Vietnam, A War, Not a Country

Professor Ron Eyerman (Yale and Lund University) is the author of Is this America? Katrina as Cultural Trauma (University of Texas Press, 2015); Memory, Trauma and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); and The Making of White American Identity (Oxford University Press, 2022). Todd Madigan is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and author of works on cultural trauma and the role of narrative in social life. Magnus Ring is a senior lecturer in sociology at Lund University. He has conducted research on social movements and collective protests, concept formation of “social movement”, welfare transition processes and on experiences of becoming “a dependent subject” among elderly in France and Sweden. Recent research is about representations of war and atrocities in public official spaces.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Cultural Trauma and the American-Vietnamese War (By Todd Madigan), Chapter 2 Cultural Trauma and Vietnamese Arenas of Memory (By Magnus Ring), Chapter 3 Cultural Trauma and American Arenas of Memory (By Ron Eyerman), Chapter 4 Journey from the Fall (By Todd Madigan), Chapter 5 Cultural Trauma and Vietnamese-American Arenas of Memory (By Todd Madigan), Chapter 6 Conclusion: War, Trauma, and Beyond (By Ron Eyerman).

“Vietnam: A War, Not a Country by Ron Eyerman, Todd Madigan, and Magnus Ring is an ambitious work which seeks to comprehensively and systematically examine the cultural trauma and memory discourses of what the authors call the “American-Vietnamese War."" Y Thien Nguyen, H-Diplo, Review Essay 577, July 2024.