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Acceleration in a time of war: Technology, nation, and ecology in the South China Sea, 1956–66

Journal of Southeast Asian studies (Singapore), 2020-12, Vol.51 (4), p.597-615 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Acceleration in a time of war: Technology, nation, and ecology in the South China Sea, 1956–66
Author: Sasges, Gerard
Subjects: Aquaculture ; Boats ; Commercial fishing ; Ecology ; Engines ; Exploitation ; Fish ; Fish industry ; Fisheries ; Fisheries management ; Fishing ; Fishing boats ; Fishing vessels ; Fossil fuels ; International economic relations ; Nation building ; Success ; Technology ; Vietnam War ; World War II
Is Part Of: Journal of Southeast Asian studies (Singapore), 2020-12, Vol.51 (4), p.597-615
Description: On the eve of its foundation in 1954, the Republic of Vietnam had five motorised fishing boats; 20 years later, that figure had swelled to over sixty thousand. This conversion to fossil fuels, along with associated developments like the intensified exploitation of marine ecologies and the use of new synthetic materials, form part of what has come to be called the ‘Great Acceleration’. This article follows a Japanese fisheries expert who spent six years in Vietnam in the early 1960s to explore the physical and conceptual work this process entailed, its entanglement with projects of war-making and nation-building, and the way it was both a product of and producer of the collapse of local ecologies.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0022-4634
EISSN: 1474-0680
DOI: 10.1017/S0022463420000715
Source: ProQuest Central

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