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The Scientist, the Governor, and the Planter: The Political Economy of Agricultural Knowledge in Indochina during the Creation of a “Science of Rubber,” 1900--1940 (2009)

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 3
Pages: 231--256

Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: Emergent Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Southeast Asia
Language: English

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Political economy Research Colonialism Agriculture Plastics; rubber; polymers France, colonies Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence East Asia, civilization and culture 20th century, early Indochina

Abstract From the turn of the twentieth century until shortly before the Second World War, private business collaborated with the colonial government in Indochina in the formative development of colonial agricultural science. This article focuses on that development with a particular eye to how research was conducted and influenced by the changing politics of French colonization, what was chosen as worthy of research, and how agricultural science projects were defined, structured, and funded.

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Article Anderson, Warwick (2009) Re-orienting STS: Emergent Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Southeast Asia. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (p. 163). unapi

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