Energy and Society (winter 2022)
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Presentation: Sunny, Timotheus
Assigned reading (pick any 2 out of 3):
Gabrielle Hecht, "Technopolitical regimes," The Radiance of France (1998), 55-90.
Sonja Schmid, Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry (2015), 97-125.
Frank Laird, "Constructing the future: Advocating energy technologies in the Cold War," Technology and Culture 44 (2003): 27-49.
Suggested reading:
Rhodes, "The dark age to come," Energy, 307-325.
Paul Josephson, Red Atom (2000).
Eliza Gheorghe, "Atomic Maverick: Romania’s negotiations for nuclear technology, 1964–1970," Cold War History 13 (2013): 373-392.
Matthias Heymann, "Signs of hubris: The shaping of wind technology styles in Germany, Denmark, and the United States, 1940-1990," Technology and Culture 39 (1998), 641-670.Benjamin Sovacool, "The importance of open and closed styles of energy research," Social Studies of Science 40 (2010): 903-930.