Per Högselius – författare & böcker

Gräv upp, hugg ned, pumpa ut : människan och naturresurserna under 5000 år

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

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279 kr

Människan har en häpnadsväckande förmåga att utvinna och använda naturresurser. Genom årtusendena har detta varit ett tveeggat svärd: det har gjort våra liv rikare och bekvämare, menockså farligare och mer oförutsägbara. Historien om människan och naturresurserna är en berättelse om förbluffande upptäckter och geniala uppfinningar – men även om brustna visioner, politiska konflikter och globala miljöproblem.

Hur har vi blivit så beroende av att utnyttja naturresurser? Och hur ska det bli i framtiden? Teknikhistorikern Per Högselius skildrar naturresursernas roll genom världshistorien – från stenålderns experimenterande med vatten, ved och salt till vår tids kontroversiella utvinning av fossila bränslen, uran och sällsynta jordartsmetaller. Klart står att grävandet, huggandet och pumpandet har format människans väsen.

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Kärnkraften (RJ 2024: Misslyckat?)

AvPer Högselius

Häftad, Svenska, 2024

29 kr

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Kärnkraften: destruktiv och riskfylld, men också produktiv och hjälpsam. Så var det på 1970-talet, och så är det idag. Drömmen om ren och stabil atomkraft dök upp redan i det tidiga 1900-talets science fiction-litteratur, och under den västerländska atomåldern såg fiktionen ut att bli verklighet. Kärnkraftens bidrag till energiförsörjningen växte i rasande fart, och Sverige blev ett av de länder i världen som investerade mest i storskalig kärnkraftsutbyggnad.

De senaste decennierna har kärnkraften stagnerat och antalet reaktorer minskar stadigt. Ändå hoppas många på att kärnkraften ska göra comeback. Kärnkraften har blivit säkrare -- men också dyrare.

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond publicerar under 2024 en samling essäer på temat Misslyckat? Teknikhistorikern Per Högselius diskuterar kärnkraften som hot och möjlighet.

Per Högselius är professor i teknikhistoria vid Kungliga Tekniska högskolan i Stockholm. Hans forskning rör främst energi, naturresurser och infrastrukturer i ett historiskt perspektiv, med fokus på internationella trender. På dessa teman har han bland annat publicerat Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence (2013), Energy and Geopolitics (2019) och The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism (medförfattare, 2024).

Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) publicerar årligen en samling texter på ett aktuellt tema. Ambitionen är att ge en bild av kvaliteten och bredden i dagens forskning inom humaniora och samhällsvetenskap. År 2024 bidrar sex forskare med texter på temat Misslyckat? i form av häften som samlas i en box.

Europe’s Infrastructure Transition

Economy, War, Nature

AvPer Högselius,Arne Kaijserm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

883 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

Europe's infrastructure both united and divided peoples and places via economic systems, crises, and wars. Some used transport, communication, and energy infrastructure to supply food, power, industrial products, credit, and unprecedented wealth; others mobilized infrastructure capacities for waging war on scales hitherto unknown. Europe's natural world was fundamentally transformed; its landscapes, waterscapes, and airscapes turned into infrastructure themselves. Europe's Infrastructure Transition reframes the conflicted story of modern European history by taking material networks as its point of departure. It traces the priorities set and the choices made in constructing transnational infrastructure connections - within and beyond the continent. Moreover, this study introduces an alternative set of historically-key individuals, organizations, and companies in the making of modern Europe and analyzes roads both taken and ignored.

Europe’s Infrastructure Transition

Economy, War, Nature

AvPer Högselius,Arne Kaijserm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

348 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

Europe's infrastructure both united and divided peoples and places via economic systems, crises, and wars. Europe's Infrastructure Transition reframes the conflicted story of modern European history by taking material networks as its point of departure.

Atomic Disenchantment: A Global History of Nuclear Energy

AvPer Högselius

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

1 004 kr

Kommande

Energy and Geopolitics

AvPer Högselius

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

2 133 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

The idea that energy shapes and is shaped by geopolitics is firmly rooted in the popular imagination – and not without reason. Very few countries have the means to secure their energy needs through locally available supplies; instead, enduring dependencies upon other countries have developed. Given energy’s strategic significance, supply systems for fuels and electricity are now seamlessly interwoven with foreign policy and global politics. Energy and Geopolitics enables students to enhance their understanding and sharpen their analytical skills with respect to the complex relations between energy supply, energy markets and international politics. Per Högselius guides us through the complexities of world energy and international energy relations, examining a wide spectrum of fossil fuels, alongside nuclear and renewable energies. Uniquely, the book also shows how the geopolitics of energy is not merely a matter for the great powers and reveals how actors in the world’s smaller nations are as active in their quest for power and control. Encouraging students to apply a number of central concepts and theoretical ideas to different energy sources within a multitude of geographical, political and historical contexts, this book will be a vital resource to students and scholars of geopolitics, energy security and international environmental policy and politics.

