{"title":"Militarized Sustainability: Feminist Refugee Memory and Hydropower in the Mekong Delta","authors":"Heidi Amin-Hong","doi":"10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.7.1.0119","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: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.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.7.1.0119","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: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.
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