Sökning: "Historiska studier av teknik"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade orden Historiska studier av teknik.

  1. 16. The Northward Course of the Anthropocene : Transformation, Temporality and Telecoupling in a Time of Environmental Crisis

    Författare :Eric Paglia; Sverker Sörlin; Nina Wormbs; Charles Parker; John McNeill; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anthropocene; Arctic; Fernand Braudel; environmental and climate crisis; environmental history; expertise; polar geopolitics; securitization; Svalbard; telecoupling; History of Science; Technology and Environment; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan;

    Sammanfattning : The Arctic—warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet—is a source of striking imagery of amplified environmental change in our time, and has come to serve as a spatial setting for climate crisis discourse. The recent alterations in the Arctic environment have also been perceived by some observers as an opportunity to expand economic exploitation. LÄS MER

  2. 17. A QUEST FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOVEREIGNTY : Chicana/o Literary Experiences of Water (Mis)Management and Environmental Degradation in the US Southwest

    Författare :María Isabel Perez-Ramos; Sverker Sörlin; Marco Armiero; Joni Adamson; Maria Herrera Sobek; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Environmental humanities; ecocriticism; environmental history; comparative literature; U.S. Southwest; Chicana o; subaltern literature; environmental justice; water; political ecology; postcoloniality; decoloniality.; Miljöhumaniora; ekokritik; miljöhistoria; litteraturhistoria; sydvästra USA; Chicana o; subaltern litteratur; miljörättvisa; vatten; politisk ekologi; postkolonialitet; dekolonialitet.; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Sammanfattning : The U.S. Southwest is a semi-arid region affected by numerous environmental problems. Chicana/o communities have been directly affected by such problems, especially ever since the region was annexed from Mexico by the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. LÄS MER

  3. 18. The Specter of Scarcity : Experiencing and Coping with Metal Shortages, 1870-2015

    Författare :Hanna Vikström; Per Högselius; Dag Avango; Fjaestad Maja; Ingulstad Mats; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; scarcity; critical metals; Sweden; small countries; strategic metals; metal shortages; history of technology; experiences of scarcity; coping with shortages; technological trends; World War I; resource crisis; construction of resources.; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Sammanfattning : In spite of an ever-growing supply of metals, actors have long feared metal shortages. This thesis – departing from an understanding that metals scarcity is not an objective geological fact, but an experience, a fear of a shortage – explores why business and state actors have experienced metals as scarce and how they coped with scarcity from 1870 to 2015. LÄS MER

  4. 19. Arbete mot kapital : typografer och ny teknik - studier av Stockholms tryckeriindustri under det industriella genombrottet

    Författare :Lars Ekdahl; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Arbetsorganisation; Arbete; Arbetsmarknad; Tryckerier-- historia -- Sverige -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet; Industrihistoria-- Sverige -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet; Typografer-- Sverige -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet; Sverige-- Stockholm;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  5. 20. Grundat 1876 : Historia och företagsidentitet inom Ericsson

    Författare :Brita Lundström; Marie Nisser; Lars Thue; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; industrial history; history of technology; cultural history; use of history; business history; corporate identity; factory buildings; telecommunication; Ericsson; Telefonplan Midsommarkransen ; Kista; Stockholm; National Museum of Science and Technology; Sweden; 20th century.; History of technology and industry; Teknik- och industrihistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis sets out to analyse the importance of history use in the modern industrial enterprise and its role in creating and transforming corporate identity. Both history use and corporate identity are concerned with creating and using a narrative or a self-image, and these concepts, accordingly, provide the starting point of the study. LÄS MER