Energy and Geopolitics

AvPer Högselius

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

557 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

The idea that energy shapes and is shaped by geopolitics is firmly rooted in the popular imagination – and not without reason. Very few countries have the means to secure their energy needs through locally available supplies; instead, enduring dependencies upon other countries have developed. Given energy’s strategic significance, supply systems for fuels and electricity are now seamlessly interwoven with foreign policy and global politics. Energy and Geopolitics enables students to enhance their understanding and sharpen their analytical skills with respect to the complex relations between energy supply, energy markets and international politics. Per Högselius guides us through the complexities of world energy and international energy relations, examining a wide spectrum of fossil fuels, alongside nuclear and renewable energies. Uniquely, the book also shows how the geopolitics of energy is not merely a matter for the great powers and reveals how actors in the world’s smaller nations are as active in their quest for power and control. Encouraging students to apply a number of central concepts and theoretical ideas to different energy sources within a multitude of geographical, political and historical contexts, this book will be a vital resource to students and scholars of geopolitics, energy security and international environmental policy and politics.

Neutrality’s Empire

Swedish Colonialism in the Industrial Age

AvPer Högselius,David Nilssonm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

1 960 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Reconciling Sweden’s reputation for political neutrality and scientific prestige alongside its involvement in extractivist colonial projects exposes uncomfortable overlaps between these seemingly disparate ventures. In this illuminating reappraisal of the intersections between Swedish colonialism and its industrial history, Neutrality’s Empire explores how Swedish actors—ranging from diplomats and business leaders to missionaries, geologists and engineers—leveraged Sweden’s global standing to access valuable mineral resources across Africa and Asia. In doing so, this book presents a historical narrative which clarifies Sweden’s entanglement with the forces of globalization, colonialism, and climate change.

Dynamics of Innovation in Eastern Europe

Lessons from Estonia

AvPer Högselius

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

2 218 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Building strong and dynamic systems of innovation constitutes a key challenge for the post-socialist economies of Central and Eastern Europe. This book develops a strong conceptual and empirical foundation for understanding how such dynamic systems may emerge. The Dynamics of Innovation in Eastern Europe explains, in particular, how this has been possible in the case of the Estonian system of innovation in telecommunications. The book shows that the socialist historical heritage, and in particular inherited competencies, may be used in highly creative ways for generating dynamic innovation in the post-socialist context. It also uncovers the complex and multifaceted ways in which the geographical and cultural proximity to Western Europe can be creatively used as a powerful resource in the pursuit of building systems of innovation in the East. Moreover, the book demonstrates that it is possible for East European systems of innovation to develop highly creative domestic dynamics without necessarily imitating Western systems or styles of innovation. Providing a unique empirical analysis of how systems of innovation undergo far-reaching transformation and change, this book will be of interest to economists and scholars involved in issues relating to innovation, technology, economic development and East-West integration. Policymakers in the EU and in Central and East European countries and practitioners involved in innovation-related activities will also find it of great appeal.

Döden på stranden

AvPer Högselius

Häftad, Svenska, 2020

204 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Oräkneliga är de, människorna som av en eller annan anledning – eller av ingen anledning alls – mött döden på stranden. Somliga har omkommit i masstragedier, som när en tsunami dragit in och förintat allt i sin väg eller när en främmande flotta anlänt och massakrerat befolkningen i någon kuststad. Andra har dött en egen, individuell stranddöd, frambesvärjd av mörka eller ljusa krafter – ibland genom en ren olyckshändelse, ibland av egen fri vilja, ibland på våldets hårda vägnar.

I Döden på stranden utforskar Per Högselius människans förhållande – i nuet och det förflutna – till havsstranden som ett dödens, skräckens och sorgens territorium. Till sin hjälp tar han samtidens berättelser såväl som konst-, film- och litteraturhistorien.

Trä

AvPer Högselius

Inbunden, Svenska, 2026

285 kr

Kommande

Soviet Nuclear Archipelago

A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism

AvPer Högselius,Achim Klüppelberg

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

212 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance.The two authors map the Soviet nuclear industry in a shifting historical context, making sense of a complex socio-technical and environmental history. Taking an innovative approach, this book explores the history of atomic power in the former Soviet Union using the spatial dimensions of the nuclear industry as a point of departure. The key concept is that of the archipelago – a network of nuclear facilities spread throughout the Soviet territory, but mutually reliant on each other and densely connected.The story traces the emergence of nuclear science and technology for military and civilian purposes through to the post-Soviet Russian nuclear corporations as providers of resources and technology. The book explains how nuclear developments in the Soviet Union interacted with processes of environmental and landscape change. The spatial lens offers an analytically fruitful and pedagogically stimulating way to comprehend the nuclear histories of the Soviet Union and its successor states.

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Per Högselius – författare

Gräv upp, hugg ned, pumpa ut : människan och naturresurserna under 5000 år

Kärnkraften (RJ 2024: Misslyckat?)

Europe’s Infrastructure Transition

Europe’s Infrastructure Transition

Atomic Disenchantment: A Global History of Nuclear Energy

Energy and Geopolitics

Energy and Geopolitics

Neutrality’s Empire

Dynamics of Innovation in Eastern Europe

Döden på stranden

Trä

Soviet Nuclear Archipelago

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