Per Högselius
Biographic Data
| ID | 5825577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Per Högselius |
| GIVEN NAMES | Per |
| FAMILY NAME | Högselius |
| SIGNATURE | HÖGSELIUS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9687-1940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rethinking energy materialities in the shadow of Russia's war on Ukraine
The hidden integration of Central Asia
This article challenges existing interpretations of Central Asia as a geographical entity. Adopting a history of technology approach to defining and analytically ‘constructing’ Central Asia as a region, it scrutinizes the ways the region has been materially created over the years through four types of large technical systems (infrastructures): waterways, railways, electricity grids and natural gas pipelines. This process, which is traced over a p…
Atomic Shocks of the Old
This article argues that the history of nuclear energy can and should be analyzed as a history of water. Taking inspiration from David Edgerton's The Shock of the Old and recent efforts to merge the history of technology with environmental history, here the focus shifts from nuclear reactors to the "conventional" parts of nuclear power plants. This brings to the fore that a range of hydraulic technologies with long prehistories-pumps, pipes, valv…
Extractive visions
This article scrutinises one of the most fascinating and ambitious cases of Swedish informal empire-building in the industrial age: the skilfully orchestrated attempts by scientists, diplomats, industrial companies and financial institutions to seize control over early Republican China’s most strategic industrial sector – its iron and steel complex. Sweden’s ‘extractive vision’, as we call it, started with the recruitment of Johan Gunnar Andersso…
The Historical Dynamics of Resource Frontiers
Challenging Europe
Since the nineteenth century, access to and the development of natural resources became an important element of national and international politics. Resource security emerged as an issue vital to national security; and resource competition and crises gave rise to international tensions as well as to technological innovation and new modes of transnational cooperation
Energy materiality
This jointly authored essay reviews recent scholarship in the social sciences, broadly understood, that focuses on the materiality of energy. Although this work is extraordinarily diverse in its disciplinary and interdisciplinary influences and its theoretical and methodological commitments, we discern four areas of convergence and divergence that we term the locations, uses, relationalities, and analytical roles of energy materiality. We trace t…
Taking on Technocracy
Dolores L. Augustine’s new book explores the historical underpinnings of Germany’s radical 2011 decision to shut down all nuclear power plants in the country by 2022. This decision, which was suppo
Swedish steel and global resource colonialism
This article analyses Swedish industry’s attempts to secure strategic raw materials in an era of global resource colonialism. More precisely, it tells the story of how Sandvikens Jernverk – a leading Swedish steel producer – set out to secure its need for chromium ore during the Interwar Era. Up to the late 1920s, Sandviken sourced its chromium from British and French colonies. However, the company feared the British Empire’s growing dominance in…
Swedish Explorers, in-Situ Knowledge, and Resource-Based Business in the Age of Empire
The period from 1870 to 1914 plays a unique role in the history of natural resource exploration and extraction. This article analyses, from a Swedish viewpoint, the connections between two actor categories of special importance in this context: scientific-geographical explorers and industrial actors. The article examines their activities in three broadly defined regions: the Arctic, Russia, and Africa. We show that the Swedes generally had far-re…
The Gas Weapon. Dir Alex Shiriaieff. Brooklyn
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Europe’s Infrastructure Transition
Europe's infrastructure both united and divided peoples and places via economic systems, crises, and wars. Some used transport, communication, and energy infrastructure to supply food, power, industrial products, credit, and unprecedented wealth; others mobilized infrastructure capacities for waging war on scales hitherto unknown. Europe's natural world was fundamentally transformed; its landscapes, waterscapes, and airscapes turned into infrastr…
Europe's Infrastructure Transition
Networked Food Economy
Sunday, July 7, 1907. In response to an escalating labor conflict, Dutch army and naval forces entered the Rotterdam harbor in the estuaries of the Rhine and Meuse Rivers. At stake was the pneumatic pumping of bulk grain from sea vessels to river barges. Compared to the traditional manual unloading of grain sacks, the new harbor infrastructure promised to save 94 percent of the labor previously needed and boost Rotterdam’s grain trade. The German…
The Saudi Arabia of the Far East? China's rise and fall as an oil exporter
Under the Ice
One of the most striking aspects of media’s reporting on the retreating and thinning Arctic sea ice has been the insistence that an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean creates vast new opportunities for the world’s energy supply. The absence of sea ice in summertime is presumed to offer new possibilities for extracting oil and gas reserves, estimated to contain 25 percent of the not yet discovered deposits of those resources, according to the US g…
Science, Technology and Politics in the GDR
Dolores L. Augustine, Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945–1990. Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press, 2007, xxvii + 381 pp., $40.00 (£25.95) h/b. Kristie Macrakis, Seduc
The internationalization of the European electricity industry
The internationalization of the European electricity industry
The hidden integration of Central Asia
This article challenges existing interpretations of Central Asia as a geographical entity. Adopting a history of technology approach to defining and analytically ‘constructing’ Central Asia as a region, it scrutinizes the ways the region has been materially created over the years through four types of large technical systems (infrastructures): waterways, railways, electricity grids and natural gas pipelines. This process, which is traced over a p…
Rethinking energy materialities in the shadow of Russia's war on Ukraine
Atomic Shocks of the Old
