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Making the Mekong: Nature, region, postcoloniality.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making the Mekong: Nature, region, postcoloniality./
Author:	Wong, Soo Mun Theresa.
Description:	179 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-11, Section: A, page: 4135.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-11A.
Subject:	Asian Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3425308
ISBN:	9781124261034

Making the Mekong: Nature, region, postcoloniality.
Wong, Soo Mun Theresa.

Making the Mekong: Nature, region, postcoloniality. - 179 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-11, Section: A, page: 4135.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2010.

My dissertation examines the making of the Mekong region as an object of development. It makes three central arguments: One, that the region is not simply a given space of unity, but one whose characteristics, nodes of power and connections are forged by its very production as a historical and geographical object. Second, I argue that 'nature' and 'development' become enrolled in powerful, transformative ways in the production of the region. Third, the making of the object called the Mekong, has effects on present practices of development and resistance. The first two arguments are interwoven in the first three chapters. Chapter 1 considers the Mekong's nature as produced within the texts of a French colonial expedition of the Mekong River between 1866 and 1868. In Chapter 2, I read the plans and texts of a multi-million dollar, international effort that converged on the Mekong river basin, one that attempted to transform it into a veritable Tennessee Valley Authority. I argue that this project, read through the valences of 'nature' and 'development', set apart and 'enframed' the Mekong as a space for intervention, one that continues today. In Chapter 3, I focus on the creation of the hegemony of development in the Mekong Project through the work of the geographer, the late Gilbert White, and the authors of an emerging global 'integrated river basin management' initiative. The remaining chapters -- Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 -- are snapshots of two moments in the contemporary politics of development in the now-enframed 'Mekong'. Chapter 4 argues that the regionalization imperative and implementation of the Nam Theun II hydropower project in Central Laos helped to create the conditions of possibility for plans to build eight dams on the Lower Mekong mainstem. In Chapter 5, I explore the interactions between civil society, the Mekong River Commission and states in response to the mainstem dam plans. I argue that the settling of the Mekong as a space of development places a range of limits and possibilities in the negotiation of the costs and benefits of doing development.

ISBN: 9781124261034Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669375
Asian Studies.

Making the Mekong: Nature, region, postcoloniality.
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