Cornelis Disco
Biographic Data
| ID | 265672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cornelis Disco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cornelis |
| FAMILY NAME | Disco |
| SIGNATURE | DISCO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 by Andy Horowitz
Reviewed by: Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 by Andy Horowitz Cornelis Disco (bio) Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 By Andy Horowitz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 296. Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 By Andy Horowitz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 296. A history of Katrina from 1915 to 2015? A century of history? But wasn't Katrina a natural event, a hurricane that wreaked havoc and destruction along the Gulf C…
Alles im Fluss: Die Lebensadern unserer Gesellschaft [Everything flows: The lifeblood of our society] by Dirk van Laak
Reviewed by: Alles im Fluss: Die Lebensadern unserer Gesellschaft [Everything flows: The lifeblood of our society] by Dirk van Laak Cornelis Disco (bio) Alles im Fluss: Die Lebensadern unserer Gesellschaft [Everything flows: The lifeblood of our society] By Dirk van Laak. Frankfurt: S. Fischer Verlag, 2018. Pp. 366. In this book, Dirk van Laak explores humans' coexistence with infrastructures over the past 200 years. To unfold his vision, he mobi…
Spoorwegen in Nederland van 1834 tot Nu (review)
Reviewed by: Spoorwegen in Nederland van 1834 tot Nu Cornelis Disco (bio) Spoorwegen in Nederland van 1834 tot Nu. By Guus Veenendaal. 2nd rev. ed. Amsterdam: Boom, 2008. Pp. 638. €45. During a presentation at the Netherlands Railways (NS), Guus Veenendaal expressed astonishment at the fact that the NS had not commissioned a full-blown railway history on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Dutch rail transport. A collection of essays and som…
Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination (review)
Entries
Accepting Father Rhine? Technological Fixes, Vigilance, and Transnational Lobbies as 'European' Strategies of Dutch Municipal Water Supplies 1900-1975
Downstream users of river water (e.g. municipal waterworks) always face the problem of controlling the behaviour of upstream polluters. In the case of an international river like the Rhine this is exacerbated when there are no international arrangements constraining upstream polluters. This demands flexibility and creativity from downstream waterworks. In this article I describe the repertoires developed by the municipal waterworks of two large D…
Delta Blues
The whirlwind that swept through the American media after the devastation of New Orleans last August was hardly less ferocious than Hurricane Katrina itself. The Corps of Engineers was lambasted for failing to defend the city against the floodwaters, while politicians from Mayor Ray Nagin to President George Bush were called to account for the tragically incompetent evacuation and relief efforts. Critics frequently drove their points home with in…
The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 (review)
Reviewed by: The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000 Cornelis Disco (bio) The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000. By Mark Cioc. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. Pp. xiii+263. $29.95. Probably no river in the world has engendered such a flood of books, reports, poetry, songs, and works of art as the Rhine. As Western Europe's premier river; as real and imagined frontier between principalities, nations, and empires; as military barrier…
Water wizards: Reshaping wet nature and society
The article investigates how humans ‘networked’ wet nature and how this affected the shaping of Dutch society. First, it takes a grand view of Dutch history and describes how wet network building intertwined with the shaping of the Dutch landscape, its economy and its polity. Second, it investigates the specific challenges of wet network building—integrating potentially conflicting uses of water into one design—for the case of the national fresh …
Tis Folly to Be Wise
"Strong, Invincible Arguments?" Tidal Models as Management Instruments in Twentieth-Century Dutch Coastal Engineering
In the twentieth century Dutch hydraulic engineers developed different types of models for tidal calculations, including numerical, electrical and hydraulic ones. These models aimed specifically to predict the propagation of tides at sea into bays and estuaries and up tidal rivers. The aim was to predict the effects of projected hydraulic works-which were becoming ever more ambitious-on tidal levels and currents at inshore locations. We argue tha…
"Remaking "Nature: The Ecological Turn in Dutch Water Management
