Jonas Van Der Straeten

Biographic Data

ID1469671
NAMEJonas Van Der Straeten
GIVEN NAMESJonas
FAMILY NAMEVan Der Straeten
SIGNATUREVAN DER STRAETEN J
AFFILIATIONSProject ‘A Global History of Technology 1850–2000’, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
ORCID0000-0002-6072-9376
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Roundtable

    Erik Van Der Vleuten, Evelien De Hoop et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture2025

    In the face of diverse and uneven environmental crises across the globe, ongoing efforts to "globalize" the history of technology field may be considered urgent. In doing so, however, we risk uncritically exporting the norms and practices of a predominantly Western-centric field-an arguably colonial act. This roundtable explores four areas of contention: how to conceptualize "the global"; why, how and with whom to study "history" amid threatened …

  • Technology, temporality, and the study of Central Asia

    Open AccessJonas Van Der Straeten, Julia ObertreisARTICLECentral Asian Survey2022Cited by: 1References: 33

    This issue is dedicated to the question of how research on technology and its inherent temporality and materiality can enhance our understanding of geography, culture and history in Central Asia. The articles provide fresh ideas on Central Asia as a region by unpacking the “hard” infrastructural base of its cultural, social, and economic geography. They offer a more inclusive view on Central Asian landscapes, focusing on permanent material struct…

  • The Soviet city as a landscape in the making

    Open AccessJonas Van Der Straeten, Mariya PetrovaARTICLECentral Asian Survey2022Cited by: 1References: 20

    This paper traces the changes and continuities in the cityscape of Soviet Samarkand following the launch of the mass housing campaign under Nikita Khrushchev. It examines the planning, building, appropriation, and renovation of public and private housing on the level of practices rather than policies and discourses. The paper relates these practices to the specific temporalities of Samarkand’s landscape, such as the life cycles of inhabitants, th…

  • Let There Be Light

    Jonas Van Der StraetenARTICLETechnology and Culture2022

    Reviewed by: Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945 by Suvobrata Sarkar Jonas van der Straeten (bio) Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945 By Suvobrata Sarkar. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 294. Within the burgeoning historiography of electricity in the non-West, Sarkar's book stands out as one of the few wri…

  • Borderlands of Industrial Modernity

    Jonas Van Der StraetenARTICLETechnology and Culture2019Cited by: 5

    Central Asia is among the world regions that are least explored in terms of their history of technology. This essay reviews a wide array of academic literature that can serve as a base for historical research on technology and material culture in the region. It furthermore explores some of the most promising conceptual avenues for such an endeavor. The metaphor of a borderland, it argues, can be used beyond its geographical meaning to conceptuali…