First Advisor

Julius McGee

Date of Award

11-21-2020

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Sociology and University Honors

Department

Sociology

Language

English

Subjects

United States -- Relations – Indochina, Indochina -- Relations -- United States, Imperialism, Capitalism, Political culture

DOI

10.15760/honors.982

Abstract

I interrogate the colonial and neo-colonial histories of the U.S. wars on Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos within the context of racialized and gendered labor accumulation, the production of difference through violence as a legitimation of colonial extraction, and ongoing neoliberal economic coercion. I examine genocide and ecocide as interdependent processes in the production of dependency and underdevelopment. I reject a common narrative of temporal and spatial disconnection which separates the wars from current economics and examine the violences which both produce and result from an economy based on growth.

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Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34638

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