| ID | 177932 |
| Title Proper | Acceleration in a time of war |
| Other Title Information | Technology, nation, and ecology in the South China Sea, 1956–66 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Sasges, Gerard |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | 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. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of South East Asian Studies Vol. 51, No.4; Dec 2020: p.597 - 615 |
| Journal Source | Journal of South East Asian Studies 2020-12 51, 4 |
| Key Words | South China Sea ; 1956–66 |