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- Title
Dutch Engineering Overseas: The Creation of a Modern Irrigation System in Colonial Java.
- Authors
Ravesteijn, Wim
- Abstract
This article describes and analyses the development of modern irrigation in Java within the context of the establishment and transformation of the colonial state in the Dutch East Indies / Indonesia. In order to make this relationship comprehensible the concept "large technical system" has been adopted. The colonial socio-technical irrigation system was built between 1830 and 1942. Engineers, civil servants and agricultural experts were the main system builders and they formed specific coalitions practising specific irrigation approaches. After Indonesia gained its independence, the colonial irrigation system remained in existence and, consequently, irrigation engineering remained top-down, large-scale and focused on agricultural-technical management.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; JAVA (Indonesia); IRRIGATION; IRRIGATION engineering
- Publication
Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2002, Vol 14, Issue 4, p126
- ISSN
1946-4789
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12130-002-1019-8