Forests Are Gold: Visual Campaigns of Vietnam’s Environmental Policy

06 PM, Sun 30 Aug 2026
Ném Space
18/1 Ngô Thời Nhiệm, Xuân Hòa, HCMC
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From the organizer:

How does a forest become political? Join us for a special talk with Dr. Pamela McElwee on Vietnam’s environmental policies and the visual campaigns behind them, featuring a display of propaganda posters from Dogma’s collection.

Professor in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, Dr. McElwee is the author of “Forests Are Gold,” which examines the management of Vietnam’s forests across the twentieth century, from French colonialism to the transition to market-oriented economics. The book argues that forest policy in Vietnam was rarely about ecology or conservation for nature’s sake, but a way of managing citizens and society, a process she terms “environmental rule.”

Dr. McElwee joins virtually – talk and poster study are in-person

This is the closing program of “miền trung dung / precious forest” exhibition, presented by Dogma and A Sông.