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Anique Hommels is assistant professor at the Department of Technology & Society Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. In her PhD thesis (2001, Maastricht University) she concentrated on the resistance to change (‘obduracy') in urban sociotechnical transformation processes. A book (Unbuilding Cities. Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change), based on her thesis, was published by MIT Press in 2005. In 2003, she was awarded the Brooke Hindle Fellowship from the American Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Hommels works on issues of standardization and vulnerability of technological cultures since 2003. In 2005, she was commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior (BZK) to monitor the final evaluation of the C2000 project (the Dutch national radio communication system for emergency services). Together with Dr. T.M. Egyedi and Prof.dr.ir. W.E. Bijker she received an NWO-grant for the project "Complex interactions between international standardization and national innovation projects" (2007-2010). Since 2007, Hommels is involved in the ESF/Eurocores project "Europe goes Critical: The emergence and governance of critical transnational European infrastructures" (2007-2009).

Department of Technology & Society Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Universiteit Maastricht
PO Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
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Scientific publications

• Hommels, A. (2008). Studying Obduracy in the City: Toward a Productive Fusion between Technology Studies and Urban Studies. In R. Fouché (Ed.), Technology Studies. Volume 2: Theorizing Technological Change (Vol. 2, pp. 291-316). London: Sage Publications.

• Lundestad, C., & Hommels, A. (2007). Software vulnerability due to practical drift. Ethics and Information Technology, 9(2), 89-100.

• Hommels, A., Peters, P., & Bijker, W. E. (2007). Techno Therapy or Nurtured Niches? Technology Studies and the Evaluation of Radical Innovations. Research Policy, 36(7), 1088-1099.

• Hommels, A. (2005). Studying Obduracy in the City. Towards a productive fusion between technology studies and urban studies. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 30 (3), pp. 323-351.

• Hommels, A. (2005). Unbuilding Cities. Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 

• Hommels, A. (2003). De (on)maakbare stad. De hardnekkigheid van het maakbaarheidsdenken in de ruimtelijke vernieuwing van de Bijlmermeer. Nieuwste Tijd. Kwartaaltijdschrift voor eigentijdse geschiedenis, 2 (7), pp. 57-67.

• Hommels, A. (2000). Obduracy and Urban Sociotechnical Change. Changing Plan Hoog Catharijne. Urban Affairs Review, 35(5), 649-676.

Professional publications

• Schueler, J. A., Fickers, A., & Hommels, A. (Eds.). (in print 2008). Arguing Norms, Bargaining standards. Negotiating Technical Standards. Den Haag: Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek.

• Hommels, A., van den Hoven, J., Nekkers, J. & Grotendorst, F. (2004). Even geduld a.u.b. De kwetsbaarheid van de informatievoorziening: oorzaken en gevolgen van verstoringen in de ICT-infrastructuur. Den Haag: Rathenau Instituut.

• Hommels, A. (2003). Book review: STS and the City. Social Studies of Science, 33(6), 945-950.

• Hommels, A. (2003). The City as Organism. Book review of "Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life" by Volker Welter. Metascience, 12, 129-131.

• Hommels, A. (2003). Boekbespreking: "Making Technology Masculine" van Ruth Oldenziel. Gewina. Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek, 26(4), 243-245.

• Hommels, A. & Hoven, J. van den (2002). Kwetsbaarheid van de informatiemaatschappij: een verkenning. Den Haag: Rathenau instituut.

• Hommels, A. (1997). Praatgroep voor N44. Omwonenden, weggebruikers, belangengroepen en technici betrokken bij problematiek drukke weg. De Ingenieur, 109(4), 17-19.

Research papers

• Hommels, A. (2007). Negotiating the Tetra standard: Complex interactions between Dutch and European Politics. Paper presented at the "Tensions of Europe" conference, Rotterdam, 7-9 June 2007.

• Hommels, A. (2006). Complex interactions between European standards and national innovation projects: the case of Tetra and the C2000 network. Paper presented at the "Tensions of Europe" conference, Lappeenranta, Finland, 25-28 May 2006.

• Hommels, A. (2005). STS and the City. Toward a productive fusion between STS and urban studies? Paper presented at the "Urban Science: Re-Negotiating the Boundaries between Science, Technology and Society?" workshop, Manchester UK, 12-14 January 2005.

• Hommels, A. (2004). STS and vulnerability research: the case of smart houses for the elderly. Paper presented at the 4S/EASST conference, 25-28 August 2004, Paris.
  

• Hommels, A. Kemp, R. Peters, P. & Dunnewijk, T. (2003). The impact of ICT on mobility and transport in the socio-economic sphere of "living". (ESTO- research paper).

• Hommels, A. (2000). Obstacles to Urban Sociotechnical Change: The Role of Obduracy in the Attempts to Redesign a City Highway (1960-present). Paper presented at the 4S/EASST conference Vienna, Austria, October 2000.

• Bijker, W., Hommels, A., & Peters, P. (1999). The ECT Delta/Sea-Land terminal - A case of container terminal automation (PROTEE project ): European Commission.

• Bijker, W., Hommels, A., & Peters, P. (1999). ETTC-project Frankfurt (Oder) - The development of a freight transport centre (PROTEE project ): European Commission.

• Bijker, W., Hommels, A., & Peters, P. (1999). Manual for the PROTEE instrument (test version) (PROTEE project): European Commission.

• Hommels, A. (1998). Obduracy and Urban Sociotechnical Change. The Spatial Renewal of the Bijlmermeer. Paper presented at the EASST conference, Lisbon, Portugal, October 1998

• Hommels, A. (1998). Obduracy and the Politics of Urban Socio-technical Change. Paper presented at the NECSTS workshop "Politics of Technology", Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 1998.

• Hommels, A. (1998). Unbuilding Cities. Transforming Obdurate Frames and Embedded Structures. Paper presented at the "Technological Futures-Urban Futures" conference, Durham, UK, April 1998.