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Per Högselius

@perhogselius.bsky.social
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Professor of history of technology at KTH in Stockholm. Energy, natural resources, water, nuclear, infrastructures, coasts. Transnational history, East-West, past-present.

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Gustav Holmberg @gustavholmberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Bra Streckare av @perhogselius.bsky.social : www.svd.se/a/QMVyLJ/vat...
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Vatten – en knapp och farlig resurs | Per Högselius
Människor behöver dricka 1–2 liter vatten om dagen, men svensken gör av med runt 200 liter. Hur ska man förstå denna överkonsumtion?
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In "The Nuclear-Water Nexus," @perhogselius.bsky.social & Siegfried Evens bring together contributors from around the world to take a deep dive into the complex interactions between nuclear energy and water. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255228...
"The Nuclear-Water Nexus" on a plain background. In the top half of the cover is an image of two cooling plants by a body of water. Their reflection is mirrored in the bottom half of the cover.
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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Coming soon! Stay tuned for a dark and uncomfortable tale: "Neutrality's Empire: Swedish Colonialism in the Industrial Age" www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Hogsel... Written together with my brilliant co-authors David Nilsson and Hanna Vikström, with a bonus chapter by Karl Bruno.
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Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"Med andra ord: globalt sett har inget bränsle någonsin ersatts av något annat. I stället har utnyttjandet av samtliga energikällor fortsatt att öka från 1800-talet och fram till i dag." Riktigt sugen på Fressoz bok: More and More and More. Här diskuterad av @perhogselius.bsky.social
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Kruxet med den gröna omställningen | Per Högselius
Klimataktivister, politiker, forskare och till och med oljebolagen verkar överens om en sak: vi bör eftersträva energiomställning. Men bakom föreställningen om en sådan övergång från gamla till nya en...
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
#EDF stake in Sizewell C new #nuclear 16.2%, UK govt 83.8%. "EDF CEO just axed and its financial stability in question." "Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C costs ramp and timelines slip." "Fundamental questions about the wisdom of proceeding with Sizewell C." www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/edf-r...
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EDF reduces stake in Sizewell C as boss sacked | New Civil Engineer
The UK’s flagship gigawatt-scale new nuclear projects under construction – Hinkley Point C in Somerset and Sizewell C in Suffolk – are both subject to
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Join us for the first online seminar on doing Anthropocene History with Gabrielle Dürbeck, this Thursday at 15.30. @anthropocenekth.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #anthropocene www.kth.se/anthropocene...
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Doing Anthropocene History #1: Natural-Cultural Memory in the Anthropocene – theoretical reflections and examples in contemporary narratives | KTH
Join us for the first session in our Doing Anthropocene History seminar series for 2025 with Gabriele Dürbeck.
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Mats Widgren @matswidgren.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Kakhovka dam was like a large inland sea (photo from Smiivka/ Gammalsvenskby 2017). Bombed by the Russians on June 6th 2023. Now the UNCG report is pubilshed: Destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir: Environmental Consequences (in Ukrainian). uncg-org-ua.translate.goog/znyshhennya-...
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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We have a cover! Our edited volume "The Nuclear-Water Nexus" will be out in July, with MIT Press. 25 brilliant authors at home in 11 countries made this possible! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255228...
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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Spent half the day in the old reactor hall R1 at KTH, for SVT's recording of an upcoming documentary series on Swedish nuclear power. Hope that I didn't make a bigger fool of myself than necessary...
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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Deadline approaching, 21 Feb! We're hiring two assistant professors in Anthropocene History here at KTH. www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...
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KTH | Assistant professor in in History of Science with a specialization in Anthropocene History
KTH jobs is where you search for jobs at www.kth.se.
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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Ser fram emot att hålla en liten populärvetenskaplig föreläsning på KTH imorgon torsdag kl. 12.10-12.55: Svensk teknikhistoria i ett KTH-perspektiv! intra.kth.se/aktuellt/kal...
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Svensk teknikhistoria i ett KTH-perspektiv | KTH Intranät
Med start den 13 februari 2025 erbjuds en föreläsningsserie i populärvetenskapligt format om KTH:s snart 200-åriga historia. Under sex föreläsningar erbjuds deltagarna en inblick i KTH:s historia, ark...
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
French #nuclear reactor joins grid after €13bn holdup and a dozen costly years of technical setbacks, 12 years behind schedule after a slew of delays and cost overruns. Cost, estimated at €3.3 billion, ballooned to over €13 billion. www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...
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France's most powerful nuclear reactor joins grid after €13bn holdup
France's flagship Flamanville nuclear reactor in Normandy was to start supplying electricity to homes on Friday when it's reconnected to the power grid after a dozen costly years of technical setbacks...
