Asia’s oceanic Anthropocene: How political elites and global offshore oil development moved Asian marine spaces into the new epoch

IF 1.7 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
S. Huebner
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Abstract The Anthropocene epoch, characterized by human-caused planetary-scale transformations like climate change and ocean acidification, today is usually associated with the period beginning in the mid-twentieth century. Taking an oceanic perspective on the Anthropocene in Asia, the article argues that oceanic and terrestrial energy regimes synchronized since the 1950s when, for the first time in history, oceanic ghost acres turned marine spaces into a major fuel source. Despite global connections between offshore oil regions located in North America, Asia, and other places going back to the late nineteenth century, Asia’s contingent offshore oil field locations and their physical geographies, combined with political factors, inhibited large-scale offshore drilling before the 1950s. These characteristics of marine spaces meant that Asian political elites and their developmentalist agendas became the guiding force in exploring offshore fields, a process that was hardly dominated by corporate capitalism or structural choice limitations due to the legacies of colonialism.
亚洲海洋人类世:政治精英和全球近海石油开发如何将亚洲海洋空间带入新时代
人类世的特征是人类引起的行星尺度变化,如气候变化和海洋酸化,今天通常与20世纪中期开始的时期联系在一起。这篇文章从海洋的角度来看待亚洲的人类世,认为海洋和陆地的能源制度自20世纪50年代以来是同步的,这是历史上第一次,海洋的幽灵英亩把海洋空间变成了一个主要的燃料来源。尽管北美、亚洲和其他地区的海上油区之间的全球联系可以追溯到19世纪后期,但在20世纪50年代之前,亚洲海上油田的位置和地理位置,再加上政治因素,抑制了大规模的海上钻探。海洋空间的这些特征意味着亚洲的政治精英和他们的发展主义议程成为探索海上油田的指导力量,这一过程几乎不受公司资本主义或殖民主义遗留的结构性选择限制的支配。
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CiteScore
3.30
自引率
5.30%
发文量
28
期刊介绍: Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend the dichotomy between "the West and the rest", straddle traditional regional boundaries, relate material to cultural and political history, and overcome thematic fragmentation in historiography. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary conversations across a wide variety of social and natural sciences. Published for London School of Economics and Political Science
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