Militarized Sustainability
Feminist Refugee Memory and Hydropower in the Mekong Delta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13100367 |
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| Authors | Heidi Amin-Hong (0000-0003-4016-6892, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-119 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Verge Studies in Global Asias (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2373-5058 • E-ISSN: 2373-5066 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5749/vergstudglobasia.7.1.0119 |
| OpenAlex | W3134086817 |
| Language | EN |
Tracing the genesis of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 1966 as a product of U.S. militarism in Vietnam and Japanese imperial ambitions, this essay shows that ADB-funded energy, sustainability, and risk management projects are inseparable from the racialized and sexualized legacies of war and empire. American engagement with hydropower planning reveals how U.S. interests in energy and infrastructural development justified military escalation of the war in Vietnam and established hydropower as a symbol of modernity. Putting artist Tiffany Chung's speculative maps of Saigon in dialogue with the ADB's climate change adaptation reports, this article develops the analytic of feminist refugee memory to articulate an environmentalist perspective that incorporates feminist critiques of war and empire
Empire · Hydropower · Militarism · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Sustainability · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Highly cited | No |
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