Authors: Klara Strecker, Frank Veraart In: ICON Vol. 28.1 (2023): 77-104 This article presents a transnational history of entangled rose trade. Building on notions of sustainability telecoupling, and transnational history literature, it investigates the historical (dis)entanglement process between Kenya and the Netherlands. It aims to go beyond the common supply side focus to tell
Guest editors: Stathis Arapostathis & Frank Veraart ICON Vol. 28.1 (2023): 1-179 https://www.icohtec.org/icon/volume-28-issue-1-2023/ https://www.icohtec.org/icon/volume-28-issue-1-2023/ Stathis Arapostathis and Frank Veraart Introduction: Entangling Technological Infrastructures, Material Flows and Environmental Modernities, p. 9-23 John Martin British Agricultural Revolutions: The Dissemination and Assimilation of More Productive Methods, p. 24-47 Show abstract Sotiris Alexakis and Stathis Arapostathis From Exploitation
van der Straeten, Jonas. 2022. Sustainability’s “Other”: Coming to Terms with the Electric Rickshaw in Bangladesh. Historical Social Research 47 (4): 139-167. doi: 10.12759/hsr.47.2022.42. Abstract: The transition from fossil fuel-powered to electric mobility is widely discussed as a trajectory towards more efficient, affordable, and sustainable transport infrastructure. Widely ignored in academia, this transition has occurred
Soyacene hi-stories You can also find the Chapter and the Book online: Chapter: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv309h1fx.19?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents Book: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv309h1fx Abstract: This chapter argues that a global environmental history of the Soyacene must not only study sustainability issues produced at sites of soy cultivation (notably in the Americas) and trade, but also those at sites of soy consumption. We
This project, inspired by the Histoire mondiale de la France published in 2017, seeks to place Dutch history in global perspective. EHL finds it important that the history of technology and sustainability is represented. EHL researchers contributed the following chapters: 1872: Nederlandse waterstaat naar Japan en China (Eric Berkers) 1924: Strijd om de plek van
This Special Issue is a key publication of our Global Sustainability History project GREASE. It is inspired by a workshop we organized in Lisbon in 2019, which was designed as an engagement between specialists on histories of technology & the environment in various continents. EHL's Erik van der Vleuten co-edited the si and co-authored the
EHL's Jonas van der Straeten co-edited and contributed to this new special issue of Central Asian Survey, Volume 41, Issue 2 (2022). If this has caught your interest, you might want to take a look at the virtual exhibition Soviet Central Asia in 100 Objects that recently started and to which he also contributed. Technology,