The collective memory of the American War in Vietnam is the focus of a recent article by Dr. Minh Nghia-Nguyen, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at UMass Boston, and Dr. Panayota Gounari, Chair of the Department of Applied Linguistics. Their article, “Collective Remembering and Necropolitical Discourse: The American War in Vietnam Commemorated”, was published in Language in Society (Cambridge University Press). Drawing on a multimodal critical discourse analysis of forty-nine photographs taken during the war and later published in the digital edition of The New York Times for the war’s forty-second anniversary commemoration, Professors Nghia-Nguyen and Gounari explore how a “necropolitical discourse” shapes the collective remembering of the Vietnam War. The full article is available open access at the link below.

Collective remembering and necropolitical discourse: The American War in Vietnam commemorated