography of his parents, Where the Sea Takes Us: A Vietnamese-Australian Story (HarperCollins) has attracted academic and literary acclaim, being short-listed for the Australian Society of Author’s prize and ACT book of the year. He co-authored Children and Global Conflict (Cambridge University Press) and co-edited The Culture Wars: Australian and American Politics in the 21st Century (Palgrave-McMillan).
Kim has published journal articles and book chapters on political theory, Vietnamese politics, women’s studies and refugee politics, and has written essays and opinion editorials for a range of Australian newspapers along with the BBC Vietnamese. Kim currently writes a column for the RiotACT.
He's a recipient of the ANU Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and lectures courses on international relations, political philosophy and Australian politics. He has supervised honours and PhD students in these areas.
Kim is also a part-time presenter on the ABC Radio Canberra Drive Program.
Researcher's projects
- The Vietnamese translation of Vietnam as if... Tales of youth, love and destiny.
- An article about identity politics and irregular migration in Australia (with Siobhan Neyland).
- An article on Vietnamese politics and telenovelas.
- An article about political aesthetics.
- A book about Australian and regional refugee politics since the 1980s.
Current student projects
Past and Current Student Research Topics: political biography; refugees and migration; political philosophy; children and armed conflict; Vietnam/China relations; terrorism; Asia and the West.
Publications
- Huynh, K 2015. Vietnam as if.... Tales of youth, love and destiny, ANU Press (download free ebook from http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/vietnam-as-if/)
- Huynh, Kim, D'Costa, Bina and Lee-Koo, Katrina, 2015. Children and Global Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kim's contributions include chapters on 'Children and Agency', 'Child Soldiers', 'Children in an Age of Forced Migration' and 'Conclusion: The Cradle it Rocks'.
- Huynh, Kim 2015. 'Democracy and Vietnam: Visceral Perspectives', Democratic Theory, vol. 2, no. 3, 71-8.
- Huynh, Kim. 2014. 'Australian Refugee Politics', The Far East & Australasia, Routledge. Updated annually. Coauthored with Siobhan Neyland in 2016.
- Huynh, Kim. 2014. 'The Professional' , Anthropology and Humanism, volume 39, issue 1, pp. 55-66. [Winner of the 2013 Society for Humanistic Anthropology fiction award].
- Huynh, K. and Tran Hoang Tuan 2012. "Ban ve van minh Viet Nam" (Discussing the Civility of Vietnamese) BBC Vietnamese, 24 May http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/vietnam/2012/05/120524_vietnam_civil_comment.shtml (Vietnamese). http://www.tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenews/city-diary/who-is-more-civilized-vietnamese-or-westerners-1.73447 (English).
- Huynh, K 2011. Phuong Tay nhin nguoi Chau A the nao? (How does the West view Asians?) BBC Vietnamese, 11 November. http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/vietnam/2011/11/111111_kimhuynh_west_asia.shtml (Vietnamese). http://whyilikelearningvietnamese.wordpress.com (English).
- Huynh, K 2011. Nguoi Viet can biet gi ve Phuong Tay? (What Vietnamese need to know about the West), BBC Vietnamese, 3 November. http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/vietnam/2011/11/111102_vietnamese_west_kimhuynh.shtml (Vietnamese). http://whyilikelearningvietnamese.wordpress.com (English).
- Huynh, K 2011, 'Tai sao toi thich hoc Tieng Viet (Why I like learning Vietnamese)', BBC Vietnamese, 29 July. http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/culture_social/2011/07/110729_kimhuynh_essay.shtml (Vietnamese). http://whyilikelearningvietnamese.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/vietnamese/ (English)
- Huynh, K 2010, 'Refugeeness: What's good and not so good about being persecuted and displaced?', Local Global, vol. 8, no. November 2010, pp. 52-74. http://mams.rmit.edu.au/k2gnu0t4iwu1.pdf
- Huynh, K 2009, 'One Women's Everyday Resistance: An Empowering Yet Cautionary Tale from Vietnam', in Bina D'Costa and Katrina Lee-Koo (ed.), Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, New York, United States, pp. 129-141.
- Huynh, K 2009, 'Us and them: national identity and the question of 'belonging'', in Jim George and Kim Huynh (ed.), The Culture Wars: Australian and American Politics in the 21st Century, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Australia, pp. 75-91.
- Huynh, K 2009, 'The Struggle for God', in Jim George and Kim Huynh (ed.), The Culture Wars: Australian and American Politics in the 21st Century, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Australia, pp. 92-109.
- Huynh, K 2009, ''If there is hope, it lies with the Bogans'', in Jim George and Kim Huynh (ed.), The Culture Wars: Australian and American Politics in the 21st Century, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Australia, pp. 127-141.
- George, J, Abjorensen, N & Huynh, K 2009, 'Conclusion: the culture wars reconsidered', in Jim George and Kim Huynh (ed.), The Culture Wars: Australian and American Politics in the 21st Century, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Australia, pp. 159-168.
- Huynh, K 2007, Where the Sea Takes Us: A Vietnamese-Australian Story, HarperCollins, Sydney Australia.
- Huynh, K 2004, 'Modernity and My Mum', Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 1-26.
- Huynh, K 2003, 'Fathers, Flags and Modern-Day Fanaticism: A Short Story About Cold War Grand Theories and Ordinary Vietnamese Australia People', Alternatives: Global, Local and Political, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 517-544.
