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Arne Kaijser (born 1950) is professor of History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. He holds a M.Sc. in Technical Physics (1973), and a PhD in Technology and Social Change (1986). He worked as civil servant in the 1970s and 80s with futures studies, funding of energy research and development aid. Since 1991 he has been based at KTH and he was Chair of the Department of History of Science and Technology from1998 to 2007. He has been elected to be President of the Society for History of Technology 2009-2010.

His main research interests concern the historical development of infrastructural systems. He has studied many different kind of systems (energy systems, transportation systems, communication systems and water systems) in several countries (Sweden, Nordic countries, the Netherlands and the US). In 1993/94 he was a guest researcher at the Department of History of Technology, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, and in 2001 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT.

Arne participated in Tensions of Europe/ Inventing Europe since 1999. In the ‘exploratory phase' (1999-2005) he coordinated, with Erik van der Vleuten, the research theme ‘Networking Europe'. He was also member of the Coordinating Committee of the research program "Tensions of Europe", 1999-2005, and is at present member of the Scientific Committee of the Inventing Europe program.

Division of History of Science and Technology
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Books

• Per Högselius and Arne Kaijser, När folkhemselen blev internationell. Avregleringen i historiskt perspektiv (SNS förlag, Stockholm, 2007).

• Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser (eds), Networking Europe. Transnational Infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, 1850-2000 (Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2006).

• A. Kaijser and M. Hedin, editors, Nordic Energy Systems: Historical Perspectives and Current Issues (Canton, Mass., Science History Publications,1995).

Relevant Articles and Book Chapters

• Arne Kaijser & Erik van der Vleuten, "Prologue and Introduction. Transnational Networks and the Shaping of Contemporary Europe", in Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser (eds), Networking Europe. Transnational Infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, 1850-2000 (Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2006)

• Arne Kaijser, "Nature's Periphery. Rural Tansformation by the Advent of Infrasystems", in E.Baraldi, H. Fors and A. Houltz (eds.) Taking Place. The Spatial Contexts of Science, Technology and Business, (Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2005), pp. 151-186

• Arne Kaijser, "How to Describe Large Technical Systems and Their Changes over Time?", in G. Jönsson and E. Tengström (eds.), Urban Transport Development. A Complex Issue (Springer, 2005), pp. 12-19.

• Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser, "Networking Europe", in History and Technology Vol 21, nr 1 (March 2005), pp. 21-48.

• Anders Gullberg and Arne Kaijser, " City Building Regimes in Post-war Stockholm", in Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 11, Nr 2 (Augusti 2004) pp. 13-39.

• Arne Kaijser ,"Redirecting infrasystems towards sustainability. What can we learn from history?" in A. Biel, B. Hansson and M. Mårtensson (eds.) Individual and Structural Determinants of Environmental Practice (Ashgate, 2003), pp. 152-179.

• Arne Kaijser, "Systembuilding from below. Institutional Change in Dutch Water Control Systems", Technology and Culture, Vol 43 (2002), Nr 3, pp. 521-548.

• Arne Kaijser, "From tile stoves to nuclear plants: The historical development of Swedish energy systems" i Building sustainable energy systems : Swedish experiences, Semida Silveira, red., ( Stockholm : Svensk byggtjänst, 2001), 57-93.

• Arne Kaijser, "The Influence of Water Management on the Urban Development in the Netherlands", i Strategischer Raum - Urbanität im 21. Jahrhundert, red. M. Angélil, P. Baccini och H. Spieker (Ulm, Anabas Verlag. 2000), 40-49.

• Arne Kaijser and Joar Tiberg, "From Operations Research to Futures Studies. The Establishment, Diffusion and Transformation of the Systems Approach in Sweden, 1945-1980" in Thomas P. Hughes and Agatha Hughes eds., Systems, Experts, and Computers (Boston, MIT Press, 2000 )

• Arne Kaijser, "Striking Bonanza. The Establishment of a Natural Gas Regime in the Netherlands", in Olivier Coutard, ed., Governing large technical systems (London, Routledge, 1999), pp. 38-57.

• Arne Kaijser, "The Helping hand: In Search of a Swedish Institutional Regime for Infrastructural Systems", in Lena Andersson-Skog and Olle Krantz, eds., Institutions in the Transport and Communicatons Industries. State and Private Actors in the Making of Institutional Patterns, 1850-1990, (Science History Publications, Canton, Mass., 1999), pp. 223-244.

• Arne Kaijser, "Preparing the Ground for the Golden Age: The Development of Dutch Water Systems in the Middle Ages", in Britt Liljewall ed., Agrarian systems in early modern europe (Stockholm, Nordiska Museet, 1999), pp. 37-56.

• Arne Kaijser, "Trans-border integration of electricity and gas in the Nordic countries, 1915-1992" in Polhem: Tidskrift för teknikhistoria 15 (1997), pp. 4-43.

• Arne Kaijser, "From Slochteren to Wassenaar. The creation of a natural gas regime in the Netherlands, 1960-1963", in NEHA-JAARBOEK voor economische, bedrijfs- en techniekgeschiedenis 59 (1996) (Amsterdam: NEHA, 1996), pp. 330-363.

• Arne Kaijser, "Controlling the Grid: The Development of High Tension Power Lines in the Nordic Countries" in: A. Kaijser and M. Hedin eds., Nordic Energy Systems: Historical Perspectives and Current Issues (Canton, Mass., Science History Publications, 1995), pp. 31-54.

• Arne Kaijser, "From invention to global system", in M. Karlsson and L. Sturesson eds., The World´s Largest Machine. Global Telecommunications and the Human Condition (Stockholm, Carlssons förlag, 1995), pp. 106-138. (An english version of the previous article)

• Arne Kaijser, "Lighting and Cooking: Competing Energy Systems in Sweden, 1880-1960", in William Aspray, ed., Technological Competitiveness: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on the Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Industries (Piscataway, NJ, IEEE Press, 1993), pp. 195-207.

• Arne Kaijser, "A research approach for understanding the development of infrastructural systems", FLUX - International Scientific Quarterly on Networks and Territories, Nr 11 (1993), pp. 53-54.

• Arne Kaijser, "Obstacles to International Collaboration: the Emergence of the Nordic Power Exchange" in, M. Trédé ed., Électricité et électrification dans le monde, (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1992, pp. 275-291.

• Arne Kaijser, "Redirecting Power: Swedish Nuclear Power Policies in Historical Perspective", Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, Vol 17 (1992), pp. 437-462.

• Arne Kaijser, "From local networks to national systems: A comparison of the emergence of electricity and telephony in Sweden", in Fabienne Cardot ed., Un siécle d'electricité dans le monde, (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1987), pp. 7-22.