Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
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Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). In considering technology and the ways that citizen use and think about things, Rudolf Mrázek invents an traditional way to talk about freedom, colonialism, nationalism, literature, revolution, and human nature.
The central chapters consist of vignettes and take up, in turn, communication (from shoes to road-building to motorcycle clubs), architecture (from prison construction to home air-conditioning), visual technologies (from photography to fingerprinting), clothing and fashion, and the introduction of radio and radio stations. The text clusters colse to a group of spicy recurring characters representing colonialism, nationalism, and the awkward, definite presence of the European cultural, intellectual, and political avant-garde: Tillema, the pharmacist-author of Kromoblanda; the explorer/engineer Ijzerman; the "Javanese princess" Kartina; the Indonesia nationalist journalist Mas Marco; the Dutch novelist Couperus; the Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer; and Dutch left-wing liberal Wim Wertheim and his wife.
In colonial Indies, as elsewhere, citizen employed what Proust called "remembering" and what Heidegger called "thinging" to sense and make sense of the world. In using this consideration to approach Indonesian society, Mrázek captures that community off balance, allowing us to see it in unfamiliar positions. The supervene is a singular work with surprises for readers throughout the group sciences, not least those interested in Southeast Asia or colonialism more broadly.
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