- Arne Kaijser is professor emeritus of History of Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His main research i... moreArne Kaijser is professor emeritus of History of Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His main research interests concern the historical development of infrastructural systems. He has studied different kind of systems (energy systems, transportation systems, communication systems and water systems) in Sweden, the Nordic Countries and Europe, and he is particularly interested in the interaction of infrastructural systems and societies.edit
This one-day workshop on 20 November 2017 is devoted to discussing the reasons for, public engagement with, and consequences of nuclear installations sited at international borders. It is organised together with the new "Border... more
This one-day workshop on 20 November 2017 is devoted to discussing the reasons for, public engagement with, and consequences of nuclear installations sited at international borders.
It is organised together with the new "Border Crosssings" research Center at Humboldt-University Berlin, and will benefit from the conceptual expertise of researchers specialising on the issue of borders and transnationalism.
It is organised together with the new "Border Crosssings" research Center at Humboldt-University Berlin, and will benefit from the conceptual expertise of researchers specialising on the issue of borders and transnationalism.
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The Trail Smelter Case arbitration is famous in international environmental law. Following a decision by an international tribunal in 1941, Canada agreed to pay indemnities for air pollution caused by a Canadian plant in the state of... more
The Trail Smelter Case arbitration is famous in international environmental law. Following a decision by an international tribunal in 1941, Canada agreed to pay indemnities for air pollution caused by a Canadian plant in the state of Washington. This case illustrates a problem of utmost importance for humankind, namely transnational vulnerabilities. The author argues that historians of technology can contribute to a deeper understanding of these problems, which are often intimately linked with technology. He cites two ongoing projects that study such vulnerabilities. The Eurocommons project focuses on Europe's common skies, rivers and seas and studies conflicts concerning the exploitation of their resources, while the Eurocrit project analyzes how transnational infrastructures have cre! ated new forms of interdependencies and shared vulnerabilities! among European nations. The author argues that cosmopolitan scholarship, a close cooperation among scholars from many countries with intimate knowledge of different contexts, is necessary for studying transnational problems.
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... NOTE 1 The historical analysis presented in this chapter draws heavily on previous work byEzekiel Nyangeri Nyanchaga, Jenny Appelblad ... Sector Participation in Urban Water Supply in Sub-Saharan Africa, KfW Bankengruppe, Frankfurt am... more
... NOTE 1 The historical analysis presented in this chapter draws heavily on previous work byEzekiel Nyangeri Nyanchaga, Jenny Appelblad ... Sector Participation in Urban Water Supply in Sub-Saharan Africa, KfW Bankengruppe, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Bayliss, K.(2003 ...
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Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today. A 2006 power line failure in northern Germany closed lights in Portugal in a matter of seconds. Several Russian-Ukrainian gas... more
Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today. A 2006 power line failure in northern Germany closed lights in Portugal in a matter of seconds. Several Russian-Ukrainian gas crises shocked politicians, entrepreneurs, and citizens thousands of kilometers away in Germany, France, and Italy. This book argues that present-day infrastructure vulnerabilities resulted from choices of infrastructure builders in the past. It inquires which, and whose, vulnerabilities they perceived, negotiated, prioritized, and inscribed in Europe's critical infrastructure. It does not take 'Europe' for granted, but actively investigates which countries and peoples were historically connected in joint interdependency, and why. In short, this collection unravels the simultaneous historical shaping of infrastructure, common vulnerabilities, and Europe.
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... Readers of this journal, therefore, will probably find the book dis-appointing and may want to refer to traditional accounts by August Wilhem von Hofmann and Hermann von Helmholtz. GABRIEL FINKELSTEIN ... GABRIEL FINKELSTEIN ...
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IN Stockholm, as in most other big or medium-sized cities in the West, the last 150–200 years have brought about a tremendous expansion and transformation of the city region. These revolutionary changes in size, distribution, density, and... more
IN Stockholm, as in most other big or medium-sized cities in the West, the last 150–200 years have brought about a tremendous expansion and transformation of the city region. These revolutionary changes in size, distribution, density, and structural build-up of the ...
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This article investigates the deregulation of the Swedish electricity industry as a political process. Discussions about deregulation started in the late 1980s. A first step in the process was the corporatization of the Swedish... more
This article investigates the deregulation of the Swedish electricity industry as a political process. Discussions about deregulation started in the late 1980s. A first step in the process was the corporatization of the Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall in 1992. The deregulatory process culminated with the new Electricity Law, which entered into force in 1996. We investigate in historical depth how
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As the European Union has expanded over the past fifty years, interest in transnational networks and their effect on the political, economic, and social makeup of Europe has grown. Yet because scholars have done little research on the... more
As the European Union has expanded over the past fifty years, interest in transnational networks and their effect on the political, economic, and social makeup of Europe has grown. Yet because scholars have done little research on the phenomenon of European ...