Arne Kaijser

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Faculty Member

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Arne Kaijser is professor emeritus of History of Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His main research interests concern the historical development of infrastructural systems. He has studied different kind of systems (energy systems, transportation systems, communication systems and water systems) in Sweden, the Nordic Countries and Europe, and he is particularly interested in the interaction of infrastructural systems and societies.

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Sweden and Chernobyl : Disclosing the disaster, receiving much fallout, but not changing energy policy

The Conference ”Chernobyl – Turning Point or Catalyst?”, Berlin, Germany, 2-3 December 2016, 2016

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De tekniska systemen som förändrade världen

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… : en tidning om fjärrvärme, kraftvärme och fjärrkyla, 2009

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Redirecting Power: Swedish Nuclear Power Policies in Historical Perspective

Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 1992

... 447 After the First Geneva Conference in 1955, Swedish power producers began to see nuclearpo... more

Nya vägar i europeisk historieskrivning

Driving on wood. The Swedish transition to wood gas during World War Two

History and Technology, Mar 31, 2022

14 Combatting “Acid Rain”: Protecting the Common European Sky

Greening Europe

Cykel bättre än spårbil på campus

A Tribute to the Memory of Brita Åkerman and Carin Boalt

Redirecting infrasystems towards sustainability . What can we learn from history ?

One of the most fundamental societal changes in the Western World in the past two centuries has b... more One of the most fundamental societal changes in the Western World in the past two centuries has been the introduction and expansion of a number of large technological systems for transportation, communication, energy and water supply, and sewage and garbage collection. A common characteristic of these systems is that they facilitate movements of different kinds; of people, goods and information. Furthermore, they provide services that are publicly accessible and which fulfil a basic function in society. I will use the term infrastructural systems, or shortly just infrasystems, to denote these systems.

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Ingenjörerna: by Gunnar Wetterberg, Albert Bonniers förlag, 2020, 366 pp., SEK 222, Stockholm, ISBN 978-91-0018074-4

Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2021

Elektrifieringens apostlar : Propaganda för elektrisk matlagning 1927-1952

Från stora tekniska system till tekniska komplex : Digitaliseringen av den svenska kraftförsörjningen

Artikeln handlar om utvecklingen och inforandet av datorsystemet TIDAS, Total Integrerat DAtor Sy... more

Den hjälpsamma handen : Staten och infrastrukturen

Prologue and Introduction : Transnational Networks and the Shaping of Contemporary Europe

Under a Common Acid Sky. Negotiating Transboundary Air Pollution in Europe : Negotiating Transboundary Air Pollution in Europe

Under a Common Acid Sky. Negotiating Transboundary Air Pollution in Europe : Negotiating Transbou... more

Comparisons and Connections

This book has investigated the historical shaping of critical transnational infrastructure in Eur... more This book has investigated the historical shaping of critical transnational infrastructure in Europe, its associated vulnerabilities, and its intertwinement with broader processes of European integration and fragmentation. The chapters in the three parts have scrutinized these issues from different thematic angles and in a broad range of geographical and temporal settings. While each study has generated intriguing insights in its own right, the range of empirical cases has also set the stage for comparative and connecting observations. This final chapter sets out to harvest from our case studies by focusing on a number of such cross-cutting issues. Differing interpretations of vulnerability Recent constructivist research on risk and vulnerability stresses the importance of studying vulnerability not as a given, objective phenomenon that can be defined precisely and unambiguously but as something that is constantly reinterpreted, contested, and negotiated by stakeholders and analysts...

Water Management, Electricity Supply, Railroads and Industrialization at the Göta Älv: The Dynamics of Systems that Integrate Various Societal Functions

Networking Europe research agenda

Sweden and Chernobyl : Disclosing the disaster, receiving much fallout, but not changing energy policy

The Conference ”Chernobyl – Turning Point or Catalyst?”, Berlin, Germany, 2-3 December 2016, 2016

QC 20190403</p

De tekniska systemen som förändrade världen

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… : en tidning om fjärrvärme, kraftvärme och fjärrkyla, 2009

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Redirecting Power: Swedish Nuclear Power Policies in Historical Perspective