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    "title": "The \"Vietnam\" Corona-Quagmire: Rescripting Forever Wars in a Time of Chronic Crisis",
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    "abstract": "<p>This essay considers the legacies of the Viet Nam-American War through the lens of contemporary events of global scale such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The fiftieth anniversary since the end of that conflict occurs right after the cessation (but not end) of the worst socio-health crisis facing the planet and humanity in recent times. As a frame for remembering militarized Cold War histories in the face of ongoing crises and political quagmires, I consider how the Cold War specter of Viet Nam has been marshalled against biopolitical threats in the twenty-first century. That cultural and ideological rescripting reinforces racial, colonial, capitalist, and imperialist logics of control that simultaneously invite us to revisit and refashion that infamous war’s meaning. I approach the “war on coronavirus” through the prism of “Vietnam” to conceptualize what I am designating as “corona-quagmire.” By looping conflicts of the past into the cascading crises of the present future, corona-quagmire presents critical opportunities for rethinking the fraught global relations among society, self, subjects and states. From the spread of disinformation to America’s mishandling of the new coronavirus to Viet Nam’s martial response to the problem, the “Vietnam-sized” language mobilized against COVID-19 presents a means to analyze the dialectics of permanent wars, as they are reproduced within an era of endless violence. Corona-quagmire in the end shines light for scholars seeking to disentangle ongoing processes of militarization, nationalism, and empire.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "JTAS SPECIAL FORUM Thinking With and Beyond \"Vietnam\": 50 Years After the US Wars in Southeast Asia",
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            "first_name": "Long",
            "middle_name": "T.",
            "last_name": "Bui",
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            "institution": "University of California, Irvine",
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    "date_submitted": "2025-11-22T18:53:38.489000-08:00",
    "date_accepted": "2025-11-22T18:54:39.629000-08:00",
    "date_published": "2025-11-25T08:39:00-08:00",
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