Suzanne Moon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3769004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Moon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Moon |
| SIGNATURE | MOON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0615-808X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Technology in Southeast Asian History
"This book brings together both recent scholarship and classic studies to explore the place of technology in the making of Southeast Asia. By bringing together research that touches on technology with more or less emphasis, from a wide variety of scholars and scholarly approaches it is possible to both understand the richness of material that is already available and to see where areas for further research are needed. The result is a good primer …
Taking Up Neglected Histories
Technology is an indispensable element in all societies. But early histories gave us only a narrow perspective of the rich human experience with technology. In the last thirty years, scholars have embraced histories of technology from less familiar vantage points, taking up neglected histories and neglected peoples. The results have done more than fill in the gaps of preexisting scholarship: diversifying narratives in the field challenges us to c…
A sociotechnical order for the umma: Connecting Islam and technology in Suharto’s Indonesia
This article explores narratives connecting Islam and technology that arose in Indonesia during the New Order period (1965–1998). These public discussions defined technological work, especially work in high technology, as a vital spiritual and economic arena for Indonesian Muslims. By asserting technology as a site for spiritual action, Indonesian Islamic activists offered a redefinition of economic development intended to alter both its goals an…
Passing the Baton
Passing the Baton Suzanne Moon (bio), Peter Soppelsa (bio), and Hunter Heyck (bio) This double issue of Technology and Culture is the last that we will produce at the University of Oklahoma as we pass responsibility with thanks and best wishes to Ruth Oldenziel and the new editorial team at Eindhoven University of Technology. In the past, the Editor-in-Chief has authored these "Passing the Baton" essays in T&C. This time, we diverge slightly from…
Religions and Social Progress: Critical Assessments and Creative Partnerships
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Engineering and the Postcolonial: Historical Perspectives and Ethical Practices
Eden Medina. Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
Eden Medina's Cybernetic Revolutionaries explores the use of cybernetics to implement ideals of democratic socialism in Salvador Allende's Chile. The multifaceted interplay of technology and politics is the centerpiece of Medina's work. Her book is informed by seminal scholarship of technology and politics, including key studies by Langdon Winner, Gabrielle Hecht, and Paul Edwards, among others. If Medina never achieves quite the analytic innovat…
Theory and Community in STS
A striking feature of these inquiries into the character of East Asian STS theories is the way they highlight the issue of community in the field of STS as much as theory itself. The success of EAS
Accepting the Baton
Accepting the Baton Suzanne Moon Historians frequently get a little uncomfortable when asked to reflect on the future. Given our sensitivity to the complexity we find in the past, and the humbling reality that none of us can ever explain it all, it comes as little surprise that we are cautious about predicting outcomes to present-day ferment. As I begin my term as editor in chief of Technology and Culture, however, I have been thinking a good dea…
Everette Lee DeGolyer and Geology Students Mapping in the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma, 1905
Everette Lee DeGolyer and Geology Students Mapping in the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma, 1905 Petar Markovski (bio) and Suzanne Moon (bio) [View Cover Image] The image on this month's cover shows several University of Oklahoma (OU) geology students on a field expedition in 1905, applying classroom lessons to vistas outside the classroom. Using simple tools including a plane table, a leveling instrument, and a vertical stick (out of frame), these s…
Place, voice, interdisciplinarity: Understanding technology in the colony and postcolony
In this special issue of History and Technology we explore the subject of technology in the colony and post‐colony through an interdisciplinary lens, gathering together works that emerge from three
Justice, Geography, and Steel: Technology and National Identity in Indonesian Industrialization
This essay explores the connections between technology and the postcolonial project of national identity formation in Indonesia during the early years of industrialization, from 1950–75. Using a steel plant in Cilegon, West Java as a lens, this article examines the narratives of national identity that justified the building of this “impractical” plant from its beginnings as a Sukarno‐era Soviet aid project, to its final realization in Suharto’s N…
The Emergence of Technological Development and the Question of Native Identity in the Netherlands East Indies
This article examines the emergence of twentieth-century technological development policies in the Netherlands East Indies from broader welfare policies formulated in the nineteenth century. Identity became particularly important in policymaking as officials disputed whether differences between Javanese and European culture could explain why the Javanese did not flourish under colonial rule, and whether encouraging Javanese to become more like Eu…
Research in Science and Technology Studies: Knowledge and Technology Transfer (review)
For some time now, scholars have been rethinking the assumptions that ground studies of technology transfer. Critics have rightly questioned the view of technology transfer as unidirectional and the notion that technology remains unchanged by the process. In Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Marianne DeLaet has assembled an interesting if somewhat uneven collection of essays to explore the topic from a theoretical perspective informed by recent …
Empirical Knowledge, Scientific Authority, and Native Development: The Controversy over Sugar/Rice Ecology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1905-1914
This essay explores the political value of empirical, scientific knowledge of place in the Netherlands East Indies. Critics of the European sugar industry claimed that sugar depleted the soil and stunted subsequent rice crops. The ensuing controversy reached a stalemate when both sugar scientists and their critics were accused of selectively choosing evidence according to political bias. Scientists in the Department of Agriculture resolved the di…
Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine differs from most other books that have been revisited in Technology and Culture during the past few years, as it was written not by a scholar for other scholars but by a professional writer for a popular audience. The number of popular books—written by authors both inside and outside academe—is on the upswing, as the annual list of submissions for SHOT's Hacker Prize can attest.1 The genre is certainly not new, however.…
Insatiable Appetite: The United States and Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (review)
Insatiable Appetite is a rich and informative synthesis of ecological, technological, business, and political history that explores the relationship between American markets for tropical goods and ecological degradation in the tropical world. Richard Tucker's deliberate use of the term "degradation" (rather than an apparently more neutral choice, like "change") makes his opinion of the results of American involvement in the tropics clear. Yet in …
Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca (review)
Zapotec Science is an absorbing anthropological study of a contemporary farming community in the village of Talea de Castro, in the Rincón region of the Northern Sierra Oaxaca in Mexico. Roberto González studies agricultural work and how the people of this Zapotec community integrate their subsistence-oriented agricultural practices and beliefs with a self-consciously constrained relationship with wider markets. He explores Taleans' subsistence p…
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
In this work Jared Diamond takes on a perplexing and complex question: Why has the distribution of power in the world so disproportionately favored Europe and North America, and not Latin America, Africa, or elsewhere? Diamond argues against racially deterministic explanations, asserting instead that environmental factors crucial to the development of farming and sophisticated technologies gave certain societies indomitable advantages over others…
Takeoff or Self-Sufficiency? Ideologies of Development in Indonesia, 1957-1961
L'A. decrit le combat acharne qui fut a l'origine de la mecanisation agricole en Indonesie et du developpement technologique et economique international
Place, voice, interdisciplinarity: Understanding technology in the colony and postcolony
In this special issue of History and Technology we explore the subject of technology in the colony and post‐colony through an interdisciplinary lens, gathering together works that emerge from three
Justice, Geography, and Steel: Technology and National Identity in Indonesian Industrialization
This essay explores the connections between technology and the postcolonial project of national identity formation in Indonesia during the early years of industrialization, from 1950–75. Using a steel plant in Cilegon, West Java as a lens, this article examines the narratives of national identity that justified the building of this “impractical” plant from its beginnings as a Sukarno‐era Soviet aid project, to its final realization in Suharto’s N…
The Emergence of Technological Development and the Question of Native Identity in the Netherlands East Indies
This article examines the emergence of twentieth-century technological development policies in the Netherlands East Indies from broader welfare policies formulated in the nineteenth century. Identity became particularly important in policymaking as officials disputed whether differences between Javanese and European culture could explain why the Javanese did not flourish under colonial rule, and whether encouraging Javanese to become more like Eu…
Empirical Knowledge, Scientific Authority, and Native Development: The Controversy over Sugar/Rice Ecology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1905-1914
This essay explores the political value of empirical, scientific knowledge of place in the Netherlands East Indies. Critics of the European sugar industry claimed that sugar depleted the soil and stunted subsequent rice crops. The ensuing controversy reached a stalemate when both sugar scientists and their critics were accused of selectively choosing evidence according to political bias. Scientists in the Department of Agriculture resolved the di…
Takeoff or Self-Sufficiency? Ideologies of Development in Indonesia, 1957-1961
L'A. decrit le combat acharne qui fut a l'origine de la mecanisation agricole en Indonesie et du developpement technologique et economique international
Takeoff or Self-Sufficiency? Ideologies of Development in Indonesia, 1957-1961
L'A. decrit le combat acharne qui fut a l'origine de la mecanisation agricole en Indonesie et du developpement technologique et economique international
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
In this work Jared Diamond takes on a perplexing and complex question: Why has the distribution of power in the world so disproportionately favored Europe and North America, and not Latin America, Africa, or elsewhere? Diamond argues against racially deterministic explanations, asserting instead that environmental factors crucial to the development of farming and sophisticated technologies gave certain societies indomitable advantages over others…
Insatiable Appetite: The United States and Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (review)
Insatiable Appetite is a rich and informative synthesis of ecological, technological, business, and political history that explores the relationship between American markets for tropical goods and ecological degradation in the tropical world. Richard Tucker's deliberate use of the term "degradation" (rather than an apparently more neutral choice, like "change") makes his opinion of the results of American involvement in the tropics clear. Yet in …
Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca (review)
Zapotec Science is an absorbing anthropological study of a contemporary farming community in the village of Talea de Castro, in the Rincón region of the Northern Sierra Oaxaca in Mexico. Roberto González studies agricultural work and how the people of this Zapotec community integrate their subsistence-oriented agricultural practices and beliefs with a self-consciously constrained relationship with wider markets. He explores Taleans' subsistence p…
Research in Science and Technology Studies: Knowledge and Technology Transfer (review)
For some time now, scholars have been rethinking the assumptions that ground studies of technology transfer. Critics have rightly questioned the view of technology transfer as unidirectional and the notion that technology remains unchanged by the process. In Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Marianne DeLaet has assembled an interesting if somewhat uneven collection of essays to explore the topic from a theoretical perspective informed by recent …