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Don't miss our #EnvHist 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬! Here are the calls: 1. St Andrews Book Prize eseh.org/call-eseh-20... 2. Turku Book Award eseh.org/awards-and-g... 3. Tallinn Dissertation Prize eseh.org/call-for-sub... 4. Bristol-Bern Prize in Public Environmental History eseh.org/call-eseh-20...
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
1 PhD position (3 years) in the research project “Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall” at the German #mining Museum Bochum: Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources w Tina Asmussen #envhist 👇 karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/2...
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72.2024 1 PhD position (m/f/d) for 3 years in the research project “Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall”
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We have posted two tenured positions as assistant professor in #Anthropocene history at our centre, please help share widely: www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... One is in #envhist and one is in history of science.
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KTH | Assistant professor in Environmental History with a specialization in Anthropocene History
KTH jobs is where you search for jobs at www.kth.se.
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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
We have a new exciting call for a doctoral student here at KTH. The PhD position is well funded and will be linked to a project on the environmental history of Stockholm during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, led by my fabulous colleague Rob Gioielli. www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...
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KTH | Doctoral student in History of Science, Technology and Environment
KTH jobs is where you search for jobs at www.kth.se.
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Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
NEW BLOG POST (I'm on a roll this week, but there probably won't be another for several weeks, now): beached; or playing with water and rocks. www.storiedselves.ca/blog/8020ez8... #erosion #tides
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beached — storied selves
I started my writing residency week deep in the ocean, writing shipwrecks and coordinates, fathoms deep. But now, after five days of wandering and dreaming and thinking and writing, I’m beached, thi...
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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
ECOCIDE IS OFFICIALLY DEAD!!! The latest issue of the American Historical Review includes our massive article on Easter Island. It's part of a special issue on Histories of Resilience, with several articles focused on environmental history, Indigenous peoples, and the Global South. #envhist #histsci
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Honghong Tinn @honghongtinn.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My book will be available for purchase on January 7, 2025. For readers with a US mailing address, below is a discount code for 30% off on publication day via Penguin Random House. (shorturl.at/wGwwo) PUBDAY30 Please save the date! More on the discount code: shorturl.at/oXuGh @mitpress.bsky.social
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Island Tinkerers by Honghong Tinn: 9780262549387 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world’s leading chip manufacturer. How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the...
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Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
A chapter from the recently published Chinese anthology "Law, Knowledge, and Power in the Age of Empire," providing some critical reflections on the use and analysis of historical archives in the field of Chinese (legal) history. t.cn/A6mCvA2N ​​​
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方法|陈利:“隐形档案”与史料深挖四步法
最近二三十年间, 欧美的人文社会科学研究领域中形成了一个所谓“档案转向” (archival turn) 的学术潮流。
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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Spotted today in a Stockholm suburb!
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Per Högselius @perhogselius.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Very nice piece on a surprising topic: pre-WWII transports of radioactive materials! Give us more of this, Aske!
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I have spent a day or so updating and fixing broken links on this list of archives of post-war UK scientists and engineers If you know of more, let me know and I will add them blogs.ucl.ac.uk/sts-observat...
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UK archives of post-war science and engineering – notes towards a list | UCL STS Observatory
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
New open access book by Elena Kochetkova: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺. Read it on our Environment & Society Portal! #EnvHist
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The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology
Full text of Elena Kochetkova’s The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology, a book on the relationship between nature and humans under state soc...
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Save the date for our next ESEH online seminar in #envhist, with an exciting talk by Anna Sokolova on foraging berries and mushrooms in Soviet forests! On December 10, 16:00 CET, register here to get the link and please invite others who might be interested: forms.gle/y5bbY9GgnmnN...
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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Listening to How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr. I’m learning a lot as I don’t read enough American global history.
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Victor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I am pleased to share the spring 2025 lineup of the Harvard Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series! These talks take place over Zoom and are open to all. Hope you will be able to join us. scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #sts #envhist 🧪
Poster showing the lineup of the Harvard Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series for spring 2025.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Here's another interesting open-access book: 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯–𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 by Carina Keskitalo. Read it and many other titles on our Environment & Society Portal. #envhum #envhist
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Frontier Thinking and Human–Nature Relations: We Were Never Western
Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a critique of “frontier thinking” as it continues to form our assumptions about social and environmental organisation.
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Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New special issue on the sea in #Scandinavian literature! 🌊 Edited by me & Frederike Felcht. The landing page is in German, but about half of the contributions are in English. www.nordeuropaforum.de #Litwiss #envhum It's open access, so you can plunge right in...
Photo of the view out to sea from a rocky island in Norway.
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Don’t miss this if you’re in Stockholm next week! #envhist
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