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The Evolution of the Shipbuilding Industry in Southeast Asia: From Ancient to Modern Times

Author(s) Mr. Aaloy Gangopadhyay
Country India
Abstract The Southeast Asia maritime architectural practice characteristic of its geopolitical configuration is an ancient-and- modern palimpsest of maritime genius made of incremental revisionist and intersecting premodern technocultural paradigms before and after transforming into contemporary industrial modes in ship-construction. In this essay, I seek to map the longue durée of the shipbuilding sector in Southeast Asia focusing on an evolutionary chain that connects autochthonous waterborne conveyances, the balangay and jong that epitomize native epistemologies mobility with highly mechanised infrastructures in urban-industrial combined centre specific to Singapore, Ho Chi Minh as well as Subic Bay.

Triangulating material culture studies, historiographical inquest, and econometric datasets at method level the inquiry deconstructs the dialect of endogenous innovation and exogenous imposition through which has enacted the ontogenesis of maritime shipbuilding practices from below. Local craftsmen and transoceanic mercantile circuits as antagonistic imbrications, the socio-technological sedimentations resulting from instances of colonial entanglement will be central to the examination. Through this lens, the paper problematizes maritime engineering's tradition-bound teleologies of progress and presents instead a heterochronic model of precolonial, colonial and postcolonial in iterative reinvention and syncretic accretion.

Moreover, the investigation traces epistemic infrastructures underpinning maritime archives and representations engaging with the epistemological work made possible in erecting archaeological objects, ethnographic narratives and macroeconomic indicators on shore. Via this analytical lens, the study places Southeast Asia not as a just-peripheral or derivative site of shipbuilding breakthroughs but rather for epistemic node in the capitalist maritime-industrial complex: a nexus where geostrategic urgencies come into convergence with tech-cultural hybridity.

This means that the paper sets regaining its status in global supply chains and oceanographic geopolitical configurations in its regionally enduring but also contemporary renaissance as a node for naval architectural production, questioning both the historical base and current triumph. Constructing premodern heritage of maritime with the vamp of late-capitalist industrial rationality in Southeast Asia shipbuilding seems as a necessary vector, if we want to ask broader questions about technological sovereignty; regional integration or the material infrastructures of transnational capitalism.
Keywords Southeast Asia, Shipbuilding, Maritime Trade, Balangay, Jong, Colonial Shipyards, Modern Shipbuilding
Published In Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2025
Published On 2025-05-30
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i03.46498
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9mtss
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