Article ID: CBB285282788

Streams of Knowledge: River Development Knowledge and the TVA on the River Mekong (2019)

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Lagendijk, Vincent (Author)


History and Technology
Volume: 35
Issue: 3
Pages: 316-337


Publication Date: 2019
Edition Details: Special Issue: Empires of Knowledge
Language: English

This article revisits how plans for the development of the Southeast Asian river Mekong took the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as a template. Existing literature focuses on the role of the United States administration, seeing their TVA-related activities as an internationalization of New Deal policies. This article, however, argues that the role of regional actors like the Mekong Committee, and of international organizations (IOs) such as the United Nations and the World Bank, was also essential. It shows that both regional actors as well as IOs cross-fertilized American knowledge with indigenous and colonial knowledge in plans for developing the Mekong.

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Authors & Contributors
Scott Rozelle
Blanc, Jacob
Vatikiotis, Michael
Amaeshi, Kenneth
Idemudia, Uwafiokun
Féaux de la Croix, Jeanne
Concepts
Economic development
Dams
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Development aid
Economic history
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Southeast Asia
China
Brazil
Mozambique
Kentucky (U.S.)
Institutions
Tennessee Valley Authority
Pan American Health Organization
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