Publications Jonas van der Straeten

Books

  • van der Straeten, Jonas. Transmitting Development: Global Networks and Local Grids in the Electrification of East Africa (working title). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.

Edited volumes

  • Groh, Sebastian, Jonas van der Straeten, Brian Edlefsen Lasch, Dimitry Gershenson, Walter Leal Filho, and Daniel Kammen, eds. Decentralized Solutions for Developing Economies: Addressing Energy Poverty Through Innovation. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Cham: Springer, 2015. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15964-5

Edited special issues

  • van der Straeten Jonas, and Julia Obertreis, eds. “Technology, Temporality and the Study of Central Asia.” Special issue, Central Asian Survey 42, no. 2 (2022). Forthcoming.
  • Hasenöhrl, Ute, and Jonas van der Straeten, eds. “(Post)Colonialism, Infrastructures and the Environment.” Special issue, NTM Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 24, no. 4 (2016). link.springer.com/journal/48/24/4/page/1

Journal Articles

  • van der Straeten, Jonas. Sustainability’s “Other”: Coming to Terms with the Electric Rickshaw in Bangladesh. Historical Social Research 47 (4), 2022: 139-167. doi: 10.12759/hsr.47.2022.42 or download as pdf (opens in new tab)
  • van der Straeten, Jonas, and Mariya Petrova. “The Soviet City as a Landscape in the Making: Planning, Building and Appropriating Samarkand, ca. 1960s-1980s.” Central Asian Survey 42, no. 2 (2022). Forthcoming.
  • van der Straeten, Jonas and Julia Obertreis, “Technology, Temporality and the Study of Central Asia. An Introduction.” Central Asian Survey 42, no. 2 (2022). Forthcoming.
  • van der Straeten, Jonas, “Measuring progress in megawatt: Colonialism, development, and the “unseeing” electricity grid in East Africa.” Centaurus vol. 93 (2), 2021: 651-674. https://doi.org/10.1111/1600-0498.12415
  • van der Straeten, Jonas, “Measuring progress in megawatt: Colonialism, development, and the “unseeing” electricity grid in East Africa.” Centaurus https://doi.org/10.1111/1600-0498.12415
  • Petrova, Mariya, and Jonas van der Straeten. “Wissen, Bauen Und Urbaner Wandel Im Sowjetischen Usbekistan Der 1960er Jahre.” Moderne Stadtgeschichte, no. 1 (2021).
  • van der Straeten, Jonas, “The Rhythms Behind Change. Historiography and the Temporality of Non-Western Technological Landscapes” Technikgeschichte 88 (2), 2021: 191-196. download as pdf (opens in new tab)
  • van der Straeten, Jonas. “Borderlands of Industrial Modernity: Explorations into the History of Technology in Central Asia, 1850–2000.” Technology and Culture, vol. 60 no. 3, 2019, p. 659-687. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2019.0069
  • van der Straeten, Jonas, and Ute Hasenöhrl. “Connecting the Empire: New Research Perspectives on Infrastructures and the Environment in the (Post)Colonial World.” NTM Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 24, no. 4 (2016): 355–91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-017-0162-y

Book chapters

  • van der Straeten, Jonas, and Mariya Petrova, “Mud Bricks in a Concrete State. Building, Maintaining and Improving One’s Own House in Soviet Samarkand, 1957‐1991,” in: Stefan Krebs and Heike Weber, eds, Histories of Technology’s Persistence: Repair, Reuse, and Disposal, 111-137, Bielefeld: transcript, 2021. Open Access Book
  • van der Straeten, Jonas, and Mariya Petrova, “Prefabricating Uzbekistan? Discourses and Realities of Urban Redevelopment in Tashkent and Samarkand under Soviet Rule,” accepted for publication in: Christoph Bernhardt, Andreas Butter, and Monika Motylinska, eds, Between Solidarity and Business: Global Entanglements in Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming.
  • van der Straeten, Jonas, and Heike Weber. “Technology and Its Temporalities: A Global Perspective.” accepted for publication in; Global History of Technology (19th-21st Centuries). Edited by Guillaume Carnino, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, Jérôme Lamy, and Larissa Zakharova. Brepols.
  • van der Straeten, Jonas, and Jochen Monstadt, “Between Providers and Users. Redistributors in Nairobi’s Fragmented Landscape of Electricity Provision,” accepted for publication in: Richard Rottenburg et al., eds, Lifeworld as Technicisation, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, forthcoming.
  • van der Straeten, Jonas, “Ressource oder Wildnis? (Post)Koloniale Vorstellungswelten von afrikanischen Naturräumen,“ accepted for publication in: Miriam Grabarits et al., eds, Quellen Zur Umweltgeschichte. Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau Verlag, forthcoming.
  • van der Straeten, Jonas, and Patrick Hege, “Enclaves of Light and Citadels of Profit: Translating Electrical Networks in Colonial Dar Es Salaam, 1904-1940,” accepted for publication in: Jochen Monstadt, René de Bercegol, and Bérénice Bon, eds, Translating the Networked City: Urban Infrastructures in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
  • Bakteeva, Anastasia, and Jonas van der Straeten. “Financing Energy Efficiency and Climate Adaptation Measures on Household Level in Kyrgyzstan: Market Based Approaches in a Post-Soviet Country?” In Decentralized Solutions for Developing Economies: Addressing Energy Poverty Through Innovation. Edited by Sebastian Groh et al., 209–16. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Cham: Springer, 2015.
  • van der Straeten, Jonas, Sebastian Groh, and Kathrin Friederici. “Taking a Micro-Perspective on the Global Challenge of Climate Change: The “Microenergy Systems” Research Focus at the Technische Universität Berlin.” In International perspectives on climate change: Latin america and beyond. Edited by Walter Leal Filho et al., 109–22. Climate Change Management. Cham, s.l.: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

Conference and discussion papers

  • van der Straeten, Jonas. “Flows and Tensions in Imperial Networks: System-Building and Rent-Seeking the Electrification of Colonial East Africa.” International Workshop: Electrifying the World: Towards a Global History of Light and Power., 26-27 March 2018, New Orleans, USA.
  • van der Straeten, Jonas, Sebastian Groh, Setu Pelz, Alexander Batteiger, Hannes Kirchhoff, Natalia Realpe-Carillo, and Martina Schäfer. “From dualism to convergence – A research agenda for energy access.” Discussion paper of the Center for Society and Technology at University of Technology Berlin 38/201, September 2017.
  • Hermwille, Lukas, and Jonas van der Straeten. “Of Old Stories and New Lock-ins: Mapping Energy Narratives in Tanzania.” International Sustainability Transitions Conference, 25-28 August 2015, University of Sussex, UK.
  • van der Straeten, Jonas. “Legacies of a Past Modernism: Discourses of Development and the Shaping of Centralized Electricity Infastructures in Late- and Postcolonial Tanzania.” In International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure: Conference Proceedings. Edited by Tom Dolan and Brian Collins, 275–80., 2014.
  • van der Straeten, Jonas. “Electrification in Tanzania from a Historical Perspective:: Discourses of Development and the Marginalization of the Rural Poor.” In Micro Perspectives for Decentralized Energy Supply: Proceedings of the International Conference. Edited by Martina Schäfer. Berlin: Univ.-Verl. der TU Berlin, 2015.