This article argues that the history of nuclear energy can and should be analyzed as a history of water. Taking inspiration from David Edgerton's The Shock of the Old and recent efforts to merge the history of technology with environmental history, here the focus shifts from nuclear reactors to the "conventional" parts of nuclear power plants. This brings to the fore that a range of hydraulic technologies with long prehistories-pumps, pipes, valv…
Swedish Explorers, in-Situ Knowledge, and Resource-Based Business in the Age of Empire
The period from 1870 to 1914 plays a unique role in the history of natural resource exploration and extraction. This article analyses, from a Swedish viewpoint, the connections between two actor categories of special importance in this context: scientific-geographical explorers and industrial actors. The article examines their activities in three broadly defined regions: the Arctic, Russia, and Africa. We show that the Swedes generally had far-re…
The Saudi Arabia of the Far East? China's rise and fall as an oil exporter
Science, Technology and Politics in the GDR
Dolores L. Augustine, Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945–1990. Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press, 2007, xxvii + 381 pp., $40.00 (£25.95) h/b. Kristie Macrakis, Seduc
The internationalization of the European electricity industry
Under the Ice
One of the most striking aspects of media’s reporting on the retreating and thinning Arctic sea ice has been the insistence that an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean creates vast new opportunities for the world’s energy supply. The absence of sea ice in summertime is presumed to offer new possibilities for extracting oil and gas reserves, estimated to contain 25 percent of the not yet discovered deposits of those resources, according to the US g…
Europe’s Infrastructure Transition
Europe's infrastructure both united and divided peoples and places via economic systems, crises, and wars. Some used transport, communication, and energy infrastructure to supply food, power, industrial products, credit, and unprecedented wealth; others mobilized infrastructure capacities for waging war on scales hitherto unknown. Europe's natural world was fundamentally transformed; its landscapes, waterscapes, and airscapes turned into infrastr…
Europe's Infrastructure Transition
Networked Food Economy
Sunday, July 7, 1907. In response to an escalating labor conflict, Dutch army and naval forces entered the Rotterdam harbor in the estuaries of the Rhine and Meuse Rivers. At stake was the pneumatic pumping of bulk grain from sea vessels to river barges. Compared to the traditional manual unloading of grain sacks, the new harbor infrastructure promised to save 94 percent of the labor previously needed and boost Rotterdam’s grain trade. The German…
The Saudi Arabia of the Far East? China's rise and fall as an oil exporter
The Gas Weapon. Dir Alex Shiriaieff. Brooklyn
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Swedish steel and global resource colonialism
This article analyses Swedish industry’s attempts to secure strategic raw materials in an era of global resource colonialism. More precisely, it tells the story of how Sandvikens Jernverk – a leading Swedish steel producer – set out to secure its need for chromium ore during the Interwar Era. Up to the late 1920s, Sandviken sourced its chromium from British and French colonies. However, the company feared the British Empire’s growing dominance in…
Swedish Explorers, in-Situ Knowledge, and Resource-Based Business in the Age of Empire
The period from 1870 to 1914 plays a unique role in the history of natural resource exploration and extraction. This article analyses, from a Swedish viewpoint, the connections between two actor categories of special importance in this context: scientific-geographical explorers and industrial actors. The article examines their activities in three broadly defined regions: the Arctic, Russia, and Africa. We show that the Swedes generally had far-re…
Energy materiality
This jointly authored essay reviews recent scholarship in the social sciences, broadly understood, that focuses on the materiality of energy. Although this work is extraordinarily diverse in its disciplinary and interdisciplinary influences and its theoretical and methodological commitments, we discern four areas of convergence and divergence that we term the locations, uses, relationalities, and analytical roles of energy materiality. We trace t…
Taking on Technocracy
Dolores L. Augustine’s new book explores the historical underpinnings of Germany’s radical 2011 decision to shut down all nuclear power plants in the country by 2022. This decision, which was suppo
The Historical Dynamics of Resource Frontiers
Challenging Europe
Since the nineteenth century, access to and the development of natural resources became an important element of national and international politics. Resource security emerged as an issue vital to national security; and resource competition and crises gave rise to international tensions as well as to technological innovation and new modes of transnational cooperation
Extractive visions
This article scrutinises one of the most fascinating and ambitious cases of Swedish informal empire-building in the industrial age: the skilfully orchestrated attempts by scientists, diplomats, industrial companies and financial institutions to seize control over early Republican China’s most strategic industrial sector – its iron and steel complex. Sweden’s ‘extractive vision’, as we call it, started with the recruitment of Johan Gunnar Andersso…
The hidden integration of Central Asia
This article challenges existing interpretations of Central Asia as a geographical entity. Adopting a history of technology approach to defining and analytically ‘constructing’ Central Asia as a region, it scrutinizes the ways the region has been materially created over the years through four types of large technical systems (infrastructures): waterways, railways, electricity grids and natural gas pipelines. This process, which is traced over a p…
Atomic Shocks of the Old
This article argues that the history of nuclear energy can and should be analyzed as a history of water. Taking inspiration from David Edgerton's The Shock of the Old and recent efforts to merge the history of technology with environmental history, here the focus shifts from nuclear reactors to the "conventional" parts of nuclear power plants. This brings to the fore that a range of hydraulic technologies with long prehistories-pumps, pipes, valv…
Rethinking energy materialities in the shadow of Russia's war on Ukraine
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