The ecological turn in water management has usually been interpreted as a political and cultural rather than technical and professional accomplishment. The dynamics of the uptake of ecological expertise into hydraulic engineering bureaucracies have not been well described. Focusing on the controversy around the damming of the Oosterschelde estuary in the Netherlands in the 1970s, this article shows how public environmental politics transformed th…
Making the Grade in Dutch Civil Engineering 1780–1920
Professional groups are intensely interested in managing their recruitment as part of their struggle for occupational prestige and autonomy. On the one hand this requires recruits from influential and high‐status families; on the other hand it demands public demonstration that only the most competent recruits are being selected. As a way out of this potential quandary, 19th century professions relied on ‘meritocratic’ educational gantlets that si…
Technical innovation and the universities: Divisions of Labour in Cosmopolitan Technical Regimes
The educated minotaur: The sources of Gouldner's New Class theory
Critical theory as ideology of the new class: Rereading J rgen Habermas
Ludwig Wittgenstein and the end of wild conjectures
"Remaking "Nature: The Ecological Turn in Dutch Water Management
The ecological turn in water management has usually been interpreted as a political and cultural rather than technical and professional accomplishment. The dynamics of the uptake of ecological expertise into hydraulic engineering bureaucracies have not been well described. Focusing on the controversy around the damming of the Oosterschelde estuary in the Netherlands in the 1970s, this article shows how public environmental politics transformed th…
Technical innovation and the universities: Divisions of Labour in Cosmopolitan Technical Regimes
Critical theory as ideology of the new class: Rereading J rgen Habermas
Accepting Father Rhine? Technological Fixes, Vigilance, and Transnational Lobbies as 'European' Strategies of Dutch Municipal Water Supplies 1900-1975
Downstream users of river water (e.g. municipal waterworks) always face the problem of controlling the behaviour of upstream polluters. In the case of an international river like the Rhine this is exacerbated when there are no international arrangements constraining upstream polluters. This demands flexibility and creativity from downstream waterworks. In this article I describe the repertoires developed by the municipal waterworks of two large D…
Ludwig Wittgenstein and the end of wild conjectures
"Strong, Invincible Arguments?" Tidal Models as Management Instruments in Twentieth-Century Dutch Coastal Engineering
In the twentieth century Dutch hydraulic engineers developed different types of models for tidal calculations, including numerical, electrical and hydraulic ones. These models aimed specifically to predict the propagation of tides at sea into bays and estuaries and up tidal rivers. The aim was to predict the effects of projected hydraulic works-which were becoming ever more ambitious-on tidal levels and currents at inshore locations. We argue tha…
Making the Grade in Dutch Civil Engineering 1780–1920
Professional groups are intensely interested in managing their recruitment as part of their struggle for occupational prestige and autonomy. On the one hand this requires recruits from influential and high‐status families; on the other hand it demands public demonstration that only the most competent recruits are being selected. As a way out of this potential quandary, 19th century professions relied on ‘meritocratic’ educational gantlets that si…
Ludwig Wittgenstein and the end of wild conjectures
Critical theory as ideology of the new class: Rereading J rgen Habermas
The educated minotaur: The sources of Gouldner's New Class theory
Technical innovation and the universities: Divisions of Labour in Cosmopolitan Technical Regimes
Making the Grade in Dutch Civil Engineering 1780–1920
Professional groups are intensely interested in managing their recruitment as part of their struggle for occupational prestige and autonomy. On the one hand this requires recruits from influential and high‐status families; on the other hand it demands public demonstration that only the most competent recruits are being selected. As a way out of this potential quandary, 19th century professions relied on ‘meritocratic’ educational gantlets that si…
"Remaking "Nature: The Ecological Turn in Dutch Water Management
The ecological turn in water management has usually been interpreted as a political and cultural rather than technical and professional accomplishment. The dynamics of the uptake of ecological expertise into hydraulic engineering bureaucracies have not been well described. Focusing on the controversy around the damming of the Oosterschelde estuary in the Netherlands in the 1970s, this article shows how public environmental politics transformed th…
