Lagendijk, Vincent (Author)
History and Technology
Volume: 35
Issue: 3
Pages: 316-337
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.
...MoreArticle Axel Jansen; John Krige; Jessica Wang (2019) Empires of Knowledge: Introduction. History and Technology (pp. 195-202).
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