Downloadable conference presentations & selected publications
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS"New Women's Work, Women's New Terrorisms: The Material Practices of Female Terrorists during the First Wave of Modern Terrorism", at: Conference Women in the World of Violence: Wars, Revolutions, Terrorism and Extremism, Stockholm, 3 April 2009. "Securitizing Revolutionary Violence", at: CAST Inspirational Workshop Terror of People, Terror of States: Perspectives on Security, Violence & Revolution, Copenhagen, 25 March 2009."Det resonabla våldet: Framtidstro, teknik och vetenskap i den terroristiska revolutionen", at: Conference 80-tal: Kulturhistoria i ett nytt samhälle : Kulturhistoria, samhällsdebatt och civilisationskritik i 1880-talets Sverige, Lund, 28 February 2009. "The Forms of Terror", at: CAST opening conference, Oct 21 2008. "Bullets, Bombs, & Broadsheets: The Materialist Origins of Modern Terrorism" Brown Bag Lecture, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, Sept 16 2008. Session "The New Effects of New Materialisms" & Panel "The Historianimation of Contemporary Technomedicoscience (NewGoogleWorldStudiesTube, 2017) ", Teknik- och Vetenskapshistoriska dagar, Stockholm, April 8-10 2008. "How we Learned to Live With the Bombs", at: Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) 50th Anniversary NSF Workshop, Washington D.C., 18 October 2007. "From Fritz to Osama: The History of Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) Terror",at: BiOSA Evening on Bioterror, Copenhagen, 7 December 2006. "The Tools of Terror: Towards a History of Technology of Terrorism from the Guillotine to the Camcorder", at: 2006 Annual Meeting for the Society of the History of Technology (SHOT), Las Vegas, Nevada, 13 October 2006. "Om att gå emot strömmen: Motståndskraft mot utvecklingskraft under den tredje industriella revolutionen", at: 2006 Dansk Teknologihistorisk Selskabs Årsmøde: Stora Teknologiska Systemer, Copenhagen, 8 September 2006. "The Contradictions of ’Corporate Luddism’: Resistance to Radical Technological Innovation during the Third Industrial Revolution”, at: 33rd International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) Symposium: Transforming Economies and Civilizations : The Role of Technology, Leicester, 19 August 2006. [Not yet in pdf]
BOOKSMats Fridlund, Den gemensamma utvecklingen: Staten, storföretaget och samarbetet kring den svenska elkrafttekniken, [The Mutual Development: The State, Big Industry and the Collaboration on Swedish Electric Power Technology] English Summary(Stockholm & Stehag: Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 1999), 264 pp. Errata
PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH
Electronic articles on: The Ericsson Files: 125 Years of Ericsson History on one DVD (Stockholm: Telefon AB LM Ericsson & Center for Business History in Stockholm, 2001). Republished as Online articles on The Ericsson Files (Centrum för Näringslivshistoria/Center for Business History in Stockholm, 2005- ) & The History of Ericsson (Center for Business History in Stockholm & Telefonaktoebolaget LM Ericsson AB, 2008- ):
(with Claes-Fredrik Helgesson)
”Texting ’bout a revolution”, Review of Jon Agar, Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone (Icon, 1999), New Scientist 178 (26 April 2003), 52. [Not yet in pdf] ”The Tough Love of Development Pairs: Connecting Demand of the State and the Supply of Industry through Cooperative R&D in Swedish Electric Power Technology”, in: José Manoel Carvalho de Mello & Henry Etzkowitz, eds., Rio 2000 Third Triple Helix International Conference: The Endless Transition : Relations among Social, Economic and Scientific Development in a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations : Book of Abstracts (Rio de Janeiro: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2000), 242–245. [Not yet in pdf] ”Switching Relations and Trajectories: The Development Procurement of the Swedish AXE Switching Technology”, in: Charles Edquist, Leif Hommen & Lena Tsipouri, eds., Public Technology Procurement and Innovation, Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation v. 16 (Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999), 143–165. [pdf] ”Procuring Products and Power: Developing International Competitiveness in Swedish Electrotechnology and Electric Power”, in: Charles Edquist, Leif Hommen & Lena Tsipouri, eds., Public Technology Procurement and Innovation, Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation v. 16 (Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999), 99–120. [pdf] (with Serge Paquier), ”The Making of Small Industrial Giants: The Growth of the Swedish ASEA and the Swiss BBC through Crises and Challenges Prior to 1914”, in: Timo Myllyntaus, ed., Economic Crises and Restructuring in History: Experiences of Small Countries (St. Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 1998), 237–264. [pdf] ”Shaping the Tools of Competitive Power: Government Technology Procurement in the Making of the HVDC Technology”, Research Report to the European Commission (DG XII) in the Targeted Socio-Economic Research (TSER) program under the Fourth Framework Program, Tema–T Working Paper 192 (Linköping: Linköping University, 1998), 47 pp. (Also published on CD-ROM and online) [pdf] ”Switching Relations: The Government Development Procurement of a Swedish Computerized Electronic Telephone Switching Technology”, Research Report to the European Commission (DG XII) in the Targeted Socio-Economic Research (TSER) program under the Fourth Framework Program, Tema–T Working Paper 191 (Linköping: Linköping University, 1998), 58 pp. (Also published on CD-ROM and online) [pdf] (with Helmut Maier), ”The Second Battle of the Currents: A Comparative Study of Engineering Nationalism in German and Swedish Electric Power, 1921-1961”, Working Papers from the Department of History of Science and Technology 96/2 (Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 1996), 19 pp. [pdf] ”The ’Development Pair’ as a Link between System Growth and Industrial Innovation: Cooperation between the Swedish State Power Board and the ASEA Company”, Working Papers from the Department of History of Science and Technology 93/9 (Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 1993), 21 pp. [pdf] ”International Acclaim and Swedish Obscurity: The Fall and Rise of David Enskog”, in: Svante Lindqvist, ed., Center on the Periphery: Historical Aspects of 20th-Century Swedish Physics (Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications, 1993), 238-268. [pdf] ”The Teaching of History of Technology in Japan: A Survey in 1990”, Working Papers from the Department of History of Science and Technology 93/7 (Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 1993), 45 pp. [pdf] ”Preserved Objects in the History of Plasma Physics in Sweden”, Uppsala Newsletter: History of Science (1990):13, 3-4. (Reprinted in Artifactory: Technology Museums Special Interest Group Newsletter 12 (1990):2, 4-5.) [pdf]
SELECTED SWEDISH ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
(with Claes-Fredrik Helgesson) ”Om att hålla sig till saken: Den industriella artefakten som interaktivt lokus”, [About sticking with the thing: The industrial artifact as interactive locus], in: Sven Widmalm, ed., Artefakter: Industrin, vetenskapen och de tekniska nätverken (Hedemora: Gidlunds, 2004), 289-314. [pdf] (with Ulf Sandström) ”Förord”, [Preface] in: Mats Fridlund & Ulf Sandström, eds., Universitetets värden: Bidrag till den forskningspolitiska debatten [The Values of the University: Contributions to the Science Policy Debate] (Stockholm: SNS Förlag, 2000), 7–11.[pdf] ”Schumpeters tvillingar: Utvecklingsblock och sociotekniska system i studiet av industriell förändring” [Schumpeter’s twins: Development blocks and sociotechnical systems in the study of industrial change], Polhem: Tidskrift för teknikhistoria 16 (1998), 27–47. [pdf] ”Är det här också teknik? Några bidrag till teknikens mentalitetshistoria” [Is this also technology? Some contributions to the history of mentality of technology], in: Marika Hedin & Ulf Larsson, eds., Teknikens landskap: En teknikhistorisk antologi tillägnad Svante Lindqvist (Stockholm: Atlantis, 1998), 23–40. [pdf] ”De nationalistiska systemen: Konstruktion av teknik och svenskhet kring sekelskiftet 1900” [The nationalistic systems: Construction of technology and Swedishness around the turn of the century 1900], in: Pär Blomkvist & Arne Kaijser, eds., Den konstruerade världen: Tekniska system i historiskt perspektiv (Stockholm & Stehag: Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 1998), 77–103. [pdf] ”Nationsbyggandets verktyg: Teknisk förändring i nationalismens teori och praktik” [The tools of nation-building: Technological change in the theory and practice of nationalisms], in: Bo Lindberg, ed., Nationalism: En kursredovisning från Avdelningen för idéhistoria vid Stockholms universitet, Idéhistoriska uppsatser 31 (Stockholm: Stockholm University, 1997), 82-94. [Not yet in pdf] ”Teknikens konstruktion av nationen: Svensk nationalism och industrialisering kring sekelskiftet 1900” [The technology’s construction of the nation: Swedish nationalism and industrialization at turn of the century 1900], in: Brita Brenna & Karen Marie Fjeldstad, eds., Kollektive identiteter, ting og betydninger, TMV skriftserie Nr. 24/1997 (Oslo: Pensumtjeneste, 1997), 123-142. [pdf] ”’En specifikt svensk virtuoskonst’: Empiriska och teoretiska perspektiv på utvecklingsparet Asea-Vattenfalls historia” [’A specifically Swedish act of virtuosity’: Empirical and theoretical perspectives on the history of the development pair of Asea and the Royal Board of Waterfalls], Polhem: Tidskrift för teknikhistoria 12 (1994), 106-131. [Not yet in pdf] ”Historiska föremål på KTH från plasmafysikens tidiga utveckling, 1940 - ca 1970” [Historical Artifacts at the Royal Institute of Technology from the Early Era of Plasma Physics, 1940-ca.1970], Rapport i forskningsprojektet Fysikerna och deras verktyg (Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 1989), 69 pp. [Not yet in pdf]
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