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DR Maya Nguyen's Outputs (6)

Ideology as social practice: childhood and the politics of everyday in the Vietnam war (2025)
Journal Article
Nguyen, M. A. (online). Ideology as social practice: childhood and the politics of everyday in the Vietnam war. War and Society, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2025.2503639

This article traces the presence of ideology in everyday lives of Vietnamese children and youth in the lead-up and during the Vietnam War, focusing on the 1955−75 period. I draw on the notion of ideology as embodied practice, present in individuals’... Read More about Ideology as social practice: childhood and the politics of everyday in the Vietnam war.

Review of: Asian military evolutions: Civil–military relations in Asia By Alan Chong, Nicole Jenne (Eds.), Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2023. pp. 366. £90.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1529229318 (2024)
Journal Article
Nguyen, M. A. (2024). Review of: Asian military evolutions: Civil–military relations in Asia By Alan Chong, Nicole Jenne (Eds.), Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2023. pp. 366. £90.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1529229318. Asian Politics & Policy, 16(1), 133-135. https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12726

Parenting Patriots: Filial Piety, Family Socialization, and Insurgency in the Vietnam War (2023)
Journal Article
Nguyen, M. A. (2023). Parenting Patriots: Filial Piety, Family Socialization, and Insurgency in the Vietnam War. Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 18(4), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2023.18.4.1

This paper explores two ways in which family, specifically parents, predisposed Vietnamese children to join the National Liberation Front. Firstly, I found that family often socialized children into a certain political orientation, and children were... Read More about Parenting Patriots: Filial Piety, Family Socialization, and Insurgency in the Vietnam War.

‘Little people do little things’: the motivation and recruitment of Viet Cong child soldiers (2022)
Journal Article
Nguyen, M. A. (2022). ‘Little people do little things’: the motivation and recruitment of Viet Cong child soldiers. Critical Studies on Security, 10(1), 30-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2022.2073740

Children have comprised a significant part of past and present military conflicts; however, attempts to understand their motivations have generally focused on coerced recruitment. When children join military groups without physical coercion, they are... Read More about ‘Little people do little things’: the motivation and recruitment of Viet Cong child soldiers.