"Strong, Invincible Arguments?" Tidal Models as Management Instruments in Twentieth-Century Dutch Coastal Engineering
In the twentieth century Dutch hydraulic engineers developed different types of models for tidal calculations, including numerical, electrical and hydraulic ones. These models aimed specifically to predict the propagation of tides at sea into bays and estuaries and up tidal rivers. The aim was to predict the effects of projected hydraulic works-which were becoming ever more ambitious-on tidal levels and currents at inshore locations. We argue tha…
Water wizards: Reshaping wet nature and society
The article investigates how humans ‘networked’ wet nature and how this affected the shaping of Dutch society. First, it takes a grand view of Dutch history and describes how wet network building intertwined with the shaping of the Dutch landscape, its economy and its polity. Second, it investigates the specific challenges of wet network building—integrating potentially conflicting uses of water into one design—for the case of the national fresh …
Tis Folly to Be Wise
The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 (review)
Reviewed by: The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000 Cornelis Disco (bio) The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000. By Mark Cioc. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. Pp. xiii+263. $29.95. Probably no river in the world has engendered such a flood of books, reports, poetry, songs, and works of art as the Rhine. As Western Europe's premier river; as real and imagined frontier between principalities, nations, and empires; as military barrier…
Delta Blues
The whirlwind that swept through the American media after the devastation of New Orleans last August was hardly less ferocious than Hurricane Katrina itself. The Corps of Engineers was lambasted for failing to defend the city against the floodwaters, while politicians from Mayor Ray Nagin to President George Bush were called to account for the tragically incompetent evacuation and relief efforts. Critics frequently drove their points home with in…
Accepting Father Rhine? Technological Fixes, Vigilance, and Transnational Lobbies as 'European' Strategies of Dutch Municipal Water Supplies 1900-1975
Downstream users of river water (e.g. municipal waterworks) always face the problem of controlling the behaviour of upstream polluters. In the case of an international river like the Rhine this is exacerbated when there are no international arrangements constraining upstream polluters. This demands flexibility and creativity from downstream waterworks. In this article I describe the repertoires developed by the municipal waterworks of two large D…
Entries
Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination (review)
Spoorwegen in Nederland van 1834 tot Nu (review)
Reviewed by: Spoorwegen in Nederland van 1834 tot Nu Cornelis Disco (bio) Spoorwegen in Nederland van 1834 tot Nu. By Guus Veenendaal. 2nd rev. ed. Amsterdam: Boom, 2008. Pp. 638. €45. During a presentation at the Netherlands Railways (NS), Guus Veenendaal expressed astonishment at the fact that the NS had not commissioned a full-blown railway history on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Dutch rail transport. A collection of essays and som…
Alles im Fluss: Die Lebensadern unserer Gesellschaft [Everything flows: The lifeblood of our society] by Dirk van Laak
Reviewed by: Alles im Fluss: Die Lebensadern unserer Gesellschaft [Everything flows: The lifeblood of our society] by Dirk van Laak Cornelis Disco (bio) Alles im Fluss: Die Lebensadern unserer Gesellschaft [Everything flows: The lifeblood of our society] By Dirk van Laak. Frankfurt: S. Fischer Verlag, 2018. Pp. 366. In this book, Dirk van Laak explores humans' coexistence with infrastructures over the past 200 years. To unfold his vision, he mobi…
Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 by Andy Horowitz
Reviewed by: Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 by Andy Horowitz Cornelis Disco (bio) Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 By Andy Horowitz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 296. Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 By Andy Horowitz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 296. A history of Katrina from 1915 to 2015? A century of history? But wasn't Katrina a natural event, a hurricane that wreaked havoc and destruction along the Gulf C…
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