Review of<i>’colonial technology: Science and the transfer of innovation to Australia’</i>by Jan Todd

Storey, William Kelleher

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“…2 McNeill' s work supports the sophisticated approach of colonial technology diffusion in combination with adaptations and inventions aimed at local development that is emerging in global science and technology studies. In comparison with Basalla' s model, this nascent synthetic model is less Eurocentric and based more on empirical data (e.g., Storey, 1988 Diamond (2004) pays relatively more attention to human agency. leading idea, earlier conceptualized by historians of technology in general, is that world technology development is a process shaped by a variety of competing and cooperating actors that operate in a certain context reflected in their agency (e.g., Bijker, 1995).…”

Section: Diffusion: Towards a New Model Of Colonial Technology Develomentioning

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Between Globalization and Localization: The Case of Dutch Civil Engineering in Indonesia, 1800-1950

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Globalization, understood as the process of absorbing people all over the world into one global network of economic and other ties, began roughly when Europeans started exploring the world through sailing the oceans (from the fourteenth century onward). The subsequent processes of colonialism and imperialism are stages in the unfolding globalization process. Technology made this globalization possible, but also developed in connection with it. This paper discusses globalization and technology development, focusing on colonial state formation and civil engineering development in colonial Indonesia, the former Dutch East Indies. Dutch East Indies state formation took place between 1800 and 1950, and civil engineering works were dominant in the technology involved. Dutch engineers in public service constructed 67,000 kilometers of roads, 7,500 kilometers of railways, many large bridges, modern irrigation systems covering 1.4 million hectares of rice fields, several international harbors, and 140 public drinking water systems in the archipelago. With these public works, Dutch engineers constructed the material base of the colonial and postcolonial Indonesian state. This paper shows that the case of Dutch civil engineering in Indonesia contradicts the idea that globalization implies a simple processes of diffusion from the West. Dutch East Indies civil engineering development appears to be a process in which Western technology had to be adapted to local natural, social, and cultural conditions, and was shaped by a variety of

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Section: Diffusion: Towards a New Model Of Colonial Technology Develomentioning

confidence: 97%

Between Globalization and Localization: The Case of Dutch Civil Engineering in Indonesia, 1800-1950

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2007

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Review of’colonial technology: Science and the transfer of innovation to Australia’by Jan Todd

Cited by 2 publications

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Between Globalization and Localization: The Case of Dutch Civil Engineering in Indonesia, 1800-1950

Between Globalization and Localization: The Case of Dutch Civil Engineering in Indonesia, 1800-1950

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