First Advisor
Julius McGee
Date of Award
Winter 3-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Sociology and University Honors
Department
Sociology
Language
English
Subjects
capitalism, marxism, feminist, colonialism, ecocide, genocide
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.
Recommended Citation
Gregg, Aiden, "Examining the U.S. Wars on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia as the Production of Neo-Colonialism" (2021). University Honors Theses. Paper 958.
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