Cycling and Recycling

Ruth Oldenziel is Professor of American and European History at the Eindhoven University of Technology and visiting scholar at the LMU Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Her books include Consumers, Users, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe with Mikael Hård; Cold War Kitchen with Karin Zachmann; Gender and Technology with Nina Lerman and Arwen Mohun; and Making Technology Masculine.

“…an informative and very readable volume that offers stimulating ideas for further research.” • Technikgeschichte“The reviewer freely admits to have learned many interesting and fascinating facts about ‘Cycling and Recycling’ in very different country contexts. In addition, most of the contributions have been written in such a way as to be so comprehensible and jargon-free as to make them accessible also to readers beyond the narrow circle of specialists, which appears particularly important for an interdisciplinary field such as environmental history. In addition, the collection reveals, beyond the semantic bracket of the title, a thematic stringency that one can only wish for in the cases of many available syntheses bound together.” • H-Soz-Kult“This book’s conceptual framework is truly innovative and makes a much-needed intervention in the vast literature on sustainability. Writing against the ‘techno-fix mentality’ that dominates so many contemporary environmental discourses, the editors persuasively argue for the need to resurrect ‘older technologies for a new purpose.’” • Edward D. Melillo, Amherst College

• PART I: INTRODUCTIONIntroduction: How Old Technologies Became Sustainable: An IntroductionRuth Oldenziel and Helmuth TrischlerPART II: CYCLING HISTORIESChapter 1. Use and Cycling in West AfricaHans Peter HahnChapter 2. The Politics of Bicycle Innovation: Comparing the American and Dutch Human-Powered Vehicle Movements, 1970s—presentManuel StoffersChapter 3. Scarcity, Poverty, Exclusion: Negative Associations of Bicycle’s Uses and Cultural History in FranceCathérine Bertho LavenirChapter 4. Who Pays, Who Benefits? Bicycle Taxes as Policy Tool of the Public Good, 1890–2012Adri de la Bruhèze and Ruth OldenzielChapter 5. Monuments of Unsustainability: Planning, Path Dependence, and Cycling in StockholmMartin EmanuelPART III: INTERSECTIONSChapter 6. Bicycling and Recycling in Japan: Divergent TrajectoriesWilliam Steele PART IV: RECYCLING HISTORIESChapter 7. Premodern Sustainability? The Secondhand and Repair Trade in Urban EuropeGeorg StögerChapter 8. Waste to Assets: How Household Waste Recycling Evolved in West GermanyRoman KösterChapter 9. Ecological Modernization of Waste-Dependent Development? Hungary’s 2010 Red Mud DisasterZsuzsa GilleChapter 10. “Der Kampf um den Abfallstrom.” Conflict and Contestation in Re-Valuing E-Waste in GermanyDjahane SalehabidiPART IV: REFLECTIONSChapter 11. Can History Offer Pathways to Sustainability?Donald WorsterChapter 12. History, Sustainability, ChoiceRobert FriedelContributorsSelect BibliographyIndex