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  1. 16. Försvarets elasticitet i princip och praktik. Arméns teknikförnyelse under mellankrigstiden 

    Författare :Petter Wulf; Hans Weinberger; Arne Kaijser; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; teknikförnyelse; försvarsmaterialsförsörjning; elasticitet; anpassning; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Sammanfattning : Det är ett grundläggande krav på dagens svenska försvar att det ska kunna anpassa sig till nya förhållanden. Här finns en parallell med mellankrigstiden (1919-1939). LÄS MER

  3. 17. Coal Lives : Italians and the Metabolism of Coal in Wallonia, Belgium, 1945-1980

    Författare :Daniele Valisena; Marco Armiero; Sverker Sörlin; Don Mitchell; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; environmental humanities; migration; environmental history; coal; mining; metabolism; Italians; ECSC; heritage; toxicity; geo-history; walking methodology; minatori; emigrazione; storia delle migrazioni; storia ambientale; CECA; patrimonio culturale; tossicità; metabolismo; geostoria; mineurs italiens; migration; CECA; patrimoine; metabolisme; geo-histoire; histoire de l environnement; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Sammanfattning : This manuscript focuses on the relationship between coal and the history of the over 300,000 Italian miners who moved to Wallonia, Belgium, from 1946 onwards, in accordance to the State agreement between Italy and Belgium known as “men in exchange for coal.” Notably, I use environmental history of migration to analyze what I define as “the metabolism of coal. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Dirty coal: Industrial populism as purification in Poland's mining heartland

    Författare :Irma Allen; Sverker Sörlin; Sabine Höhler; Christopher Hann; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; coal; populism; Poland; Silesia; environmental humanities; postsocialism; History of Science; Technology and Environment; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö;

    Sammanfattning : In the second half of the 2010s, far-right populist parties gained increasing power and influenceacross Europe, and around the world. Core to their ethnonationalist, anti-elite agenda, and theiremotive politics, has often been a defense of fossil fuels, threatening action to address the climatecrisis and raising the spectre of fascism. LÄS MER

  5. 19. A Utopian Quest for Universal Knowledge : Diachronic Histories of Botanical Collections between the Sixteenth Century and the Present

    Författare :Anna Svensson; Sabine Höhler; Peder Roberts; Sverker Sörlin; Dániel Margócsy; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; history of botany; utopia; Oxford University Botanic Garden; pressed plants in books; botanical collection; classification; herbarium; Global Plants; digitisation; database; conservation; natural dyeing; botanikhistoria; utopi; Oxford University Botanic Garden; pressade växter i böcker; botaniska samlingar; klassifikation; herbarium; Global Plants; digitalisering; databas; växtfärgning; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the history of botany as a global collection-based science by tracing parallels between utopian traditions and botanical collecting, from their sixteenth-century beginnings to the present. A range of botanical collections, such as gardens, herbaria and classification systems, have played a central role in the struggle to discover a global or universal scientific order for the chaotic, diverse and locally shaped kingdom of plants. LÄS MER

  7. 20. The Nuclear Waters of the Soviet Union : Hydro-Engineering and Technocratic Culture in the Nuclear Industry

    Författare :Achim Klüppelberg; Per Högselius; Kati Lindström; Anna Storm; Melanie Arndt; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nuclear power; water; technocratic culture; USSR; energy system; hydro-nuclear entanglements; Atomkraft; Wasser; technokratische Kultur; Sowjetunion; Energiesystem; hydronukleare Verflechtungen; Kärnkraft; vatten; teknokratisk kultur; Sovjetunionen; energisystem; hydronukleära sammanflätningar; History of Science; Technology and Environment; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö;

    Sammanfattning : After the development of nuclear weapons, civil applications were seen as a way through which protagonists of Soviet modernity could embrace a new future, which Josephson called atomic-powered communism. Where hydro-powered communism had reached its boundaries, nuclear energy was to take over. LÄS MER