2022
DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12451
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Construing and constructing the South China Sea beyond state‐led environmentalism: Vernacularizing geographical, geopolitical and sociotechnical imaginaries of territory

Abstract: During the 2010s, the South China Sea (SCS) became a geopolitical flashpoint over the sovereignty of the Paracels and Spratlys. China envisioned its transformation of coral reefs into military bases and island cities as an SCS 'green construction' project. This article analyses how the SCS is discursively construed and practically constructed as maritime national territory, by mobilizing fishing legacies and extending state limits through 'state-led environmentalism' rhetoric. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork… Show more

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“…In the articles that follow, this dynamic of co‐production and its connection to contested imaginaries of development has been explored through different conceptual modes and empirical contexts. Roszko's (2023) paper spotlights the interplay between geopolitical and scientific expertise as co‐produced knowledges through an exploration of the discursive construction of the South China Sea. Arnez (2023) contributes an investigation of the networked processes and procedures that co‐produce ecological knowledge in the space between sea and coast in the Straits of Melaka.…”
Section: This Special Sectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the articles that follow, this dynamic of co‐production and its connection to contested imaginaries of development has been explored through different conceptual modes and empirical contexts. Roszko's (2023) paper spotlights the interplay between geopolitical and scientific expertise as co‐produced knowledges through an exploration of the discursive construction of the South China Sea. Arnez (2023) contributes an investigation of the networked processes and procedures that co‐produce ecological knowledge in the space between sea and coast in the Straits of Melaka.…”
Section: This Special Sectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The bridging of human and environmental geography is a proclaimed strength of the SJTG . This issue presents a special section on ecological knowledge production in Southeast Asia (Farnan et al ., 2023; Arnez, 2023; Kamiński, 2023; Roszko, 2023). In addition, it also contains four physical and environmental geography papers.…”
Section: Category Best Graduate Student Paper Best Overall Papermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The museum was intended to display their grandfather’s navigational guide and show the process of turning fossilised giant clamshells into fine artwork. The centuries-old fossilised shells of highly endangered bivalve molluscs ( Tridacninae subfamily) that are on a brink of extinction were extracted by Tanmen fishermen from coral reefs in the Spratlys and Paracels, two archipelagos claimed in whole by China and Vietnam and in part by Taiwan and a number of Southeast Asian states, as well as from the Scarborough shoal, which is claimed by China, Taiwan and the Philippines (Roszko 2023 ). The extraction required the use of propellers set on small boats, which broke coral that concealed the shells.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The extraction required the use of propellers set on small boats, which broke coral that concealed the shells. Although most of these giant clams were already dead when harvested, their extraction by crane-equipped modern trawlers destroyed entire coral reefs (Roszko 2023 ). Attractively polished, giant clamshells were sold in more than one hundred shops belonging to Tanmen fishing families, reaching prices numbering in the thousands of dollars (see Figure 1 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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