Empirical Knowledge, Scientific Authority, and Native Development: The Controversy over Sugar/Rice Ecology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1905-1914
This essay explores the political value of empirical, scientific knowledge of place in the Netherlands East Indies. Critics of the European sugar industry claimed that sugar depleted the soil and stunted subsequent rice crops. The ensuing controversy reached a stalemate when both sugar scientists and their critics were accused of selectively choosing evidence according to political bias. Scientists in the Department of Agriculture resolved the di…
Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine differs from most other books that have been revisited in Technology and Culture during the past few years, as it was written not by a scholar for other scholars but by a professional writer for a popular audience. The number of popular books—written by authors both inside and outside academe—is on the upswing, as the annual list of submissions for SHOT's Hacker Prize can attest.1 The genre is certainly not new, however.…
The Emergence of Technological Development and the Question of Native Identity in the Netherlands East Indies
This article examines the emergence of twentieth-century technological development policies in the Netherlands East Indies from broader welfare policies formulated in the nineteenth century. Identity became particularly important in policymaking as officials disputed whether differences between Javanese and European culture could explain why the Javanese did not flourish under colonial rule, and whether encouraging Javanese to become more like Eu…
Justice, Geography, and Steel: Technology and National Identity in Indonesian Industrialization
This essay explores the connections between technology and the postcolonial project of national identity formation in Indonesia during the early years of industrialization, from 1950–75. Using a steel plant in Cilegon, West Java as a lens, this article examines the narratives of national identity that justified the building of this “impractical” plant from its beginnings as a Sukarno‐era Soviet aid project, to its final realization in Suharto’s N…
Place, voice, interdisciplinarity: Understanding technology in the colony and postcolony
In this special issue of History and Technology we explore the subject of technology in the colony and post‐colony through an interdisciplinary lens, gathering together works that emerge from three
Accepting the Baton
Accepting the Baton Suzanne Moon Historians frequently get a little uncomfortable when asked to reflect on the future. Given our sensitivity to the complexity we find in the past, and the humbling reality that none of us can ever explain it all, it comes as little surprise that we are cautious about predicting outcomes to present-day ferment. As I begin my term as editor in chief of Technology and Culture, however, I have been thinking a good dea…
Everette Lee DeGolyer and Geology Students Mapping in the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma, 1905
Everette Lee DeGolyer and Geology Students Mapping in the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma, 1905 Petar Markovski (bio) and Suzanne Moon (bio) [View Cover Image] The image on this month's cover shows several University of Oklahoma (OU) geology students on a field expedition in 1905, applying classroom lessons to vistas outside the classroom. Using simple tools including a plane table, a leveling instrument, and a vertical stick (out of frame), these s…
Theory and Community in STS
A striking feature of these inquiries into the character of East Asian STS theories is the way they highlight the issue of community in the field of STS as much as theory itself. The success of EAS
Eden Medina. Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
Eden Medina's Cybernetic Revolutionaries explores the use of cybernetics to implement ideals of democratic socialism in Salvador Allende's Chile. The multifaceted interplay of technology and politics is the centerpiece of Medina's work. Her book is informed by seminal scholarship of technology and politics, including key studies by Langdon Winner, Gabrielle Hecht, and Paul Edwards, among others. If Medina never achieves quite the analytic innovat…
Religions and Social Progress: Critical Assessments and Creative Partnerships
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Engineering and the Postcolonial: Historical Perspectives and Ethical Practices
A sociotechnical order for the umma: Connecting Islam and technology in Suharto’s Indonesia
This article explores narratives connecting Islam and technology that arose in Indonesia during the New Order period (1965–1998). These public discussions defined technological work, especially work in high technology, as a vital spiritual and economic arena for Indonesian Muslims. By asserting technology as a site for spiritual action, Indonesian Islamic activists offered a redefinition of economic development intended to alter both its goals an…
Passing the Baton
Passing the Baton Suzanne Moon (bio), Peter Soppelsa (bio), and Hunter Heyck (bio) This double issue of Technology and Culture is the last that we will produce at the University of Oklahoma as we pass responsibility with thanks and best wishes to Ruth Oldenziel and the new editorial team at Eindhoven University of Technology. In the past, the Editor-in-Chief has authored these "Passing the Baton" essays in T&C. This time, we diverge slightly from…
Technology in Southeast Asian History
"This book brings together both recent scholarship and classic studies to explore the place of technology in the making of Southeast Asia. By bringing together research that touches on technology with more or less emphasis, from a wide variety of scholars and scholarly approaches it is possible to both understand the richness of material that is already available and to see where areas for further research are needed. The result is a good primer …
Taking Up Neglected Histories
Technology is an indispensable element in all societies. But early histories gave us only a narrow perspective of the rich human experience with technology. In the last thirty years, scholars have embraced histories of technology from less familiar vantage points, taking up neglected histories and neglected peoples. The results have done more than fill in the gaps of preexisting scholarship: diversifying narratives in the field challenges us to c…
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